General Construction Updates

[MichaelS]

They made it too big, and now it has too much electricity so they put this in to use up the excess. Right? That is how it works?

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I was going to post about that! I noticed it yesterday morning and was like “holy shit they put Times Square in the deadest part of the core?!” Those older apartment towers a block over were basically glowing.

 

[GoVertical]

Belvedere development:

 

[shermanator]

Small update of the one part of the Marda Loop Mainstreets project that is nearing completion from this morning. Feels like the finishing touches are taking forever but it's at least completed enough that you can walk on 18th street now.

Will be a real nice area once everything is all done.

 

[1875]

i go through there almost everyday and never noticed that. nice to reclaim something.

 

[O-tac]

Some more updates from Seton. Second floor on the condo with Community Foods in the base is going up. Also noticed foundation work for the building across the street. Doesn’t look like there’s going to be a parkade in that building.

Checked out the Long and McQuade and found out the eastern half of the building will be sublet. Employee told me he hoped it would be a coffee shop. Space looks big enough for 3 coffee shops or one larger tenant. Also the south side of that parcel has construction fencing and some kind of earth or utility work going on. Can’t find anything on their site about a development there.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

A slew of Eau Claire Plaza photos. Didn’t realize it had a big grass area. Looks like they are installing some sort of serious drainage, so still hoping for a water feature/park and an urban beach

Also the old mill building is getting a sizeable addition. Was hoping it was restaurant space, but most likely storage for parks stuff.

 

[Mountain Man]

Looks good, should be only 5 more years before it's finished and open!

 

[The Familia]

What is the point of those sticks? Does anyone actually know if they serve a purpose?

 

[DiscoStu]

I would definitely be curious to hear the design thinking behind that one. The only thing I can come up with is it's a connection to the lumber yard Peter Prince ran in Eau Claire. Either that, or Timbertown greased a few palms at City Hall...

 

[O-tac]

I thought they will be supporting steel canopies?

 

[DiscoStu]

I thought they will be supporting steel canopies?

Looking at the city website renderings (https://www.calgary.ca/planning/projects/eau-claire-plaza.html) it does seem like some will support a canopy (you can see it in the last photo above). But the ones on the south end just appear to be there for no functional reason.

 

[outoftheice]

The addition to the Eau Claire Lumber building are public washrooms to replace the old ones that used to be located at the splash park that was there previously. I was hoping the building would have been relocated to be a little closer to the lagoon so that any patio would have a nice view of the water but that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[YYCguy]

The addition to the Eau Claire Lumber building are public washrooms to replace the old ones that used to be located at the splash park that was there previously. I was hoping the building would have been relocated to be a little closer to the lagoon so that any patio would have a nice view of the water but that doesn't seem to be the case.

That’s a shame that the building couldn’t be positioned better!

 

[Ramsayite]

Looking at the city website renderings (https://www.calgary.ca/planning/projects/eau-claire-plaza.html) it does seem like some will support a canopy (you can see it in the last photo above). But the ones on the south end just appear to be there for no functional reason.

Well, given that they're at the south end, they will provide some pathetic little sliver of shade.

That's some $5,000 psf shade haha