West District | ?m | ?s | Truman

[TooBizzy]

A lot of hours were spent coming up with the layout of the West District from the open spaces, the amenities and the block plans. Tripling the density of blocks to cash in on investors that don't give a shit about the community is going to have an impact

Investors... such as... Truman... the same people who designed the rest of the community... and are designing this development to be a thinner tower instead of a wider 8 storey apartment to continue the vision of well designed open space.

 

[lemongrab]

I think they could kind of easily turn the train north at 85th and have the West Blue Line terminus be at West District. You can capture the dense area by Spring Bank Hill and West District. Will that SW part of the city keep growing out past Stoney? I don't know.

The business case would be interesting here - I wonder how many new customers it would actually generate, or how many park and riders would become just riders? There's about 670 free P&R stalls on the west, with another 570 reserved stalls. A reserved stall can currently generate $1080 per year (but I'm not sure any lots sell out?).

So if you cannibalize 200 reserved stall users that's $216k per year...perhaps inconsequential, but it's a consideration. And I suppose this is true for any extension scenario, but it feels like it might be a little more pronounced here