Mountain Man
Senior Member
That would require thinking, and that's not what the City does.
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General Construction Updates
- Thread starter Surrealplaces
- Start date
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
A few more pics of the Mission street bridge. It has a much nicer feel in person than the previous setup.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
That turned out pretty good!
kora
Active Member
The lights on the bridge are a nice touch
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
New Lululemon location.
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
One another construction related note. A new entrance to something opening onto 17th.
AJX
Active Member
Great they’re adding a 17th Ave entrance, but ultimately it would be nice to see a whole new development and that useless parking lot gone altogether.
ShotArch
New Member
This sucks, it's such a unique building, the eve's/roof always remind me of a cruise ship when I was growing up
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
That entire parking lot should be a patio for beer drinking not for sitting cars.
Totally! I mean, it's what 6 parking spots? The space could be used for so much better. A patio in that spot would be great.
1875
Senior Member
Whoever owns it either has no money, no imagination or both
DiscoStu
Active Member
Chances are it's probably a decent revenue stream for the owner as-is, so there's not much motivation to change anything.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
While this proposal is not a dramatically large development, for many it might be an important one to watch for the cultural impact. The land use change for the building the Ship and Anchor is in goes to CPC this week:
LOC2025-0080
Trying to read the tea-leaves here for what the expected impact will be to Calgary's most famous pub. Seems like a fairly substantial project, but curious attempt to retain the existing office building where the Ship is. Perhaps that's a sign they want to keep it operating in the same location? Not sure how that would work in practice, but otherwise I don't really get why you'd preserve the existing building that's fairly obsolete.
Anyone have any theories or behind-the-scenes on this one?
I hope this is one of those cases where the developer knows they real value in their property and does whatever needs to be done to keep the gold mine that is the Ship operating.
LOC2025-0080
- 532 17 AV SW
- 534 17 AV SW (The Ship and Anchor)
Trying to read the tea-leaves here for what the expected impact will be to Calgary's most famous pub. Seems like a fairly substantial project, but curious attempt to retain the existing office building where the Ship is. Perhaps that's a sign they want to keep it operating in the same location? Not sure how that would work in practice, but otherwise I don't really get why you'd preserve the existing building that's fairly obsolete.
Anyone have any theories or behind-the-scenes on this one?
I hope this is one of those cases where the developer knows they real value in their property and does whatever needs to be done to keep the gold mine that is the Ship operating.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
The ship is supposed to be staying open during all of this as well!