Golfing guy
Active Member
Think that fencing has be up for quite awhile. Be nice if they did something with the site. It was a decent set of businesses before they shut down
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- Thread starter Surrealplaces
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Weird they would close down and fence it off only to leave it sit, and like you said the business were solid not to mention the building itself isn't very old. I hope it's a sign it's planned to go ahead sometime.
pharmer86
New Member
Not this building its just south of this building. Address is 1300- 8st Sw currently a 7~ building.Do you mean for this project?
Calgary | 1216 8th Street | 85.04m | 25s | Great West Life | Zeidler
Does anyone know anything about a 130 unit residential project somewhere on 8 St SW that GWL Realty is planning?skyrisecities.com
Nothing shows up on DMAP. Maybe just some maintenance or minor renos?
potatopizzafan
Active Member
I think the fencing for both of those buildings just recently went up
FCC1982
Active Member
To make way for ??
artvandelay
Active Member
The way the entire site is fenced off makes it look like they are prepping for demolition. Didn't see any signage indicating what's going on.
MichaelS
Senior Member
The Broward by Truman Homes.
Calgary | The Broward | 19m | 6s | Truman | MoDA
We should have a thread for this project.
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
^Crown Park
Regarding Crown Park, I thought this would be further along, given they are woodframe townhomes.
Regarding Crown Park, I thought this would be further along, given they are woodframe townhomes.
FCC1982
Active Member
Thanks MS - looks decentThe Broward by Truman Homes.
Calgary | The Broward | 19m | 6s | Truman | MoDA
We should have a thread for this project.
It’s been a while since I’ve been up in Marda Loop, I take it this construction work is part of the 33rd Ave., Main Street project?
A friend was in ML yesterday and said there are new traffic lights on 34th. I'm interested to see how well that works out but haven't had a chance to check it out myself.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
It is main streets, one ways on 33 and 34, the lights on 34 are too bad.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
I am in the area regularly, for this phase of construction they have configured 33 / 34th to be single direction streets, with a few added lights at 20th / 34th Ave and 22nd / 34th Ave. After the initial adjustment I have found it actually flows a lot better than before and totally tamps down some of the loud chaos of 33rd during rush hour as it's only 1-way. The local facebook groups are riled up (change/construction is bad) but give it a week or two and people will adjust to the new normal as the signals and signage are refined.
Of course, the main gap is pedestrians - bunch of temporary sidewalks, random construction debris everywhere. The sidewalks are unfortunately even narrow compared to downtown, so every sign/debris is a obstacle that often requires walking into the roadway. Those new traffic signals clearly bias who's complained the most (i.e. local community driver advocates) - so give incredibly generous cycle times to the predominate vehicle direction, but don't extend the walk phase for the whole cycle. Advanced greens installed, but again not coordinated to walking cycle. The result is a lot of standing around and waiting at signals, with limited/no traffic except at rush hours.
Marda Loop isn't the middle of nowhere any more - there is a ton of foot traffic. So it's noticeable when you see an empty road with a 2 minute long signal phase and about 20 people and 5 strollers waiting at each intersection for a stream of cars that doesn't exist outside of rush hour.
One interesting thing to watch the Marda Loop Main Street project is the degree they get this walkability thing in the end product - despite it being a leading goal of the whole project. There's always risk that the loudest voices / internal biases water down the product - giving abit more back to parking lanes, more advanced green signals etc. The 17th Avenue SW Main Street is a failure in this regard, despite improving pedestrian experience being a goal and adding some planters and better lighting, it really didn't improve the pedestrian capacity and quality on the street. If anything it made it less convenient to walk with bizarre one-off ramp designs and preserving wide sweeping curves for right turning vehicles.