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I guess I got an early Christmas present this year with a real highrise outside the core! I wonder if these towers will have a parkade built? I worked on the massive parkade under the Save on Foods in 2014. I believe it was also being constructed to include parking for these future towers, but I...

Completely disagree. I'm talking about LED boards seen in big cities like Dundas Square, not your local realtor's advertisement board on Mcknight! Plus you can showcase art on it as well. Calgary has the lousiest street lighting presence I've seen for such a big city and it's particularly...

The murals are starting to get played out. A big giant LED billboard on the side would've done wonders with proper advertisements (not Realtors). Given the backup on the 5th ave flyover during traffic time, it would've been a prime spot. Plus, billboards can add vibrance during nighttime.

We need to start pushing 30 storeys! Can barely differentiate some of these small towers in the distance from a large floor-ceiling midrise.

I also think we've had many opportunities taken away from us due to NIMBYism requiring heights to be lowered. Also, Denver is another sprawling North American city. Canadian cities outside of Toronto and Vancouver are starting to push for more efficient land use than our American counterparts...

I completely forgot that the height was revised down. I'd love to start seeing 30+ storey towers around Transit stations as long as they make sense and aren't finished/designed poorly, such as seen with the Hub by Banff Trail station. It would be great to see TOD high-rise nodes similar to those...

Yea, I hate to sound like a hypocrite by being a NIMBYist, but I believe the few times a project should ever be halted and reviewed is if the proposed development is atrociously designed for a prominent main street or is replacing an old heritage building. I would have zero complaints if this...

Seems like there was an expansion plan in place https://www.systemic-ai.com/lacey-court-expansion

Whats with Calgary's obession with having master plan designs where buildings are randomly oriented and placed alongside useless landscaping? Why can't we just follow the European model of a grid layout, with midrises creating a flanking wall along both sides of a street and then maybe a town...

OMG this looks like a proper Vancouver-style TOD proposal!!! 😱 Could probably add some more ground retail along the podium.

What's weirder is that they built a massive parkade in preparation for 2 more towers. I helped work on it back in 2013/14.

"Karen Pauling Shepard was one of a dozen people knocking on doors in neighbourhoods surrounding Glenmore Landing, and collecting signatures against the proposal." Oh isn't that fitting, a "Karen" being a NIMBYist.

Looks like a bunch of towers stuck on to a parking lot. For a TOD, they can do better than this. But I don't mind the density.

^ Agreed. I can't believe they didn't incorporate street retail along the LRT station. Ultimate fail IMO. This would've never been allowed in a city like Vancouver where they optimize TODs. This connects 17th Ave from the west to the east with a blank sterile wall.

Unfortunately, an average of 2-4 midrises equate to roughly one 30-35 storey tower, in terms of units, and we're definitely not building enough midrises in the inner city/downtown to make up for this ratio. I know ppl are loving the midrise momentum on the forum but in terms of providing sheer...

In the last 5-10 years, Vancouver has taken another leap in tower designs. Something like this would be an average build in metro Vancouver today. From a distance, Metro Vancouver nodes do look like a bunch of clones but I'd be so happy if we got an average 2023 Metro Van tower concept over a...

Agreed. Vinyl/hardie sidings need to be banned from midrises. Rather see a nice Stucco colour.

It's crazy how many project proposals we see in Calgary that seem to indicate they're about to take off but they just end up quietly disappearing from the limelight. Skyrise's equivalent to being blue-balled.

Exactly! It's disheartening to see proposals like Kensignton 9A, which lacks ground-level retail despite its prime location right at the doorstep of an LRT station in the heart of Kensignton. Meanwhile, the Skytrain at New Westminster station stops practically inside of a movie theatre. We just...

I still can't believe Macto has complete ownership of such a large site next to a semi-underground LRT station and hasn't done crap with it over the last decade. In these sorts of situations, a vacant lot tax needs to be hammered on. If you can't get shovels in for a high-density designated site...