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Alexandria House | 28.04m | 9s | Statesman Group
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RolleyMakr_168
New Member
Looking good. Hopefully development in Currie will continue to speed along.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
mmmmmluuurp.Curry was supposed to be an urban development! That’s what they sold it to the public as at least. Bleh. This is the same garbage - with a couple storeys tacked on top - they have in Panorama!
Note to developers: CARS CAN PARK IN THE BACK. The people in climate controlled, rolling boxes of metal can walk an extra 50 feet to a door. Pedestrian priority is what matters, the end.
artvandelay
Active Member
Looks like a project from 2004.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
The target audience thinks its an exciting, modern design. BOOMERS.
The street presence of this development is very 'business park'. As long as the reserve army unit stays in Currie the urban feel will not exist. Maybe the central parcel and the redevelopment of the piece where Wild Rose is will change that, but I don't have high hopes.
Filling in the emptiness is something of a win though.
With Crowchild and that crazy multi faceted roundabout, the Currie Barracks area, is already cut off from the inner city mojo that Marda Loop has, and has a suburban feel to it. This area could just as easily be transplanted to Midnapore and nobody would notice.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Having to drive that awful interchange almost daily, let me tell you, someone should've been fired for allowing it to go forward. Its a key lesson that I hope the city learns before doing something similar near University Drive, 16th and Crow. Someone thought they were just so clever.
(Edit: all in all, it's a weird area. There's a military museum in a community, a reserve base as a gateway to a community, a vibrant brewery beside a movie studio storage lot, all accessed by a three-roundabout interchange and its all supposed to be some exciting urban village. I'm a cheerleader for Currie and the surrounding whatever but I don't see how it gets pulled off.)
(Edit: all in all, it's a weird area. There's a military museum in a community, a reserve base as a gateway to a community, a vibrant brewery beside a movie studio storage lot, all accessed by a three-roundabout interchange and its all supposed to be some exciting urban village. I'm a cheerleader for Currie and the surrounding whatever but I don't see how it gets pulled off.)
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Alex_YYC
Senior Member
Not the best pic, but you can see the site in the foreground.
Chinese_T
Active Member
Phase 3
Habanero
Active Member
This one looks like it has a built in clinic and surgical centre.