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Between this one, Lincoln, Park Central II, and the renovated IBM building, it's going to be quite an upgrade for that 3-block stretch of 11 ave. Edit: Forgot to add Imperia as well.

How, specifically, do you know that 18 students are "international"?

Let's please keep white replacement theory off this message board, thanks. Also, please note that people here on student visas (or any other temporary visa) are not immigrants and have little to nothing to do with immigration policy. If you're going to make these xenophobic comments, you could...

Has anyone checked to see if this NIMBY hall-of-famer has reemerged among all the hubbub over this development? https://x.com/CBCCalgary/status/702567865094950912

"Vinyl Village" would be an appropriate nickname for Calgary, replacing the outdated moniker "Sandstone City".

Has there been any measured improvement on the Crowchild after those upgrades were completed? I drive over that bridge almost everyday and I don't notice much of a change. One of the main problems with growing road capacity, is that it just shifts bottlenecks rather than removing them. Yes...

The main difference is that, in Toronto, these types of projects are being built in places like Kennedy and the 401, where you've doomed residents to a 2h+ commute everyday and a 20 minute walk along a stroad to the nearest shopping mall. By contrast, this development is only 3 stops on the BRT...

That TransAlta bunker is one of my most hated buildings in the city, mostly because of how badly it destroys the otherwise vibrant stretch along 1st street to the south. I always wished it would be demolished, but didn't think it would actually happen. I do like the modernist tower on the east...

Hopefully this project proceeds smoothly. A lot this size sitting empty on 33 ave would be a huge setback for Marda Loop. Another massive lot was just cleared between 21 and 22 streets (former RNDSQR development). And two smaller lots just to the east that have sat empty or unfinished for years...

One way around this is to encourage buildings designed in ways that anticipate residential-to-retail conversion at the ground level, and also to make such conversions a lot easier from a zoning/permitting standpoint. A lot of really successful neighbourhoods not only have street-level retail...

Gotta say I find it hard to muster the same level of excitement for these “paint a parking lot” projects that I had 3 or 4 years ago. I think you should have to actually plant something in the ground before you get to call it a “park”.

I'm in Ontario right now and everyone I mention this to just laughs. They basically see Smith's claims about how much money Alberta can pull out of the CPP as being on the same level of Trump claiming that Mexico was going to pay for the US to build a border wall.

For such a prominent corner of the city, this building has a really terrible street-level interface. Look at all the giant blank walls and the concrete planters. At ground level, it looks like the kinds of things that were built in the Beltline in the 70s and 80s. If this design gets approved...

Ooof... The office to residential conversions are not going to be friendly to the architecture of this city.

We're reaping what was sowed 30 years ago when the Feds and Provinces completely abandoned housing. And, relatedly, municipalities turned to commercial real estate development as a source of revenue due to Provincial cutbacks and the desire to keep residential property taxes extremely low.

Good God! Someone send this to the woman who runs the McMansion Hell blog! I’d love a piece-by-piece dissection of everything that makes it truly horrible.

So, in the 1990s they actually had a reproduction of the fort itself? What happened to it?

None of the buildings you mentioned are olde tymey or themed. They all just use architecture that was contemporary at the time they were built. Eau Claire was designed around a mishmash of theme park-style restaurants, including the Hard Rock Cafe, that faux-50s diner, the Barley Mill (complete...