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Ya, my bad i don't really mean cap height, i mean don't give away too much FAR for every situation. I don't think that we should limit heights as that doesn't allow for things like better ceiling height in the unit or taller buildings if people so choose. In the Victoria Park example what i am...

Those are all cool examples! I like towers as much as the next guy, but it takes certain circumstances to make them happen in large, sustained numbers like in Vancouver and Toronto. All i'm suggesting is we take a more Montreal approach to creating density, i think it would improve our urban...

Concrete for-sale towers still don't provide the appropriate return needed to overcome the direct construction costs associated with them. Averaged out, 6-storey wood-frame is ~$407.50psf, a point power would average ~$477.50psf. Based on some of the recent asking prices for tower sites, i...

My guess is that the parcel is going to be a for-sale project. Rental projects are fine to go with the lower parking ratio (0.5 or 0.625 per unit), but on for-sale projects market expectation is more geared towards 1 stall per unit. My guess is that factored into the decision.

My guess is that the parcel is going to be a for-sale project. Rental projects are fine to go with the lower parking ratio (0.5 or 0.625 per unit), but on for-sale projects market expectation is more geared towards 1 stall per unit. My guess is that factored into the decision.

You're definitely right, i am unsure of ownership arrangements for the lots.

Another City related item: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-looking-to-free-up-more-surplus-land-for-affordable-housing Basically admin report to council that said they don't really have land to build affordable housing. How do they not see the opportunity in converting CPA...

In a perfect world, this and the CBE site would be perfect for a downtown university campus with a lot of integrated student housing and amenities.

I am on the edge of my seat to see what they rename the 'Public Realm Setbacks' table in the current LUB that they directly ported over from 'Road Widening Setbacks' from 2P80 LUB. Anyone have any guesses what they will rename the road widening setbacks that will 100% make it into the LUB...

Requires a 5.182m "public realm" setback (read Road Widening Setback grandfathered from 2P80). Cause we can all agree i am sure that Macleod Trail in the Beltline should maintain its sidewalk widths and could use more space for car travel lanes, can't we?

God I love this scale and form. Give me these everywhere.

I was looking at the lots on the north side of this site, but both sides have the same problem really. Lots of grade to work with on the back side of the sites along Mission Road

I see what you mean and don't neccessarily disagree. I think the public funding is best spent on executing on major public realm improvements to make the neighbourhood more attractive for residential redevelopment scenarios. As it stands the downtown revitalization plan is so vague and devoid of...

This. I would be very surprised if you weren't correct. I don't think Grosvenor has an appetite to build high-rises in Calgary anymore, and i would be willing to bet they may have not received the bids they wanted in the previous offering they had in 2019 probably because of demo costs on the...

Mission Road has a bit of traction with the Co-op land and this if that is the case. I looked at the land assembly on the north side of Mission Road that was available (maybe still is), but it the site kind of sucks. with the slope of the site and the prescriptive DC zoning only allowing ~5...

I don't know much about Ocgrow, hoping they have a strong enough construction team locally to execute on this project. I wonder if they need a builder partner to execute on it? If so they should put out an RFP to JV on the site.

Trying to sign up in the builder portal for updates, but it's giving an error (for anyone on here that might be connected with it could fix it). i would guess that builders will pick up individual lots and possibly exercise future options on other lots if they allow it. I wouldn't expect a lot...

I’ll take 5 over 1´s over towers everyday of the week. Here is my favourite one right now completed in San Francisco recently: https://themadelon.com/gallery/

That is a good question! I don't know why they don't create a standard for roads here. Basically all of the streets in the Downtown and Beltline are oversized and one-way because the original intention of the Plus-15s was to turn our Avenues into freeways and that spilled over to the Beltline...

My presumption is that Strategic needed to sell UPTEN (the project they had on Macleod Tr S and 10 Ave) and other assets to sell to investors and have more capital to complete The Barron with that money raised News Article (assuming they needed to wait for restructuring to be cash flow positive...