AccUnit
Active Member
Didn't they just do a reno on the retail at scotia place? I'm liking the rendering though, hopefully it comes to fruition.
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darwink
Senior Member
I really hope the Telus Sky top floors end up being public too. That would be pretty cool to have three different restos.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
Too bad that entrance is architecturally incorrect.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
They just did an interior reno, and they updated the podium level on the tower like 10 - 15 years ago. This looks great and all sounds quite promising. I hope the level of disruption on Stephen Ave isn't the same as 17th (don't think there is utulity work involved, so I'm hoping).
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Wow - what an upgrade for Stephen Ave's most depressing podium! This along with Stephen Ave revamp work planned all the way to 11st SW should continue to add major appeal for one of our most prominent strips.
"Slate also announced that it has partnered with O&B and Concorde to create three innovative and inspired dining destinations in Stephen Avenue Place; a world-class restaurant on the top floor, an eclectic food hall and a high-energy restaurant, bar and patio on the street level."
https://www.restobiz.ca/calgary-bas...-oliver-bonacini-hospitality-newest-property/
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Edit - looks like we're getting a new 40th floor resto too!
Slate, with its partners Oliver & Bonacini and Concorde Group, are creating three singular dining concepts at Stephen Avenue Place: a panoramic 40th floor world-class restaurant, a 2nd floor chef-driven, market-style Food Hall and a stylish and animated ground floor restaurant, patio and bar. O&B and Concorde are also revitalizing Stephen Avenue fixtures Goro + Gun and National Beer Hall.
Standing tall above the 100,000 sqft. retail podium is 520,000 sqft. of state-of-the-art workspaces complete with gym, conference centre and private lounge.
http://stephenavenueplace.com/
Wow, that is amazing.
MichaelS
Senior Member
So I have posted the building specific CPC items in their threads if they had one. Here are a few more items that may be of interest:
The community of Red Carpet (yes, there is one named that, over at 68th Street and 17th Ave SE) has a major DP going, that is the first of a much larger infill development:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=68565
As well, two of the 14 new communities are having their outline plans go to CPC next week as well.
Belvedere, next to the Trinity East Hills development:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=68580
Rangeview, next to Seton, south of Mahogany:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=68588
The community of Red Carpet (yes, there is one named that, over at 68th Street and 17th Ave SE) has a major DP going, that is the first of a much larger infill development:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=68565
As well, two of the 14 new communities are having their outline plans go to CPC next week as well.
Belvedere, next to the Trinity East Hills development:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=68580
Rangeview, next to Seton, south of Mahogany:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=68588
CBBarnett
Senior Member
One thing you can always rely on in a Calgary outline plan is the guaranteed placement of large stormwater ponds inexplicably next to main roads (preferably with higher order transit planned like 17th Ave SE), forever preventing these streets from being anything other than wasted walking, transit and vehicle kilometre of travel.
I get we have stormwater challenges - as most cities do - but I don't get why we have to do this and few others seem to. This argument applies to sidewalk, stormwater, utility and street tree alignment (i.e. a street should have all of these without one preventing the other from being there) and how we can never seem to get this right, but others cities don't even blink at it.
darwink
Senior Member
I think a lot of cities just ignore storm water challenges, or build to a much lower level. If you are willing to have major intersections pond, you can reduce your need for other strategies as well. Some do huge central projects too, like Chicago.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
There's actually a community called Red Carpet? this city has to have some of the dumbest community names lol. I think it's a toss up between Red Carpet and Castle Keep for the worst name.
MichaelS
Senior Member
A few interesting concepts on Ronmor's website. Not sure how far along they are, but definitely items of interest:
Banff Trail TOD, for the parcel east of the Student Housing tower (can never remember the name of that one):
https://ronmor.findspace.com/buildi...n&show_no_vacancy=off&lang=en_CA#tab_fs-media
And a mixed use project in Bridgeland, to the east of "the Bridges" sites on 1st Ave:
https://ronmor.findspace.com/buildi...e&show_no_vacancy=off&lang=en_CA#tab_fs-media
Banff Trail TOD, for the parcel east of the Student Housing tower (can never remember the name of that one):
https://ronmor.findspace.com/buildi...n&show_no_vacancy=off&lang=en_CA#tab_fs-media
And a mixed use project in Bridgeland, to the east of "the Bridges" sites on 1st Ave:
https://ronmor.findspace.com/buildi...e&show_no_vacancy=off&lang=en_CA#tab_fs-media
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gsunnyg
Senior Member
Nice to see more TOD developments go up, only thing is that parcel would have been the only other site I think in the Motel village where developers could have built another tall tower according to the redevelopment plan. Given "The Hub" will be close to 30 storeys and this rendering looks like these towers are half the size, there may be a problem of "The Hub"looking a little awkward and random. If at least two tall buildings are built next to each other rather than just 1, its less likely to be an eye sore.
JesseLikesCities
Active Member
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/new-tuscany-fire-hall-unveiled-as-community-hub
Nice looking building with a park beside it. I drive by it most days I'm home on my way to the pub.
Nice looking building with a park beside it. I drive by it most days I'm home on my way to the pub.
The Bridgeland one is a nice little proposal, hopefully it gets built. Between this and Dominion, I like what I'm seeing coming down the pipe.
Patrick.1980
Active Member
Nice find! The Bridgeland one is nice, the other is decent density infill.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
That Banff Trail one might be as good as you can expect a developer to do given how car-focused the City and it's future plans of 16th Avenue are around that area. I also like how the first blocks to be developed in Banff Trail are along the south edge, hopefully providing some shelter from the traffic and noise coming from the south, similar to those projects in Bridgeland right along Memorial that helped enclose the neighbourhood a bit, making it seem more livable by removing a huge source of disruption. Solving Crowchild's negative impacts is another level unfortunately.
I am curious why TOD in Calgary rarely seems to develop adjacent to the LRT stations first. I suspect often Transit actually owns the land for park-and-rides, adding a layer of complexity to redevelopment adjacent to stations, as well as the poor local conditions of our stations (i.e. in the middle of unwelcoming freeways) might be to blame, but it would be interesting to hear other perspectives.