17th Ave Mixed Use | 23m | 6s | Porte | Gravity Architecture

[MichaelS]

This one was shared by @Albertasaurus in the general thread, but the DP drawings are now posted:

DMap

DMap

dmap.calgary.ca

I think this is the first project for Porte in Calgary, who are out of the Vancouver area I think. They have also purchased one of the parcels in Currie Barracks that were meant to go to Bosa apparently.

 

[badc0ffee]

The land use redesignation for this one goes before CPC on January 23.

It's bizarre to me that you can't already build this kind of thing at this location.

 

[konradiical]

I like it! We need more stuff on that part of 17th as it is sorta a dead zone between the train station and where it gets busy. This, Soverign, Nest (sorta) and Humpy Hollow redesign will be a good start. That massive lot between 2nd and 1st street needs to get something going soon tho as it is a massive plot of land on Calgary's most popular street

 

[Surrealplaces]

Looks like we both added the same project. I deleted mine, so we are back to one in the database

 

[MichaelS]

Woops, sorry. I didn't check the map to see if there was a thread already.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Woops, sorry. I didn't check the map to see if there was a thread already.

All good. There wasn't a thread or project setup yet, but me and Badcoffee created a project at the same time, so the map was showing two in the same location.

 

[bgarneau]

The land use redesignation for this one goes before CPC on January 23.

It's bizarre to me that you can't already build this kind of thing at this location.

You can build this size/density by rights, but they are doing a DC - my guess is there are so many bylaw relaxations it was easier to wrap them all into a DC. Having suit access from both sides (17th and 18th) while still allowing for parkade ramp (at a mid block parcel) caused the building to be on a skew/slant and I can only imagine how many minor bylaw changes that caused. Awesome having residential activation both sides though

 

[MichaelS]

The land use for this one goes to CPC this Thursday:
Report, background, Applicant Submission, CA Letter of Support