General Construction Updates

[Surrealplaces]

Beltline Park

 

[Surrealplaces]

Excavation begins at Radius in Bridgeland.

 

[Always_Biking]

Nice to see this block getting developed.

 

[Surrealplaces]

New Bridge between St George's Island and the Zoo

 

[RyLucky]

East side is the beast side!

(sorry for that)

 

[BKha]

Does that mean West side is the Best side?

 

[Spring2008]

Radius - i'd love to see a lot more of this. It's these midrise/lowrise type infill projects along with public realm improvements that really help to add density and character.

Remarkable contrast to edm growth patterns still which lost a net of about 7,000 people within their three main inner-city wards (6,7,8) and ~12,000 including wards 10 and 11 from 2014 to 2016. Calgary's established neighborhood growth was going very strong up until 2015, then a slight decline in 2016 but an overall net increase in inner-city wards (7,8,9) of 3,079 people from 2014 to 2016. From 2008 to 2016 Calgary's inner-city wards saw a population increase of 56,256 while edm only increased by 12,222. Still a long way to go to catch up to TO/Van but should give ourselves some credit. One can only hope the economy improves as we were really on track with the initial phases of Plan it with growth in established neighborhoods targeted at 50% of over the long term.

 

[Always_Biking]

Weird that Edmonton's inner city would be losing population. I see various residential condo projects going up in those areas, you would think the population would be going up? I'm glad to see inner city neighborhoods in Calgary increasing population. I wonder what happened with the west side of Eau Claire? It looks to have lost population.

 

[Surrealplaces]

One 6 (16th ave and 14th st NW)

 

[Spring2008]

Part of it is the economy but aside from a few blocks in their city centre very little infill activity has happened there over the past decade. I suppose it's better than the decades of inner-city population loses before that though. Meanwhile the leapfrogging development beyond the ring road is as strong as ever while many of their inner-city neighbourhoods continue to stagnat or deteriorate.

Calgary continues to do a much better job with infill across the board (highrise, midrise , low rise etc) and with cleaner, safer inner-city neighbourhoods and a centralized workforce the demand continues to be much stronger.

Having said that pretty much 100% of growth is happening in established neighbourhoods in cities like Vancouver across more nodes and into adjacent municipalities . I believe Calgary can step up the inner-city growth further and also get more TOD nodes going. Also, while duplex infill continues at a tremendous pace, I'd like to see row housing become just as common. Surely, with a lower price point I think this may be just around the corner. Articles like this give me some hope. This RNDSQR firm has about a dozen inner-city row housing projects planned alone.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/calgary-and-edmonton/switchback-house/article30706667/

Weird that Edmonton's inner city would be losing population. I see various residential condo projects going up in those areas, you would think the population would be going up? I'm glad to see inner city neighborhoods in Calgary increasing population. I wonder what happened with the west side of Eau Claire? It looks to have lost population.

 

[Spring2008]

University Dristic looks like a pretty solid node development in an established neighbourhood. Launching tomorrow.

http://m.marketwired.com/press-rele...istory-receive-leed-neighbourhood-2157184.htm

 

[Spring2008]

I know that Strategic residential development is along the busy Trans Canada highway so not ideal for residential development, but that rendering looks inexcusably bad. Reminded of this podcast I listened to from Brent Toderian a few days ago stressing the importance of tying design into density. Interesting that he mentions Calgary transforming from a very American Dallas/Denver free market development approach in the early 2000's to a city now out Vancouvering Vanvouer in some ways.
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/09/06/talking-headways-podcast-the-vancouver-model/

 

[RyLucky]

http://www.calgary.ca/Transportatio...rea-Projects.aspx?redirect=/inglewoodprojects

I noticed there is information coming regard Inglewood's 8th Avenue Laneway. Any info on this?

 

[Oddball]

University Dristic looks like a pretty solid node development in an established neighbourhood. Launching tomorrow.

http://m.marketwired.com/press-rele...istory-receive-leed-neighbourhood-2157184.htm

My aunt and uncle who are academics are dying for this project to move forward. I'm very eager to see the results as well. I'm curious to see that the transit plan will be.

 

[Oddball]

I know that Strategic residential development is along the busy Trans Canada highway so not ideal for residential development, but that rendering looks inexcusably bad. Reminded of this podcast I listened to from Brent Toderian a few days ago stressing the importance of tying design into density. Interesting that he mentions Calgary transforming from a very American Dallas/Denver free market development approach in the early 2000's to a city now out Vancouvering Vanvouer in some ways.
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/09/06/talking-headways-podcast-the-vancouver-model/

Thanks for the share. It was a very worthwhile listen. The part about Calgary beginning to demand more quality out of developers was the most interesting part for me.