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Whether or not Stampede 2021 (or some modified version of it) is going to happen is a different discussion.

However, the grounds are going to be pretty torn up for the next couple summers, it'll be interesting to see how to accommodate the construction.
 
That would be like a half billion dollar investment... and completely impractical. One at every intersection in the CBD would be cool though (still exorbitantly/impractically expensive). Sort of place-making and brightening up the hellscape that is the office core.
 
UrbanWarrior said:
That would be like a half billion dollar investment... and completely impractical. One at every intersection in the CBD would be cool though (still exorbitantly/impractically expensive). Sort of place-making and brightening up the hellscape that is the office core.
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If you were to do placemaking with them, I think it would be best to make a trail of them (one at every intersection as you said) that runs N/S through downtown and connects 17th, Stephen Ave, through CBD to China town or to Eau Claire, then to the riverwalk. That way there's a lit/ fun interconnected sort of path between these places for wayfinding purposes. Plus downtown would get a lot brighter and cooler. Night would have a killer vibe. Could make the retail along this new corridor real banging.
 
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Quick conceptual drawing of the above lol. You could even put a bigger one in the middle of Prince's Island and in the park on 17th as sort of terminus points lol. Anyways, enough random musing for me this morning.
 
UrbanWarrior said:
Do we have a recent count on how many units we have UC in the inner city right now? I can do one after class if no one else has.
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I had a list going somewhere and can't find it, but this was the total for the inner city neighborhoods

~3800 residential units to Downtown, Beltline, Kensington, Bridgeland and Mission. I didn't include the continuing care centre in Bridgeland, though technically they could be considered residents. I'm not sure about the total count for West village towers. I believe 554 may be for all three, but may also have changed when they decided to make the second tower taller. There is also 19+2 going up in West Hillhurst, and The Sunalta Towers.

Bridgeland........................................................................................................
The Bridge285
Steps122
Columbus Court104
Era178
Dominion300
Alvaro16


Mission...............................................................................
Riverwalk141
Block on 4th68
Beverly34
Elva52


Kensington..........................................................................................
The Theodore114
Annex104
Victoria on 5th90

Beltline....................................................................................
Redstone137
11th and 11th369
Curtis Block628


Downtown..........................................................................................................................
West Village Towers554
933 - 5th74
 
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I did a full one, forgot to post it but I’m on my phone now. We were just under 5000 for the inner city.

Edit: Nevermind, yours is better. I also included Marda Loop, Bankview, West Hillhurst, and Catalyst (whichever neighbourhood that's in) though. You also forgot Arris East, Place 10 East, and Sunalta Heights One.

I thought Curtis was over 1000, but I guess that's with the third tower.



West Village One – 277 units

West Village Two – 277 units

Dominion East – 150

Dominion West – 150

Curtis Block North – 314

Curtis Block South – 314

The Bridge – 285

11 & 11 – 369

Riverwalk – 141

Place 10 East – 405

Arris East – 200?

Redstone – 137

Era – 178

Theodore – 114

Sunalta Heights One – 207

Elva – 61

The Fifth – 34

Harrison – 67

Annex – 104

Courtyard 33 – 70

Columbus – 104

Beverly – 35

Catalyst – 75

Steps – 122

933 5 Ave SW – 74

Nimmons Court – 84

The Victoria – 90

Wolf Den – 13

19+2 – 51

The Block on 4th – 39



Total - 4541
 
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gsunnyg said:
They should stick these around downtown in rows. It'll automatically help make downtown a much more attractive place to be at night than it is right now
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They would be be nicer than the ones currently on Barclay Street. The problem as I see it is downtown needs a few changes to get it to a point of being vibrant. At least two major changes.
1) there needs to be more businesses with street frontage and they need to stay open later than 5:00pm. I feel like this is the most important factor
2) there needs to be more residents in the core as well. Not alot, but some extra residents would help.

Other improvements like two way streets, wider sidewalks, and cool lighting would have only a minimal effect until those other two issues are resolved.
 
UrbanWarrior said:
I did a full one, forgot to post it but I’m on my phone now. We were just under 5000 for the inner city.

Edit: Nevermind, yours is better. I also included Marda Loop, Bankview, West Hillhurst, and Catalyst (whichever neighbourhood that's in) though. You also forgot Arris East, Place 10 East, and Sunalta Heights One.

I thought Curtis was over 1000, but I guess that's with the third tower.



West Village One – 277 units

West Village Two – 277 units

Dominion East – 150

Dominion West – 150

Curtis Block North – 314

Curtis Block South – 314

The Bridge – 285

11 & 11 – 369

Riverwalk – 141

Place 10 East – 405

Arris East – 200?

Redstone – 137

Era – 178

Theodore – 114

Sunalta Heights One – 207

Elva – 61

The Fifth – 34

Harrison – 67

Annex – 104

Courtyard 33 – 70

Columbus – 104

Beverly – 35

Catalyst – 75

Steps – 122

933 5 Ave SW – 74

Nimmons Court – 84

The Victoria – 90

Wolf Den – 13

19+2 – 51

The Block on 4th – 39



Total - 4541
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4500 units, would normally = around 6000 to 7000 people. That's a good dose of extra population in inner city, not to mention all of the smaller 2-8 unit projects that have been popping up.
 
Not to mention all the units in University District and all the inner city ones completed since the end of summer...

Telus Sky - 326
Park Central - 463
Coco - 76
Irvine - 60
Grow - 20
The Edward - 95
South Bank - 69
Underwood - 225
UpTen - 379
Mantra - 33

- 1746


There are also several that can be expected to go ahead this year.
 
UrbanWarrior said:
I did a full one, forgot to post it but I’m on my phone now. We were just under 5000 for the inner city.

Edit: Nevermind, yours is better. I also included Marda Loop, Bankview, West Hillhurst, and Catalyst (whichever neighbourhood that's in) though. You also forgot Arris East, Place 10 East, and Sunalta Heights One.

I thought Curtis was over 1000, but I guess that's with the third tower.



West Village One – 277 units

West Village Two – 277 units

Dominion East – 150

Dominion West – 150

Curtis Block North – 314

Curtis Block South – 314

The Bridge – 285

11 & 11 – 369

Riverwalk – 141

Place 10 East – 405

Arris East – 200?

Redstone – 137

Era – 178

Theodore – 114

Sunalta Heights One – 207

Elva – 61

The Fifth – 34

Harrison – 67

Annex – 104

Courtyard 33 – 70

Columbus – 104

Beverly – 35

Catalyst – 75

Steps – 122

933 5 Ave SW – 74

Nimmons Court – 84

The Victoria – 90

Wolf Den – 13

19+2 – 51

The Block on 4th – 39



Total - 4541
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I like your list better as it encompasses more of what the core truly is.
 
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adamyyc said:
Yeah, I think a few heads will explode when redevelopment of the plaza begins. Honestly I hope it forces people to reconsider driving and they walk more.
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Sorry for the terrible photo. I was out for a walk this evening and saw that there is signage up for the proposed RNDSQR building that will fill the remainder of the block next to Courtyard 33.
 

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