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My pipe dream project when I lived in North Hill is a T-bar from a ski hill to help my ass up the hill on a bike

It is pretty dull but overall it's a good scale. Another case of concrete construction not making sense so they go for wood-frame.

Advice that i gave as a private stakeholder to the Downtown planning team at the City is that they should strongly consider policy that doesn't renew food service or retail (clothing shops, corner stores, etc.) within the Plus-15 in the new LUB update. Retail and restaurant uses belong on the...

One of the things that i have noticed in conversations around mixed-use buildings (retail podium with residential above) on rental projects is that the property management companies that would naturally buy these buildings want it to be either commercial or residential. This is leading to a lot...

Only speculating, but the chances of ownership switching to Eagle Crest Construction prob about 90%.

Concrete construction is generally too expensive to support decent margins on for-sale condo projects. Margins are too low, contingency needs to be high in an inflationary environment and timeline for construction adds to the risk. Wood-frame construction is more reasonable, so sites that are...

Good god is that the stucco colour? Lol. This is why we need Form and Character Guidelines for a proper DP submission. Then the Development Authority can at least point to some architectural and urban design guidelines so that this shit is unacceptable. This is 100% multi-gen family housing...

Good god is that the stucco colour? Lol. This is why we need Form and Character Guidelines for a proper DP submission. Then the Development Authority can at least point to some architectural and urban design guidelines so that this shit is unacceptable. This is 100% multi-gen family housing...

I've read that book and i've taken classes from Max Foran, i agree it is an excellent book. Although the Stampede Board is not the only party to blame and the City of Calgary bears as much if not more responsibility, the East Victoria Park community was razed to expand the Stampede Grounds and...

I mean, how could we possibly use the Stampede lands any better? Between the BMO, Cowboys Casino, Saddledome, Stampede lands/buildings and areas that are geared towards surface parking for those events, we've only seemingly committed about 258 acres of inner-city, riverfront land to...

It is perfect, i love Certus projects. Wish they were doing more residential projects, or even just more projects in general as they don't really miss imo

https://calgaryherald.com/business/commercial-real-estate/judge-orders-163-million-in-damages-to-developer-that-planned-to-build-rail-town-on-cpr-lands Still trying to make sense of what happened to these lands, the Court ruling is long AF...

Not sure if this is the right place to disuss this, but didn't see another thread for it. I noticed that the former Railtown site that Remington had won that $163M settlement for breach of contract for has a DP on it from the City of Calgary for what looks like a very permanent parking lot...

https://portwood.ca/umbra/ Here you go. First phase of the Portwood project in Port Moody by Edgar.

If it is wood-frame and appropriately priced, the site will happen in the short to medium term. It's the downtown and beltline sites holding out for 8-20 FAR that are priced for that, that aren't moving. If any of these surface parking lots in East Victoria Park, Beltline or Downtown were priced...

This @CBBarnett, Holding costs are very low, especially on surface parking lots and there are a lot of folks that have so much money that got into land flipping, and are so bullish on the calgary market they are willing to wait decades and decades for there payday. Crank up the costs of holding...

Build everything at 3-6 stories everywhere. It’s why there are a billion wood frame (for sale) starts in the burbs but almost no concrete for sale starts in the city. Give me inner city land and low rise prices and everything would explode if everything wasn’t being held by land speculators with...

So many cheaper, comparable resale units in Eau Claire, this seems far fetched if they are starting from a mil. You could buy a river front condo in eau claire that’s a little older and Reno it and have the same for less. I think they are not targeting the right demographic that would be...

Here are some pics of the nearly complete 33 Cordova project by Westbank in Vancouver (from Roundabout's update). This is a really good example of what i would like to see here, including the lane activation of Blood Alley and the 'mews' mid-block walkthrough. This is what i would like to see...