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This one is coming along nicely. This is a sizeable amount of retail and some attention to detail to allow for a larger, street-facing patio/restaurant. Grows Marda Loop main street by another half-block and a dozen(?) more retail spots. Keeps the area moving up in the rankings of the city's...

It's the bicycle equivalent of randomly removed all road line paint and randomly change the amount of lanes down on Deerfoot and Crowchild from 5 lanes wide to 2 and back again in a 100m stretch. And not just a random spot, probably the single highest traffic spot in the whole citywide network...

Agreed - it's an awkward pinch-point. The new river pathway sections are usually pretty good, but they all often have this same weakness - where the whole exercise is one of environmental design rather than one of active transportation. I get the push is always this public "gathering space"...

There's tons of way smarter people that can talk through risk-transfers and procurement models and how they inflate costs for transit, but on the scope creep side of the physical infrastructure there's always lots of grey area that can easily blow up the cost - or at least not fully account for...

And the Blue Line is a pretty good design, but had is own issues. Here's a public audit done after construction finished, that has some interesting details - some unique, some consistent - with other projects. It didn't seem like a cheap time to build back then, but it certainly looks cheap now...

Someone could probably have written a really niche and monthly blog for 2 decades on the Green Line projects to track all the plot twists and turns. TL/DR: I think the "green line" project was first identified in the 1990s as a transit corridor, but then got serious in the 2010s when the real...

North end of downtown has always struggled as a speculative office building district, parking of the speculative parking lot "ring" of the office core. Inflated and distorted expectations based on a 1980s office model really messed with the area's developability. As things change there's lots...

Oh yeah I wasn't going for accurate to scale. I'd imagine any height would be met with resistance given the context. But its all part of maturing into a big city. It shouldn't be surprising to see proposals for 13 storey buildings popping up from time to time in areas that aren't used to see...

Interesting one to watch if something real actually comes from this - 13 stories would be big for the area, but we are only talking about 25m from 14th Street, 700m from 17th Ave. It's out of scale for existing, but hardly in the middle of nowhere. From the 14th side it's far less dramatic...

This is the type of thing they usually publish ahead of time for feedback, or at least - but it's a Stampede/Event Centre project so information sharing about designs, costs and anything else aren't often a primary goal. Has any details ever been provided on design? 4 lanes? 2 lanes? Pathway...

Very cool - thanks for sharing MichaelS! Will be interesting to watch the lifecycle of this grass roof at a wild sloped angle. Very cool and got some developer money backing, but tricky spot to grow grass!

I find the industrial growth discussion fascinating in it doesn't get as much attention as the mixed use and residential stuff. I always wondered if this is really a problem to lose industrial market share to Rockyview and, more importantly, is there anything we can actually do about it? A...

I agree we can "step things up" and should be devoting more resources to the myriad of contributing factors here - housing affordability, mental health support, poverty reduction initiatives, security and policing of drug dealers and the drug supply itself. The problem as always is that the...

It's fascinating watching them incrementally create this weird, small-format retail hub along the street. Really nicely done. Would be awesome to see other communities get into this and try to make a go of their own. The only thing I can think of that's close to what Leonard is doing is some of...

It's about 100x less people than Hastings and Main, but your point is still valid. Obviously not ideal to have so much anti-social stuff occurring in a specific area. One of the weird parts about Chumir - and many of our health centres for that matter - they have closed doors and cut-off...

Really too bad there's no mechanism to close the NB Sarcee Road to EB 33 Ave channelized slip lane here and move everything closer to the curb, while applying a more "main street" design with retail and sidewalk integration. It's going to haunt us forever that we decided to have this bizarre of...

Yeah - I feel it's a typo or conflation of Truman's overall investment deal in the area in the press release. For example, the Dorian was probably the last hotel of this scale built new in the core and was $110M, 27 floors, 308 rooms (2022).

Yes! This will be a bit of tangent, but signal timing is central to this site's "close to everything yet isolated completely problem". Long signal phases is one of those small anti-pedestrian things that Calgary does that isn't that common in other cities. Combined with generally unpleasant...

There's got to be some conflating on both the investment level and the room numbers between this project and Truman's overall plans in the area I don't think a 13 storey hotel of this size can fit 330 rooms, nor does it cost $330M to build. The Dorian is about 30 storeys and has about 300 rooms...

Looks cool - seems a bit small to fit the 320 units they are suggesting, though. Is that a typo or does the 320 units include the other proposed tower too?