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How far is this development from the proposed "grand central station" (which, as I understand it, is proposed as a station on both the airport-downtown-banff rail project and the Calgary-Edmonton high-speed rail project)? Does this suggest confidence that one or both of those potentially...

Some renderings from the architects' website:

There are a lot of common facilities to build. Plus industrial laundry facilities, etc. This also looks to have high quality finishes, etc. It seems about right to me. I'm sure each of these rooms will generate as much or more revenue than a $1,000,000 condo being let out as an airbnb.

If it turns out like the Lego model (which is incredible btw), it will be a great addition to the neighbourhood.

Man, lots of parking lots still in this part of the Beltline...

499 feet? Oh come on... they can't tack on a one-metre tall ornamental antenna to get this thing over 500 ft?!

Looks pretty great to me.

Love it. Reminds me of one of millions of similar scale buildings in Japanese cities.

Elveden Centre is one of my favourite buildings in the entire city.

Take my money.

Fun fact: I grew up down the street from both these and the Odyssey Towers. They were obviously both neighbourhood landmarks back then.

Can't be many of those left (other than along the rail corridor of course).

The street-level design does look pretty good, and I suppose that's the most important thing. But the tower... woof!

But what an ugly building!

Oh yeah. I wasn't throwing any shade. I love that stuff. And its not like a fast food place like Koryo is pretending to be authentic Korean barbeque (or authentic Korean cuisine more generally). It is its own thing, and that's just fine.

Huh. Seems like there are far fewer locations than there used to be. The GTA is apparently now down to just the Eaton Centre location. That's too bad. I always liked it (especially their weird not-remotely-Korean orange "barbeque" sauce).

Koryo Korean is another Calgary-born fast food franchise.

I'd love it if they painted the brick (maybe white?). Still, this will be a great addition/replacement to that area of the commercial core.

The glass is good quality. Just wish there was more of it.

That video says it all. Does anyone think that (admittedly amusing in its own clown-esque way) ceremony represented the early history of the Calgary community? That's how "western heritage" is and always has been represented in Calgary. "Western heritage" is a theme park run by the Calgary Stampede.