General Construction Updates

[haltcatchfire]

Your kind, perhaps one day. Bad news though: unfortunately I think you'd actually need 11 of me to make this scheme work smoothly (1 leading planning, 1 leading transportation, 1 leading land/real estate, 8 members of Council).

Of course the problem there is to get that senior in any of those fields you risk field-specific biases and incentives being baked in - Transportation CBBarnett only gets rewarded from preserving right-of-way, Real Estate CBBarnett gets rewarded for selling more land, 8 Councillor CBBarnetts want to get re-elected and get suspicious when our constituent's roads are impacted. Hell, by that point I'm sure a few of us will have been corrupted by the sprawl development argument that it creates tons of jobs, is somehow cheaper for taxpayers despite the evidence, and we'd be stupid to undertake any plan that improves our land productivity rate!

But I'll do what I can. Proposing ideas on this site to the smart people that hang out here is part of the multi-faceted strategy to help get this city sorted out

Good to see you're secretly jaded like the rest of us!

 

[Urban Outdoorsman]

Project on 17th ave north. Not the greatest but pretty okay. It's at least nice that 17th ave north is becoming a node of mid rise buildings. Hopefully this trend continues.

 

[BKha]

Glad to see that empty lot maybe getting developed. The houses that were there were rather rundown, but they had some character. I hated seeing them dozed over only to have the lot sit empty.

24th ave & 5th st sw (a block north of riverwalk)

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[BKha]

I pass by this place a fair bit. The building is crap, with cheap materials, but the added density to the area is a benefit.

Project on 17th ave north. Not the greatest but pretty okay. It's at least nice that 17th ave north is becoming a node of mid rise buildings. Hopefully this trend continues.
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[Mountain Man]

That building looks awful! who is the developer?

 

[Surrealplaces]

That building looks awful! who is the developer?

IIRC, they're called Castlerock.

 

[Chinook Arch]

What's really sad is that most suburban developments of this type and scale are much better quality.

 

[heightjunkie]

That building looks awful! who is the developer?

Probably would have been cheaper to build it out of shipping containers and would have achieved a similar aesthetic

 

[MichaelS]

The office building being converted to a hotel (I think..) on 4th Avenue has had its construction fencing come down:

For reference, this is what it looked like before:

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[Surrealplaces]

Minor changes for the most part, but looks better at the street level.

 

[Stephen Ave]

I think it's an improvement. If only they could get rid of that 80's mirrored glass and install something more transparent.

The office building being converted to a hotel (I think..) on 4th Avenue has had its construction fencing come down:
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For reference, this is what it looked like before:

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[Calgcouver]

The office building being converted to a hotel (I think..) on 4th Avenue has had its construction fencing come down:
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For reference, this is what it looked like before:

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Wow, that looks much better at street level, with some softscaping and planters that is a nice 1st floor now. Good job whoever worked on this one.

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[cameronhowe]

Was by the IBM / The District space that's under construction last week and forgot to post some photos. Not sure if this has been posted already but the metal structure is up already.

 

[Habanero]

I missed this post from a few years back. I take it nothing has been happening with this? Too bad, it would be a nice density boost for the area.

So here is the concept for the Southland Crossing TOD plans:
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Pretty big density increase. Not a bad adaptation of what is there in my opinion. Here is the site plan:
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