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Retaliatory taxes are what will costs the most. Ottawa's drunken sailor spending which proposes to compensate Canadians with tariff war rebates is going to bankrupt us as you know the revenues from the tariffs will get spend on some other pointless action. Should of just let it go. Americans...

I don't see why a barn has to be near a major transportation hub. You should be able to minimize deadheading by designing revenue generating routes for buses going in and out of service. Short turns can be used as well.

Does is it come with an elevator? I'd die before making it to the cab. Two suspended slabs and it's at grade.

Could it be fencing for constructing a sales centre? How does the progressive zoning policies apply to all the vacant properties in downtown Edmonton? Looser as of right zoning for multi-family and height is par for the course in Canada as it tries to fit in millions of new people. Zoning...

A lot of hours were spent coming up with the layout of the West District from the open spaces, the amenities and the block plans. Tripling the density of blocks to cash in on investors that don't give a shit about the community is going to have an impact. Simply abiding by taller towers are...

Population growth attracts investors. It's an endless supply of global investors with limited opportunities to invest streaming into Canada flipping over and over to each other that drives up prices. Rental income won't be a determining factor in whether to buy or not to buy. There's plenty of...

I understand the independence. Land is a much bigger investment. All repairs and maintenance is all on you. Greater upswing as well as greater risk of losses. Oil bust tanked real estate in Calgary. That's obviously behind stagnant condo values. In Toronto, a $150,000 condo from 25 years would...

Cladding aside, 29 storeys is very tall to pull off the industrial warehouse loft look.

It's all timing. Land isn't that much better or as entry level affordable.

If they can fix pricing in Southern Ontario or Greater Vancouver for 20 years than Calgary doesn't present any problems either. It's similar to a Ponzi scheme. It's just a matter of enough outside investors continually paying too much to take over control of the market. Local brokers are just...

Walled of parking is fascinating. It's progressive and also wasteful.

The building wasn't incorporated. It was demolished with only the outside facades retained for use in the new tower. Facades are the public interface so very easy and dangerous to call it preservation or retaining old buildings. In general, these retained facades are structural masonry walls...

Refurbished heritage structures should command greater rents than faux heritage fronted stucco boxes. The only reason, in my opinion, to demolish vs refurbishment is the potential of developing a high rise in its place and that's a symptom of heritage zoning. The one exception is imminent...

The apartment is laughable from the narrow layout to the two tiny windows facing a brick wall to the overlapping balconies to mooch off of neighbours.

I don't think there is another city outside of the big 3 and including the big 3 attracting as many people as Calgary is right now. It's apples to oranges. The number of units being built has to go up to maintain the growth. The 3300 units under construction could look mighty small in 10 years...

See how the university reacts to pressure from investors to build taller and denser with the boom much hotter than 5 years ago. A few more high rise plots reaching into the 20s is not what I mean. Rather the 30 to 40 tower complexes that you see proposed and built in Toronto and Vancouver.

They aren't building on spec. Most Truman developments are pre sold.

Not really. It's not 3357 units being delivered in a year. It's averages to a 1000 units per year at a time when Calgary is adding 80 to 100,000 people every year. Development is slowly catching up to the growth. 60 plus high rises under construction in the city is gonna happen if these...

It's too new to be appreciated and the suburban vibe doesn't help it either. The new development will add lots of people, integrate better with the urban fabric and be a big improvement on what's currently there. It will be a loss to those city layers and representative architecture periods.

Black and White Cookie cutter spandrel boxes. The urban form doesn't matter as the CNIB building and surface parking is in the path connecting to the community. The residences are an unknown. Nothing more to say than lost opportunity for a gateway less forgetable and the CNIB relocating to the...