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Surrealplaces said:
I'll call this one 'Imagine North Hill' There'd be less parking lot, but the gist would be some towers on the east end of the parcel.

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I wonder how many Barcelona sized blocks could fit? That way, you could still have a safeway under one block, a food hall under another, etc, etc.
CBBarnett said:
But it is solvable - Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal have extensive redevelopment at scale on formerly heavy industrial sites, many sites must have been far more contaminated and complex than anything we have. Just needs the right combo of market pressure and a willingness to solve some of these sticky/silly issues.
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I think Montreal would be where to look. Vancouver and Toronto accomplished this by making most other development sites or typologies impossible to build.
 
dirtymood said:
She’s been completely levelled 🥲
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Yep, she gone...
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trtcttc said:
Now we have a concrete plaza beside an asphalt parking lot, adjacent to another asphalt parking lot in one of the most central location in the city for a decade... woohoo!
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Fantastic central location, right on the Riverfront, which is one of Calgary's nicest features. My take is that this area would have been redeveloped already if it wasn't for the mentality of selling the whole parcel to one developer, and even worse, the city seems to have a habit of selling to useless developers like Harvard, and Matco. If they could do a high level master plan and sell lots individually, I think the area will get developed fairly easily.
 
Surrealplaces said:
Fantastic central location, right on the Riverfront, which is one of Calgary's nicest features. My take is that this area would have been redeveloped already if it wasn't for the mentality of selling the whole parcel to one developer, and even worse, the city seems to have a habit of selling to useless developers like Harvard, and Matco. If they could do a high level master plan and sell lots individually, I think the area will get developed fairly easily.
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Wasn't that what CMLC was founded to do? East Village hasn't been a resounding success but considering what it was 15 years ago and the limit of that area, I'd give Westbrook and Eau Claire to them instead. Not sure if the city has rules that it must go to the highest bidder, but agreed why they always give the most prime land to these companies with no track record.
 
trtcttc said:
Wasn't that what CMLC was founded to do? East Village hasn't been a resounding success but considering what it was 15 years ago and the limit of that area, I'd give Westbrook and Eau Claire to them instead. Not sure if the city has rules that it must go to the highest bidder, but agreed why they always give the most prime land to these companies with no track record.
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I believe so. I wonder if the city thought for a smaller parcel size it would be easier to bypass CMLC. I think CMLC did a decent job with EV, with most of the issues being out of their control, but I have heard rumblings that they are top heavy in administration and bureaucratic, and also that they aren't the easiest to deal with. It's only what I've heard, but it's also from more than one person.
 
Surrealplaces said:
I believe so. I wonder if the city thought for a smaller parcel size it would be easier to bypass CMLC. I think CMLC did a decent job with EV, with most of the issues being out of their control, but I have heard rumblings that they are top heavy in administration and bureaucratic, and also that they aren't the easiest to deal with. It's only what I've heard, but it's also from more than one person.
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Even from their website and presentations that wouldn't surprise me. A lot of big words on placemaking, and fancy pages on strategy. Compared to the UofC Property Group that's just busy announcing project after project in UD.

https://www.calgarymlc.ca/reports/2025-2029-strategic-plan - nice website, but why can't this just be a pdf.
 
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