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[CBBarnett]

I find the discourse around the lack of SP/Stam Trail development very amusing. The city changes the LRT station/overpass/17ave connection, opens BMO...and within a year we see new proposals surrounding it...not before they were completed. This really isn't any different. The Rivers Plan has barely started....still need the bus barns removed, underpass completed, stampede trail completed, the arena is still ~2 years away....but everything you would need in assisting development (foot traffic at night/day, proper street plan, LRT connections) is going to be there. A massive construction site does not assist in selling a development...the finished product does

One of these days it'll happen! We just need to be patient.

I for one am still waiting on this 1989 proposal from a *West German* consortium to build a hotel at the Stampede Grounds. It's a smart play by these guys, really takes advantage of the new and shiny infrastructure in the area in the last 10 years, such as the Saddledome (1983), Round-Up Exhibition Centre, (1981) and LRT (1981). Sure construction was a pain, but with a brand new arena, exhibition centre and rapid transit station the area is poised to take off!

Arguing about why Victoria Park and Stampede redevelopment isn't happening fast enough is a Calgary tradition going back at least 50 years of failed proposal after failed proposal. We aren't going to stop arguing about it now!

 

[O-tac]

Really bizarre to me that there's this much trouble building in Victoria Park. Is the Stampede board that dysfunctional?

 

[Mountain Man]

I think it's mostly that outside of the Stampede or events at BMO / Saddledome, the area is a ghost town. It's also been a skid row type area for some time now, so not a lot of interest in developing there when there are better areas.

 

[O-tac]

I think it's mostly that outside of the Stampede or events at BMO / Saddledome, the area is a ghost town. It's also been a skid row type area for some time now, so not a lot of interest in developing there when there are better areas.

They're building condo towers in front of the DIC. You'd think being the other side of the tracks from there would at least help this area out. Arriva's built. Too bad Lamb's Orchard project was too far ahead of its time.