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And this was a significant opportunity to change that context that was missed. It's most frustrating here because it's not an imaginary thing plopping a well designed development into the middle of nowhere. University District directly across the street proved appetite for high-density urban...

Thanks for posting - it's the row and semi-detached numbers that are most interesting to me as we are the absolute leaders there, far more if you measured per capita or as an overall rate of home production. More evidence that all the reforms for infills and incrementally higher density...

My main critique isn't about the looks of this building. My issue is that it's that it's wildly land inefficient, and unlike nearly every affordable housing projects in the country outside of Calgary - has a greater than 1 stall / unit parking ratio. These factors work together of course, but...

ah perfect - It's time for our annual hotel rumour thread bump. A proud local tradition as old as the Stampede itself.

1,200 students is bigger than I thought the SAPL program was, is there other students part of this too?

It's the kind of project that seems so obviously a decent outcome - cost-effective, dense, attractive - that you'd think we'd literally just copy-and-paste this anytime we need a new multi-family in any community.

And the 8th Street public realm upgrade starting construction this year. With all the conversions - on top of what was already the densest area of the city - it's awesome to see so much activity in one place.

I like the big shelters and don't know enough about their design to comment on the MAX-style robustness and cost-effectiveness for replacement. I am always suspicious of Calgary's fetish for angular plane-based architecture on public facility and infrastructure like bus stops, recreation...

There would be some overlap between the crew opposed to this development on grounds of traffic safety and those approved to safety improvements on 26th Avenue SW in the next couple years.

As an aside re: pipelines, I found this fascinating - although it's probably old news to the better informed: I just learned that we've done all this Canada east-west pipeline debate before, when we built the TransCanada gas pipeline in the 1950s. It's all the same debates - an economically...

Interesting update and strange communication style for Calgary Transit on the North-Central BRT projects - link here: https://www.calgary.ca/planning/projects/transit-north-central-brt.html?Location=28+Ave. Saw this under construction today, looks like a MAX-style canopy and station. But I...

These larger-scale infill projects are probably our next big planning thing to figure out. With the city getting closer to 2 million and dozens of kilometres from end-to-end, the demand of being so central will keep increasing. But each of these larger redevelopment sites have complicated (or...

Great design, especially keeping it level and with much better and wider connectivity. I love the magpie/birds water fountain - just like Berczy Park. That will be a hit with families in the summer.

Despite rhetoric often put forward by the suburban development lobbyists, I don't think the city's position has ever been anti-suburban growth in any meaningful way. "Both up and out" has been in vogue for at least 20 years. Calgary has never entertained any sense of "hard" boundary like a...

Partially, but the real recent downward pressure on oil is the new expectation of a collapse of oil demand globally triggered by the massive unilateral tariff policy of the Americans and expected counter-tariffs. Everyone is now thinking global recession is incoming and global oil prices are...

True - because of the negotiation component. The math is complex and multi-variable to estimate the costs, let alone argue the "fair" distribution of who should pay for what. It is linked into all the countless debates on standards and rules about development and services (e.g. parking...

It's part of the reason density is the suburbs have increased so dramatically - it's so expensive to build out there, density is required to go up to help pay for all the new stuff while keeping housing accessibly priced. In eras of cheaper land and greater public subsidy of suburban growth...

Like a mini Great Hall of the People:

Short answer: there is a cost sharing calculation that splits the costs between developers and the city. Longer answer: The city is responsible for the share of the infrastructure deemed to have citywide benefit while the developers are responsible for the local infrastructure and the...

I can see how we got in this mess after this conversation, naming is hard with so many options :) From my perspective, its following a rule-based approach for 95% of the system: Default should be the connecting road name (39 Ave S, Anderson, Southland etc). Exceptions should be: If some...