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Agreed. To be fair, the media wants people's attention and controversy (even if mostly illusionary) helps do that.

One of the best things about Calgary building out its surface network rather than spending on burying the downtown section, is because the system was so extensive for a city Calgary's size, it was actually very useful for a large portion of the population and so really helped Calgary build a...

To be fair, when Calgary and Edmonton built their LRT systems in the early '80s, the population of both cities was some 500-600,000. That's smaller than any North American city that currently has LRT, including Kitchener-Waterloo which recently completed a small line (and theirs is more...

Very true. Ottawa-Gatineau in particular has been growing slowest out of the 6 big cities over the past few years, and I expect that to continue if Carney goes through with the cost cutting he's been talking about. Edmonton is still growing very quickly, but slowly falling further behind...

In an election year, I am surprised at the relatively small amount of grandstanding from our Council members...

Looks like they have 25 units available, which sounds like a lot, but it's a big building - 226 units.

Nice find kora! Some interesting info...our CMA currently sitting at 1,839,000 as of this year, and Census Division #6, which includes Foothills and Mountain View Counties (so roughly equal to a typical US CMA in land area) sitting at 1,958,000. These are some crazy numbers, I remember when...

It'll be nice if we can get a building to hit 70 floors...it was only a few years back we got our first 60 floor tower!

Fair point, and condo markets in particular are taking a hit across Canada, most acutely in the GTA and Vancouver. But this is first and foremost a hotel, in a market that is lacking high end hotels, presumably already with an agreement with Marriott which gives me greater hope that this one...

So, there is indeed a land use redesignation application for this one which has been submitted. It will allow up to 19.5 FAR, up from the current 12. The Applicant's Submission mentions that the DP will be concurrent, and also lists the towers as being 63 and 70 storeys in height (but no...

While many of our suburban areas are abysmally car centric and hostile to pedestrians, Calgary is extremely lucky in that out of cities in North America that only became "big cities" in the automobile era (think much of the US sunbelt), we've probably got the most successful downtown area, all...

Their DP has been released, which usually means construction is imminent. A lot of the costs associated with DP approval are triggered at the "release" stage, which is why DPs for projects that seem to be stalled (think Cidex's Elbow River towers), while approved, haven't been released yet...

The City has criteria that must be met but broadly, some form of social good or community benefit like affordable housing (AHC for example) or economic importance (Scotia Place for example).

Oxford is a pension fund, and as I have ranted about before, pension funds are ridiculously risk adverse and always seem to miss the development cycle in Calgary, so I wouldn't expect development here for a long time. Frankly I don't know why pension funds don't just sell all of their assets in...

I'm betting this one gets underway before the end of the month.

The one peoposal i was really hoping would not go ahead. I was still holding out hope that Arlington would miss the development cycle on this particular project and go back to the drawing board with something a lot better a few years down the road. Since that now appears not to be, my hope is...

It is. Part of the reason for that is the pension funds that own developers like Quadreal are incredibly risk adverse, and wait on the sidelines until the boom cycle is wrapping up, and so by the time their applications are in, demand is already drying up. This cycle appears set to repeat...

I think they may require a land use amendment to achieve the desired FAR (correct me if I'm wrong) which automatically would open the door to some level of engagement. I don't expect there will be any concerns but there might be a slight chance of some Sasso/Vetro residents being upset at...

I fully support the concerns of businesses along Stephen Ave. The two blocks west of City Hall are already a mess between the Olympic Plaza/Arts Commons construction and the Glenbow redevelopment. Tearing up Stephen Ave itself on top of all that is going to make being outside in what is...

I'm guessing (pure speculation on my part) that this project, at least in its current form, is dead. The original DP is something like 8 years old, and Cidex seems to have repositioned itself to do residential conversions and smaller projects. I'd wager we see a redesign at some point to...