Mountain Man
Senior Member
Best strip on all of Centre Street!
Tigerstedt Block | ?m | 6s | Certus | Stephen Ho
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JonnyCanuck
Senior Member
A construction tender is out for this project. Developer is Certus...89 residential units
I'm torn. It's a perfect type of project for Centre St, and Certus has a good track record, but on the other hand, it's easily the best single block on Centre ST, north of the Bow.
nickheer
New Member
It is bananas how often developers in this city are more content to demolish perfectly great pedestrian-centric retail instead of the strip mall across the street.
Calgcouver
Active Member
Looking at what this strip has become, i don't want this project to move forward. This block has now become one of the most interesting commercial strips with the one of the best tenants mixes in the entire city. I would imagine it is cash-flow positive assuming they backloaded the improvement costs in TI's for the tenants and sunk costs for the designs for the new projects, although i don't own it and could be wrong. Almost every other part of Centre Street North could welcome this building (I really like the design and Certus has great execution) and i would prefer to see this design anywhere else but this location at this point.
With all the empty parking lots or places along Centre Street that are auto repair shops etc. it’s a shame that the one actual cool block along Centre Street is targeted for development.
DiscoStu
Active Member
Woo, let's take a charming, human-scaled, organically-grown urban block full of independent businesses... and replace it with with a characterless box built in the name of adding urban density that will most likely be too expensive for anyone but chains and banks.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
Two this week? FFS.
Chinook Arch
Active Member
Disappointing news if they are planning to build. Well the project itself looks good, I agree with the others, that one strip of businesses is the best thing going on all of Centre Street. There are fantastic businesses in that building. I hope it doesn’t get built, at least for another 5 to 10 years.