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Bertie Wooster mentioned something about phase 2 going ahead.

Can we say the Flames are done? Sure looks that way.

Turnstiles would help, the question is, would they help enough to be worth the money? In all cities, where they have turnstiles, there are always people who jump them, or get through somehow, but it would reduce the number of people who do, and also make it easier for security to control those...

Gravity does solid work, so here’s hoping for a good design.

A plot twist in a Greek Tragedy Play.

Overall a very good project on a lot that was wasting away. Not only new density to the area, but new life on a heritage home.

Is the field house essentially a new stadium or is it something different?

I’ll agree that 5/1’s are generally boring, but what reasonably affordable housing isn’t these days? Are high rises or single family homes any less boring? I like the 5/1 and would be okay with more of them. The large 5/1s in the burbs that take up a whole block are not as nice, but they do a...

They’ll lease out eventually, but it’ll take some time due to 9th being such a car sewer wasteland.

That sucks, I have a feeling one of the city’s highest profile intersections is getting stuck with another surface lot. 😕

Surreal places covered it best, it’s not a case of wealth but where that wealth has been focused. Calgary and the other major cities in Canada are wealthy cities by world standards. I don’t agree with all of the ways the wealth has been put to use, but Calgary’s a wealthy city nonetheless.

Yes!

I don’t remember the name but it’s some sort of seniors home.

Agreed. Adjusting the tax inequity isn’t the cure all, but at least it helps. I would prefer not to subsidize inner city development, but rather adjust the taxes so they’re based more on usage rather than market value. In a roundabout way this would promote inner city development without...

Agree. Having kids for sure changes things, that’s why downtown residents are mostly young singles, young couples or empty nesters. My son wanted to take the LRT as he had never been on it. We took the free fare zone from the library to Kerby station and back. In the short time we did that we...

I will add my two cents on the whole ‘Mount Royal’ conversation. Well, I agree, and enclave close to downtown full of large single family homes is not very efficient, and would definitely be a good spot for multi family development, I am OK with it as long as it’s only a few neighbourhoods. A...

I think we should take the topic of poverty out of this conversation. I agree wholeheartedly, that there is an issue with poverty, and should easily be a whole other thread discussion . For this particular discussion about taxation and density, it’s about what parts of the city are the most...

This. The city says they are trying to control sprawl and encourage density, but their tax system says otherwise.

I’ve seen that also, somewhere that people were saying, the estimates were actually more accurate. Might’ve been on SSP, can’t remember. The thing with the census is I think they can be out by 2.5% or something which for Calgary could be 40,000 people. I’ve known people in Calgary, who didn’t...

Calgary’s population is exploding right now, and university district has good momentum, it would make sense to start this project.