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God this is beautiful.

Office (NW) is glass boxy, looks like a curtain wall. Has two different glass styles it looks like (north and south). First looks uber transparent, with a slight blue tinge and goes up two stories more, other is more green, with differently coloured glass "(slightly lighter than base glass)...

It's pretty neat. 4 towers. One is an office. Nice little courtyard between them all.

The whole question of density, growth and planning is a very complicated one, and not one you can just lazily make broad assumptions and point out random facts about. Richard White does that in spades. Comparing different municipalities, census metropolitan areas or built up areas is fraught...

Ugh. Richard White is just not a good writer, and a much worse researcher. The "math" he does is full of really broad, and poorly researched assumptions . "I made a broad guess that 70% of births happen in newer neighbourhoods." Why this number? "90% of deaths each year are from developed...

Probably 7 years ago. Just the rezoning.

So great to see this happening. I worked on this a LONG time ago, so it is good to see it come to fruition.

Multifamily over supply is a suburban phenomena. Vacancy rates in the Beltline are incredibly low.

Isn't this the parcel where that NORR project with the Save-On foods went? Or am I confused.

Vacancy for newer condos is at 2.6% in the Beltline. Calgary has 2.6 units of purpose built rental per 100 people, compared to 4.9 and 4.2 in Toronto and Vancouver. Calgary grew by 21,000 people last year, Beltline by 1,668 and the entire Centre City by 2,242. Beltline has had an average yearly...

I don't think this is the actual design. This may have been Urban Agency's proposal for it. If I am not mistaken, this is already under construction (not this design).

There's a moose!

My experience in commercial retail real estate is limited, but $120 psf seems out of this world expensive. Few spots on 17th avenue get even close to that high. As I understand, rent works out to about 7%-10% of gross sales. That means these places are estimating $1200 to $1700 of sales per...

That's gotta be yearly. That is almost $100/ft2 a year. Chinook doesn't even get that high. $8.14 psf is low for retail, but it fits in considering what the level of fixturing, etc is.

You're fun.

What criteria did you use to define "core" areas in each City respectively? Are you using particular neighbourhoods within a certain distance of the CBD? Are the areas you have established a similar sized area (not in population but in land area) compared to the city as a whole? For the total...

I've lost you.

In fairness, the City had to upgrade the water line, (sewer maybe) so since they were ripping up the street, might as well fix the street as well. That doesn't mean that 10th avenue doesn't need some mad love. I agree it could have been more bold. Monteal is redoing St. Catherines and they are...

This is just weird statistics. Yes, the Centre City doesn't include a majority of the 25-34 year olds, is that the point? I'm not sure. Since 2009, Centre City has grown by 9,693 people. That is an increase of 29%, and a growth rate of 2.84% per year. The City as a whole grew up 215K people in...

Thanks!