The Royal | 114.9m | 34s | Embassy Bosa | Abugov Kaspar

[Oddball]

Great photos SP. It's a really cool perspective you've found, not just of the project but of the whole area around the 17th Ave. & 8th Sreet intersection. The way the area has filled in over the past few years, I'm really beginning to see the case for that larger project to go across from Tomkins Park where those little houses are. It took me a while to find it: Royal Park. I like the general eclecticism of the street front as it is, but from this point of view you can really see how all the adjoining spaces have heightened in scale.

I hope their plan wouldn't involve tearing down that narrow little building where Manies Greek restaurant is. Not for any particular affinity to Manies (though it isn't bad), but because I have very fond memories there from my childhood when it was a little french bookstore and cafe called La Ruelle. I used to get tutoring there when I was young. It would be so great to have that place back. Calgary needs more french in general.

 

[CBBarnett]

Great photos SP. It's a really cool perspective you've found, not just of the project but of the whole area around the 17th Ave. & 8th Sreet intersection. The way the area has filled in over the past few years, I'm really beginning to see the case for that larger project to go across from Tomkins Park where those little houses are. It took me a while to find it: Royal Park. I like the general eclecticism of the street front as it is, but from this point of view you can really see how all the adjoining spaces have heightened in scale.

I hope their plan wouldn't involve tearing down that narrow little building where Manies Greek restaurant is. Not for any particular affinity to Manies (though it isn't bad), but because I have very fond memories there from my childhood when it was a little french bookstore and cafe called La Ruelle. I used to get tutoring there when I was young. It would be so great to have that place back. Calgary needs more french in general.

The Royal is a great development, but I hope the Arlington Proposal south of Tompkins never happens. That one removes one of the only interesting pieces of mish-mashed architecture left in the area, one of the few areas of the city to have a stretch of housing converted to retail, and will inevitably increase the retail rents as the result of it being a new build, so that no interesting or unique tenants will be able to afford the new development. I wouldn't mind if additional uses were added around the existing housing, above, behind, between whatever. But if it results in the loss of one of our only quirky bits of retail I would strongly oppose.

 

[Surrealplaces]

I agree, that section for the Arlington proposal is one of the few places in Calgary like that. Let's hope it never happens.

The Royal is a great development, but I hope the Arlington Proposal south of Tompkins never happens. That one removes one of the only interesting pieces of mish-mashed architecture left in the area, one of the few areas of the city to have a stretch of housing converted to retail, and will inevitably increase the retail rents as the result of it being a new build, so that no interesting or unique tenants will be able to afford the new development. I wouldn't mind if additional uses were added around the existing housing, above, behind, between whatever. But if it results in the loss of one of our only quirky bits of retail I would strongly oppose.

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[haltcatchfire]

This one is moving so slow.

 

[Oddball]

This one is moving so slow.

 

[Surrealplaces]

I suspect, that the podium is a fair bit of work, given the two big box retailers.

 

[maestro]

Chopping down the tower to rest on top of the podium would peak my interests more. It would be something different for Calgary. Instead it's the usual separation of uses with a sprawling retail podium and a tall residential tower to one side of the development. The architectural design is pretty typical of Embassy too. It's all a little bland.

 

[Beltline_B]

 

[Beltline_B]

A few new pics of Royal.

 

[Always_Biking]

Looking good. From this morning?

 

[Beltline_B]

Looking good. From this morning?

From the weekend. I tried to load these the yesterday but couldn't.

 

[Mountain Man]

I suspect, that the podium is a fair bit of work, given the two big box retailers.

That's a pretty good guess, likely lots of transfer beams and such to open up the space.

 

[maestro]

There's nothing I can see being built over the big box. I'm surprised it isn't being built from steel.

 

[Surrealplaces]

There's nothing I can see being built over the big box. I'm surprised it isn't being built from steel.

The original plan from way back was two towers, but given the 34 storeys have probably maxed out their FAR. Unless there are plans to build a shorter second tower some day? I don't remember seeing that but who knows.