The Forge | 16.5m | 6s | Kanas | Gibbs Gage

niteryder · May 6, 2023

Some second floor action finally happening + Friday night at the Block 23 Village Ice Cream.

Alex_YYC · May 8, 2023

Now that they are onto the wood, framing portion may be this will rise more quickly. It’s been agonizingly slow.

Surrealplaces · May 28, 2023

CT (Chinese_T) · Jun 8, 2023

Alex_YYC · Jun 15, 2023

Atticus · Jun 16, 2023

Wasn't Kanas the group that built those affordable housing towers near Chinook? The ones where the each tower took about 4 years to build.

CT (Chinese_T) · Jun 17, 2023

Interesting, They seem to have scrapped the concrete construction that was originally planned and gone for steel construction instead, similar to The Block on 4th. I guess it's more fitting as "The Forge?" lol

EDIT: Oh yeah, I did hear rumours a while back that Gracorp (The original developer for this project when it was marketed as The Grammercy) didn't sell very well due to the higher price per sqft of concrete construction. Kanas must've decided to change it to steel when they took over the project.

EDIT 2: Dang, apparently Kanas is selling this as a rental. The failure of the Gracorp launch must've really scared them away from the idea of condos on this site. Looks like Gracorp learnt their lesson too, as Block 15 is also entirely rental.

This really makes me wonder how Truman sells out so quickly since pretty much all of their West District projects are concrete construction, even the 3-storey Parkside Condos.

Surrealplaces · Jun 18, 2023

Chinese_T said:
This really makes me wonder how Truman sells out so quickly since pretty much all of their West District projects are concrete construction, even the 3-storey Parkside Condos.

My guess....and this is only a guess, is it came down to price. I don't know the pricing was for Gramercy, but I bet it was fairly high compared to Springbank Hill prices.