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Anyone know what the tallest residential tower is in Calgary? How about largest overall residential development?

How long ago? I think Tollo is a brand new outfit... maybe the land was sold with design in hand? In any case, beautiful project. I think there are some amazing things happening in Calgary's infill market.

Agreed - I would imagine majority of new Calgarians are living as inner-city as they possibly can. That list posted earlier is fascinating. Would be cool to see a spreadsheet that tracks how it plays out, as well as to see # of units and rental v condo.... anyone bored? haha As Vancouver and...

Can you elaborate? Are you referring to how the building frontage is blocked off instead of integrated?

Yeah that's a great looking building. I like the rotation of each level. Too bad they couldn't eat up the one beside it, as mentioned.

It's a catch22 - people are going to be unhappy about the unattainable price, or the aesthetics. IMHO it doesn't look bad - clearly not as appealing as brick, but again, you can't necessarily have your cake and eat it too. Understanding brick is cost prohibitive, what alternatives would you...

Off-topic question for the crowd: many folks here seem to have strong opinions and are able to articulate their thoughts and feelings on whether a new project is aligning with their values. I will assume many people have an architecture and/or urban planning background, but if anyone would like...

Yeah I was referring to DT as a whole, but that is an interesting stat - where did you go to find that figure?

ASI had been actively purchasing these properties over the past 4 years, and is typically positioned as a buy-and-hold company. So you might be onto something.

Between ASI scooping up all these low rises, and the Rivers District initiation (8000 residents, 4mm ft2 commercail anticipated), there sure is a lot of density-filling speculation going on right now.

Yeah I'm curious about this too. I wonder if anything currently undeveloped is being sat-on until the RDMP gets underway (or at least reaches project definition)?