Mintoft Place | 14m | 4s | Cedarglen | NORR

Is it just me or does this look like a condo version of the previous trailer park? I also get commie block ghetto vibes. The bowling lane road with weird pseudo yard lawns looks so depressing. Wouldn’t it make more sense to add some towers and mixed use amenities like they’re doing around COP? At least make it a mini destination or self sufficient node?
 
Ramsayite said:
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With a pathway connection you could walk or bike to Ikea or Walmart. 😂

That hill behind has some really nice native ecology on it too. Built-In "park" space and natural area, well-connected by car and could be decently connected by bike with some work.

The edge of Acadia that interfaces with Blackfoot would be prime for some further densification and maybe a few commercial units.
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Strangely for a site that appears to be in the middle of nowhere, if that path existed this will be one of the only locations in the city you could walk to both T&T and a decent Walmart within 10 minutes without ever crossing a street or waiting for a light
 
MichaelS said:
The development permit for the Blackfoot Trail mobile home site has been submitted. It isn't the most urban project, but it is relatively inner-city and a significant site and a larger scale project, so I figured I would create a thread for it.

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Absolutely hideous architecture. Cedarglen wins for the absolute worst looking multi in the City.
 
MichaelS said:
The pedestrian bridge is currently there, but will be removed for this project. Blackfoot Trail has 3 northbound lanes south of the bridge, and 3 northbound lanes north of the bridge, but only 2 at the bridge, because the bridge is in the way. The bridge will be removed to facilitate the full 3 northbound lanes, and also to facilitate a proper signalized intersection to access this development (and the west leg will be to access the park on the west side). Pedestrians will now be accommodated by having a painted, signalized cross-walk.

Calgary Transit route 106 does operate on this section of Blackfoot Trail. A stop will be provided at this new signalized intersection. If you lived here, you could catch the bus to/from Southland C-Train station.
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Wonder if Blackfoot could have been shrunk to 4 total through lanes south of Glenmore to free up space. It would be used for a bike path on the west side of the existing Meadows Mile. Mintoft could be moved to the west to create space for a pathway and park along the escarpment. Blackfoot is way over-engineering south of Glenmore. Before Deerfoot opened south of Glenmore, Blackfoot continued over what is now the back nine of the Maple Ridge golfcourse to connect with Anderson.
 
DougB said:
Wonder if Blackfoot could have been shrunk to 4 total through lanes south of Glenmore to free up space. It would be used for a bike path on the west side of the existing Meadows Mile. Mintoft could be moved to the west to create space for a pathway and park along the escarpment. Blackfoot is way over-engineering south of Glenmore. Before Deerfoot opened south of Glenmore, Blackfoot continued over what is now the back nine of the Maple Ridge golfcourse to connect with Anderson.
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I agree this could/should happen but I cannot imagine the public meeting for this. The City could always Cowboys Park it and consult after the fact.
 
Why do you want fewer lanes on Blackfoot Trail? The corridor isn't going to shrink, and there's not really any development or much developable land on it anyway, just huge shoulders and sound walls.
 
CallmeCatbread said:
Blackfoot Trail takes up an obscene amount of space. This was a big missed opportunity to fix it.
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Remember that Blackfoot was the originally planned Deerfoot. It was built with the intention of connecting to the section of Deerfoot north of 17th and then continuing south along the Bow Bottom right of way (another waste of space). Deerfoot's routing changed many times
 
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