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So the first commercial project in the 'Village Centre' consists mostly of: Gas station with drive-through carwash Drive-through A&W Drive-through Starbucks Drive-through bank Drive-through restaurant (hopefully McDonald's -- there's been one announced, but it's not in the DP plans, so that...

The minimum stations would be Westbrook, Foothills, U of C and Brentwood. An expanded set of stations could include University District/ACH, Parkdale, Spruce Cliff. So 4 attendants minimum, up to 7 total. The route 9 takes 34 mins to go from Westbrook to Brentwood; add in a 6 minute...

I think the building catalogue is a good idea (as mentioned, derisk developments -- especially for newer/smaller builders but also in smaller markets where missing middle units aren't going up all the time). And there's a lot of good in them; a good mix of bedrooms, accessible ground-floor...

Peak "We have Copenhagen at home" energy.

Peak "We have Copenhagen at home" energy.

The obvious place is by the Firestone tower; LRT station adjacent, you don't necessarily need to dig deep into the soil for an amphitheatre, sunset view of the downtown and mountains would make concerts amazing, and if you could develop acoustics so the sound goes west, then it's 900m of...

That road is in a trench. It takes about 60-70m of horizontal space to provide enough elevation to cross over a road, while still being passable to pedestrians. It's 40m from the building to 6th Ave, so we'd need to trench 6th as well as make the entire public space into a sloped bridge access...

What I noticed in mine was Canadian flags almost entirely just next to store-brand products (which give them higher profits). There were flags next to a box of tea that I'm pretty sure wasn't grown in Canada's vast tea plantations, and that said nothing of provenance more than "produced for...

I haven't updated these in a while; here's the monthly pax numbers versus a pre-covid trend projection including seasonality and linear growth: International has been the big success, with a lot more summer traffic than the prepandemic trend - more even travel year-round; on the other...

First the practical parts - it has to be in an industrial area. A bus barn is a maintenance facility and a fuelling station, meaning inevitably fuel spills and various other chemicals. It also needs roads engineered to handle substantial heavy traffic, and it makes a bad neighbour; who would...

Looked great at sunset yesterday evening.

This is in the Route Ahead report; the downtown bus barns have about 15% of fleet capacity (courtesy cptdb.ca), with 10% of the capacity at Anderson colocated with the LRT barn, 35% of the capacity at Spring Gardens 10 min from downtown at 32nd Ave NE, and 40% of the capacity is the new Stoney...

I did a deep dive on this a while ago in a different thread; the quick answer is a reasonable estimate is that as of 2021 about 7.3% of Calgary's jobs seem directly tied to oil and gas, down from more like 10% 25 years earlier. I've since played around with some updated estimates of excess...

The other locations with my assumptions on the land (as well as the Mission Rd site above and the Boro Block site) 1406 26th St. S.W. Onward Home Society 320 15th Ave. N.E. Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary 299 Erin Woods Dr. S.E. (portion - I assume next to the arena) Siksika Off...

Bus route 26 doesn't go through the development, it stops on the extreme east end; 1250m from the existing townhomes, 1600m from the 500 apartments to be built on the west end. Route 108 actually passes through the development. The bus runs every half hour and takes 18 minutes from this area to...

I looked at this some time ago; I can't remember if this is 2016 or 2021 Census data tbh. Anyways, here's the population within 400m actual walk distance and within 400-800m walk distance of various main streets in Calgary; Marda Loop is ~11K or so within 800m. The one note I'd have is that...

The first alternative seems to me to have been rejected on absolute bogus grounds. The existing LRT routinely drops into tunnels with much less than 1km; the clearest is just west of Lion's Park station where 14 Ave is crossed completely at grade, and the train is under 16th Ave about 150m...

Yeah, it doesn't look great. And the heights of the track are probably too high. (which actually reduces the visual impact of the tracks.) But what do you think it would look like? Obviously, for a mere $2.5M we can't expect AECOM to do renderings, but I think there is some onus on the proponent...

The building is fine, but I wish that this dishonest architectural practice would be banned: This is only the perspective from the southwest corner if you are on 30 foot stilts, or if you've climbed up to the top of the light standard. This is what the Scotiabank looks like from the SW corner...