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It's the kind of project that seems so obviously a decent outcome - cost-effective, dense, attractive - that you'd think we'd literally just copy-and-paste this anytime we need a new multi-family in any community.

And the 8th Street public realm upgrade starting construction this year. With all the conversions - on top of what was already the densest area of the city - it's awesome to see so much activity in one place.

I like the big shelters and don't know enough about their design to comment on the MAX-style robustness and cost-effectiveness for replacement. I am always suspicious of Calgary's fetish for angular plane-based architecture on public facility and infrastructure like bus stops, recreation...

There would be some overlap between the crew opposed to this development on grounds of traffic safety and those approved to safety improvements on 26th Avenue SW in the next couple years.

As an aside re: pipelines, I found this fascinating - although it's probably old news to the better informed: I just learned that we've done all this Canada east-west pipeline debate before, when we built the TransCanada gas pipeline in the 1950s. It's all the same debates - an economically...

Interesting update and strange communication style for Calgary Transit on the North-Central BRT projects - link here: https://www.calgary.ca/planning/projects/transit-north-central-brt.html?Location=28+Ave. Saw this under construction today, looks like a MAX-style canopy and station. But I...

These larger-scale infill projects are probably our next big planning thing to figure out. With the city getting closer to 2 million and dozens of kilometres from end-to-end, the demand of being so central will keep increasing. But each of these larger redevelopment sites have complicated (or...

Great design, especially keeping it level and with much better and wider connectivity. I love the magpie/birds water fountain - just like Berczy Park. That will be a hit with families in the summer.

Despite rhetoric often put forward by the suburban development lobbyists, I don't think the city's position has ever been anti-suburban growth in any meaningful way. "Both up and out" has been in vogue for at least 20 years. Calgary has never entertained any sense of "hard" boundary like a...

Partially, but the real recent downward pressure on oil is the new expectation of a collapse of oil demand globally triggered by the massive unilateral tariff policy of the Americans and expected counter-tariffs. Everyone is now thinking global recession is incoming and global oil prices are...

True - because of the negotiation component. The math is complex and multi-variable to estimate the costs, let alone argue the "fair" distribution of who should pay for what. It is linked into all the countless debates on standards and rules about development and services (e.g. parking...

It's part of the reason density is the suburbs have increased so dramatically - it's so expensive to build out there, density is required to go up to help pay for all the new stuff while keeping housing accessibly priced. In eras of cheaper land and greater public subsidy of suburban growth...

Like a mini Great Hall of the People:

Short answer: there is a cost sharing calculation that splits the costs between developers and the city. Longer answer: The city is responsible for the share of the infrastructure deemed to have citywide benefit while the developers are responsible for the local infrastructure and the...

I can see how we got in this mess after this conversation, naming is hard with so many options :) From my perspective, its following a rule-based approach for 95% of the system: Default should be the connecting road name (39 Ave S, Anderson, Southland etc). Exceptions should be: If some...

We always hear about timelines and delay being a pain point and ultimately a cost driver for housing. Would be interesting to know what these guys did that let them go so fast.

IMO, the Bankview to Downtown angle is the best "big city" angle - so many layers of buildings and great depth in the skyline with no gaps or abrupt breaks like some of the more popular viewpoints on the east and north sides. Sleeper hit for most "urban" view corridor to downtown.

Poll after poll were and are telling the Conservatives to pivot but they are taking too long and failed to recognize (or unwilling to recognize) when most Canadians think of the economy - now see Trump, tariffs and annexation as the #1 economic issue by a mile now as of about January. All the...

I was wondering about this perspective that PP's economic policy (and ability to deliver it) are better. Is there a single place where the 2025 current conservative's economic policy proposals are listed? Elections move pretty fast, but I actually can't find anything that summarizes all these...

I'd love Calgary Transit to do three things about naming and branding. Perhaps use the Green Line as the pilot for overall reform: Move away from the long conjoined station names - "Grand Central Station / Event Centre" should be "Central" or "East Village" or "Exhibition" - whatever, just...