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Chinook Centre Developments

Another new DP for the area, this one is to be located immediately east of the Lumino buildings. Architect is C1ZN Architecture. If all of these projects go ahead, I can see Chinook starting to evolve into a proper "midtown", hopefully with a much more urban feel.
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Albertasaurus said:
Another new DP for the area, this one is to be located immediately east of the Lumino buildings. Architect is C1ZN Architecture. If all of these projects go ahead, I can see Chinook starting to evolve into a proper "midtown", hopefully with a much more urban feel.
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I don't see it on the DMAP yet, but I guess this is where those boarded up bungalows are that back on to the little playground on 1A street?

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Albertasaurus said:
If all of these projects go ahead, I can see Chinook starting to evolve into a proper "midtown", hopefully with a much more urban feel.
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Macleod should really be redesigned into a tree-lined boulevard with wide sidewalks, at least for the portion from glenmore to downtown. Would help make the area feel way less hostile.
 
goodcitywhenfinished said:
Macleod should really be redesigned into a tree-lined boulevard with wide sidewalks, at least for the portion from glenmore to downtown. Would help make the area feel way less hostile.
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Unfortunately Council rejected a plan to do just this over the next 50 years. It was a weird one, the sales pitch just couldn’t overcome the ‘it is bad now, how could it ever be better’ inertia.
 
KrisYYC said:
I had no idea there were still some bungalows around that area. Wild
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Try a couple of houses that are still remaining just west of Alyth railyard. The closest neighbourhood is Inglewood on the other side of the railyard. Otherwise, it is Ramsay, which is about 1km away.
 
How bizarre! That would actually be a pretty convenient place to live if you could get past the noise and possible odors that typically result from heavy industrial uses.
 
Albertasaurus said:
How bizarre! That would actually be a pretty convenient place to live if you could get past the noise and possible odors that typically result from heavy industrial uses.
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This latest project seems to think even MORE people will be willing to do that, as they create a bunch more dwelling units there.
 
Albertasaurus said:
How bizarre! That would actually be a pretty convenient place to live if you could get past the noise and possible odors that typically result from heavy industrial uses.
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It would seem like this would be an issue but it's centrality is overwhelming the negative perception I think. It's just a really central location near everything - just doesn't look like it given the abysmal public realm design on the MacLeod corridor. A couple points on noise and heavy industrial concerns:
  1. Development is 2 blocks off MacLeod and 2 blocks from the rail line. Noise - yup. But materially a lot of noise v. pretty much any where else? Not really - houses in the NW and SW that back onto the constant roar of Stoney Trail go for over a million in many communities. Downtown has both MacLeod and rail lines and tens of thousands choose to live there too. Noise must be a problem for some people - but it just seems like many don't mind it and just live wherever and either don't care or have other factors outweigh noise issues..
  2. Odors and other nuisances from "heavy industrial" are pretty overblown here - there's nothing really heavy about an remaining industries in the immediate area. It's a bunch of office spaces, autobody shops and commercial things like medical clinics. Yes an occasional train might cause some issues, but there's fancier places throughout the city and people don't seem to mind the occasional train.
Apart from a shabby, anti-pedestrian design of MacLeod Trail and the surrounding formerly industrial lands, there's nothing particularly bad about the immediate location - perhaps the access to grocery, or day to day shops for residential services is the most notable limiting factor. Still, this doesn't make the area unique - just average access for many suburban communities to this stuff.

I'd also be incredibly frustrating crossing MacLeod every day coming from this neighbourhood as the signal timing is purely prioritizing suburban car traffic and never lets you cross. 2 to 3 minute signal cycles are brutally common here. Perhaps that might change if the area gets more population to counteract the bias in favour of commuters.
 
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Dārayavauš said:
That is incredibly unfortunate, I didn't know they rejected a plan.

Shortsighted in my opinion.
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Agreed. However, all these proposals, once developed, along that stretch could force a re-evaluation of that decision in the mid-term.
 
There's enough happening now that if momentum continues or accelerates, they will need to revisit it. I haven't looked at the main streets project in general for a bit so i don't know where it stands. See if I have time today.
 
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