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Got together with a few of the development dork friends today to tour this area - it's so gorgeous in person. This little townhome district is incredible, I hope this design can be enabled in the City's new H-2 zone, it would be great to see some 4-storey construction like this more often. They...

Is it typical to see a crane up on a 6 storey project? I wonder if they've just hit an economy of scale inflection point, where they can just keep a crane or two running all the time - helps pump out even these shorter projects a lot quicker.

You guys are totally allowed to have personal aesthetic opinions and all, but I would hope they come along with more intellectual honesty. "We need to design a street interface that is both active and sensitive to the heritage architecture of the area, through a well-designed podium with CRUs...

Surely the boards on 7th show they're looking to move on it sometime soon? Interest rates are going down though so no incentive to do it quick > do it right. Maybe we'll see them come back with a 300+, given it sounds they were ready for a 282. Hopefully with a better podium, and better usage of...

Would be excited to see a more detailed floorplan on this. Hopefully the businesses on that block get to stay, and it's not just the facade being transferred over. Likewise, it would be great to utilize the space on 7th for small CRUs. This project is definitely gonna be make-or-break on...

Just to really drive the point home... I struggle to see how this is anymore 'oppressive' on Stephen Ave's street feel than Bankers' Hall. Funnily enough, this building is basically right at home, with widths that almost exactly match that of the surrounding Telus Sky, Brookfield, and other...

Also... BIOCUBE ROOM?

Happy to supply the model file to anyone who'd like to play around with it, maybe add some more detail, experiment with materials?

I'm not convinced that this is a bad proposal at all. Most of our Downtown's towers are more or less the same scale and blockiness. Bankers Hall fronts onto Stephen Ave and nobody complains about that? I put together a quick scale model based on the drawings earlier in the thread, and checked...

Why are we entertaining this "above ground kills business" argument anyway... this is a complete distraction. Has anyone seen any studies on the topic? Are we just assuming based on vibes? This argument feels so ridiculously forced, and I doubt anybody had any aesthetic preference one way or...

Ya think... Look at the alignment for the Blue Line expansion (at the current moment at least, we could advocate for better). Just totally avoids all of this, and goes out towards low-density sprawl and a private school. I get the feeling that our Administration are prioritizing "future...

The design on this isn't even bad. There's a lot of merit in doing the simple stuff right. It's basic, but it's refined. That podium is hot too. Lighten up y'all.

Chinook Area LAP final draft available to the public, will probably be accepted early next year. https://engage.calgary.ca/chinook

I don't disagree, but what you're really advocating for here is a complete rejigging of the Land Use Redesignations process. Either we can just accept that Land Use Districts don't tell you very much about the development, start applying them proactively, and then having a more fulsome DP...

is there such a thing as "LinkedIn Official"?

Was confused by the geometry of this at first, since these long-edge rowhomes tend to only produce 4 units, while this one has 8. Looks like the lot depth is ~30ft more than typical -- the setback and lack of garage squeeze in another couple units. Bonkers. Would love to see some bike lanes on...

This is going to be so beautiful, a great focal point for the community of Bridgeland, and a continuation of a positive trend of investment for them. A little frustrating that it's some faceless Loblaws subsidiary corpo. Here's hoping Bridgeland Market and Lukes don't struggle in the face of...

Development doesn't just increase property value for the one property. We're talking about a rapid diversification of the entire downtown area. Call it the expense the City is liable for given their shoddy land-use planning when most of the Downtown was being built out, it's an investment that...

No way y'all..... It just cant go like this.... We gotta make grey spandrel illegal

Just some blue-check philosophers found their way to the forum, extremely predictable discourse to follow. I do really hope we see something North of Stephen Ave in Downtown during my lifetime, but the public realm down there needs some serious remediation work before it's livable enough to...