Village Block | 27m | 6s | Liberty Housing | Metafor

[CalgaryTiger]

Some sort of event on site today, lots of people around a little tent on site. Must be the official ground breaking.

Guess they were celebrating the ground breaking. Really nice design and the location choice is good for the surrounding area, good to have affordable housing filling an empty lot.

 

[NWUrbanism]

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/11/06/calgary-liberty-housing-development/

 

[niteryder]

 

[FriendlyDrunks]

Looks like the design has changed a bit.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

Darn I liked the curved bits on the upper portion.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

 

[The Familia]

Typical….losing the curves changes the whole building. Went from an A- to a C.

 

[CT (Chinese_T)]

 

[badc0ffee]

Still a B to me.

 

[CBBarnett]

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I like it. More important than looks, a rough zero-effort guess-estimate suggests this will be the first pedestrian-oriented retail experience in a mixed-use building within this entire area.

I think that's an underrated feature of many of these new 6 storey mixed-use with retail infills going up all over: we are literally creating an walkable urban land use for the first time for entire swathes of the city that have never experienced a building like this before.

Put this same building up in Mission: meh, same old story - but Parkdale? It's practically an urban revolution.

1 urban format building does not make an urban city, but if you built 100 of these within that red outlined area you'd actually have things like modestly vibrant streets, a store that you can walk to, and one day perhaps even a few places you'd go to in an evening. Imagine a nightlife (however modest) in Parkdale? Unreal!

Baby steps - it's a good, simple building that hits all the right notes. Keep 'em coming.

 

[badc0ffee]

if you built 100 of these within that red outlined area you'd actually have things like modestly vibrant streets, a store that you can walk to, and one day perhapseven a few places you'd go in an evening.

Interesting to think about this happening. I can imagine it in Parkdale and in West Hillhurst, but not the whole area of the map. St. Andrew's Heights is basically a cul de sac of a neighbourhood, with limited entrances and surrounded by steep grades. Point McKay is a giant condo townhouse development with private streets.

 

[Chinook Arch]

1 urban format building does not make an urban city, but if you built 100 of these within that red outlined area you'd actually have things like modestly vibrant streets, a store that you can walk to, and one day perhaps even a few places you'd go to in an evening. Imagine a nightlife (however modest) in Parkdale?

Even 25 of these would make a noticeable difference if placed in strategic areas.

 

[Mountain Man]

Still looks good and exactly what the area needs!

 

[Calgcouver]

I may be moving to that area and it needs walkable amenities so bad. Give me a Memorial Drive/Parkdale Blvd/3 Ave of just this along the riverfront and we're killing it.

Didn't get VE'd as bad as i thought it would either.

 

[Albertasaurus]

Sad to see the curves go, but it's still a decent building IMO.