UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
The new deli section just opened this week at Mission Safeway. They are really going all out on this expansion and renovation. Love it!
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General Construction Updates
- Thread starter Surrealplaces
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GoVertical
Senior Member
Omg that looks sooo much better already!
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October
Guest
Is the IBM office at District Beltline still around? Or did they pack up shop?
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Their sign is still there, so I would assume they still have some presence...
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Yeah, they would have taken the sign down rather than taking big effort to paint around it.
Silence&Motion
Senior Member
I don't know. All that colour might be a little too much pizzazz for the suits at Big Blue.
DougB
Senior Member
Surprised that Empire would invest in the Mission Safeway. That site is prime for development. Could easily do two 20 story towers on a retail base.
Beazley66
Active Member
That’s a story, yes.
The teardown of the condemned building on 10th is just about done.
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adamyyc
Active Member
Is this the “Prairie Block” site?
Priarie Block — Gravity Architecture - Vancouver and Calgary Residential and Commercial Architecture
The Prairie Block is a two-storey building proposed for the Marda Loop commercial district in Calgary.
www.gravityarchitecture.com
It’d be great if that entire block was redeveloped, although I’d like the buildings with the active store fronts on 33 Ave (buildings with Boogies Burgers, K-Thi Vietnamese Cuisine, etc.) to remain if possible!
adamyyc
Active Member
Hopefully that means something will happen with that site! I quite like the renderings for Prairie Block and had been holding out hope that it would be built one day, but I’d be more than happy with a master planned block!
Ideal situation is that if they do redevelop the whole block, they improve the active frontage on 33 Ave, add active frontage on 34 Ave and 20 St, create the “Festival Street” on 21 St as suggested in the Streetscape Master Plan, and maybe, just maybe, Co-Op creates a public space or adds public art to the corner of 33 Ave and 20 St.
One challenge for a full development of the block will be relocation of the cell tower behind Prairie Block, but not insurmountable.
Calgcouver
Active Member
That’s pretty accurate and profit margin on cost is below the 15% you’d want to see a proforma to say go on for a lot of little R-CG projects. People are making a go of it though, feel time on the market is a killer for some though.
GoVertical
Senior Member
The construction at Bromley/ I+X that we were talking about in place 10 discussion. Not sure about the canopy thing...
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Lipstick on a pig lol.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
A highly functional, affordable and properly located pig receiving some well-earned lipstick. I'd take this beef-castle over a shiny, sexy tower located next to a freeway interchange in the burbs any day of the week.