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This one will be great - boring, functional high density urbanism. Doesn't need to be sexy, just needs some scale to kick-start a market for apartments in this area. This is a perfect project to do so as a kick-start. Eventually I want to see Calgary Transit reverse it's trends of...

Housing supply is a cumulative exercise because even at very fast growth rates most houses already exist. Montreal doesn't build a ton of low-rise anymore, but they also don't have much land left and the economics that produced their plex system of small apartment blocks has changed dramatically...

Heritage has got to be one of the wilder bus loop designs we have - it's clearly been reorganized a few times and and has lost a ton of it's coherence about what is going on, at least visually. I had to look up the map to guess what all the loops and roads were supposed to be for: That whole...

It's all debatable, but underground is probably the best option on most dimensions apart from cost, but its outrageously expensive so trade-offs are required. Elevated makes sense in this context and gives many of the same benefit at an expected lower cost. Of course, "expected lower cost" is...

It's a tricky one - at crux of the problem, CAs and communities are simply too small to be effective at representative decision-making on most issues. 90% of communities do not have enough population to generate enough volunteers to have a self-sustaining infrastructure and consensus building...

Puts modern era 12 storey proposal in Bankview or a 19 storey proposal in Marda Loop into perspective for sure.

I find it interesting when a developer really centralizes their efforts to a single corridor or area to legitimately try to change it. Kind of makes sense so they can benefit from their cumulative investment and understanding of the hyper-local market. There's probably others, but it seems like...

Perhaps I have forgotten just because the renovation has been going on for so long - is there any numbers or metrics about what the key differences between the previous Glenbow and the new one are? I recall discussion on how the renovation is opening things up and creating new exhibition space...

I think investing in frequency helps here a lot, perhaps even more than additional security in some cases. Just having more buses and trains out there spreads people out - it means fewer people are likely to be stuck on the same vehicle as the occasional person with anti-social behaviour. It...

Looks great - a surprisingly neat, almost invisible, infill. Does anyone know what the floor plate actually looks like? Seems so narrow and tiny, must only be a few rooms per floor?

191 units so 250 to 300 people? All within 100m of existing retail with giant sidewalks and quality public realm. From that perspective it's a slam dunk. Eventually when a popular area loses it's "new and shiny" vibe - they almost all do eventually - it's these 250 or 300 people that will...

Yeah a bit, and while remaining critical of the suburban office development schemes generally, at least Quarry Park is still very much within a major city - your example is one of those ex-urban Severance-style office complexes must be next to impossible to repurpose or lease again!

Quarry Park has become a pretty textbook example on pros and cons of the 1990s suburban office park scheme, particularly when a single anchor tenant plays such an out-sized role. Their headquarters would be a huge hole to fill, probably not realistic in today's economy for a long while (now a...

Yeah, a longer growing season is awesome .... but you need water to actually grow stuff (and live). This is the next record I have my eyes on: Calgary on track to see its driest September in more than 100 years We haven't gotten more than 0.5mm of rain in day since mid August. It's lucky July...

Here's another similar threshold that illustrates the warming local climate, particularly at nights in the summer - most days over 10 degree minimum. Despite no real notable really hot heat waves, 2025 still made it to the new record. All of the top 5 are in the last 5 years, 9 of the top 10...

I think this is one of the more noticeable climate change impacts. Over the past 30 years Calgary's growing season has extended 2 to 4 weeks on average, the really extreme years are already pushing beyond that. That's an extra month of growing. That's such a change that's it's readily...

Another interesting factoid from https://www.reddit.com/r/CalgaryWxRecords/ . Longest streak of above 4 degrees in history, pushing 120+ days. We might test this low tonight or tomorrow, but if it doesn't drop too low, the forecast shows we have a good 7 to 10 more days at least - might...

I also like how unusual this development would be if it was built today. It's so simple, take a standard 25-foot residential lot and build a big box with 100% site coverage. It's like a FAR of 14. Built in the early 1980s, this was constructed on blocks with single family homes still...

TOD conversations seem to get bogged down in a scarcity mindset - there's endless debates on which ones are the priorities, which ones are the best, we can't possibly have them all. I'd say let them all rip! Unleash the TODs! While site-specific constraints, marketability and infrastructure...

To some extent, economic diversity is a product of metropolitan size in a open, market economy. While the "lead" primary industries are great things and get all the attention (Calgary/Alberta's historical obsession on O&G is best example of this), huge swathes of economic activity come from more...