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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?

It's a bit of how you look at it. I have shared this before, but think it's a good one. Number of days per year with highs above 30: The top 3 years were all in the past 5 years: 2021 = 21 days 2022 = 17 days 2024 = 16 days Of those years, none had a 30 degree day in May. I think we have to...

Also might have something to do with the seasonal expectations: 30+ degrees in late May is not unheard of, but is 10+ degrees above normal averages.

Wide spread urban style 6 storeys have many advantages and are a good strategy. The problem is the "wide spread" part. Until very recently with the main street upzoning and the latest local area plans, 6 storeys were few and far between, almost nowhere would support them. We are now seeing a...

How can these both be true at the same time? Does the "limit on market demand" mean that if one tower is approved then 40 other developments don't happen? If that's the case, wouldn't that mean less pressure to turn over smaller-scale and fine-grained areas for towers? Empirically, the...