Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

[Surrealplaces]

Welcome to the Urban Development and Proposal Discussion Thread
A thread for discussion on proposed developments and general urban development.

 

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101 – 11th Avenue SE	5th and Macleod	1134-1160 Memorial Drive	11th + 11th	11th Avenue Place	1215

	1520	16 Ave CO-OP	17 Select	1741	500 Block	950 McPherson SQ

ALT Hotel	Archer

 

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Arris 5th & Third	August	Aura	Avenue	Avenue 33	Avli

Beacon	BLK60	BMO Expansion	Brentwood Commons	Bridgeland Crossing	Bridgeland Hill

Brio	Brookfield Place

 

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Calgary Cancer Centre		Calgary City Centre	Calgary City Centre West	Chinatown Proposal	Cambridge Manor	Capella

Catalyst	Centro	COCO	Columbus Court	Courtyard 33	Crosstown

Cube	Currie

 

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Delaney	Deville	Dominion	Dorian	Eau Claire Market Re-dev	Eau Claire Tower

Eau Claire West	Eisenberg	Era	EV Hilton	Evolution	Ezra

Elva

 

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Fifteen15	First	Fish Creek Exchange	Genco 634	Groves of Varisty	Grow

Guardian	Harmony One	Harrison	Highcliffe	Hive	I.D. Inglewood

Infinity	INK

 

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Irvine	Kahanoff Two	Kensington Legion	Kensington Mixed Use	King Edward Art Incubator	Kings on 4th

Lido	Louis on 9th	Lumino III	Lusso	Lyfe Marda Loop	M2 Block

MacKimmie Complex	Mantra

 

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Maple	Marda	Mark on 10th	Marquee on 16th	Meredith Block	Myriad

N3	New Central Library	Niche One	NUDE	Oakridge CO-OP	One Tower

One 6	Orchard

 

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Oxford Tower	Palfreyville Apartments	Park Point	Parkside	Place 10	Platform

Portfolio	Portflio East	Radius	Redstone	Residence Inn	Riverwalk

Royal Park	Southbank

 

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The Livery	The Royal	The Theodore	The Windsor	Tigerstedt Block	Trinity Hills

Underwood Tower	Uptown Westbrook	University District Rhapsody	Versus	Verve	Waterfront

West 17	West Village Towers	Westmount	Yellowstone	YWCA

 

[Operater]

Hi Again,

Hey Urban Warrior, I DON'T Fault You for your remarks at All. Its When I read that places Like Edmonton have Plans to Build 75 and 80 Flr Bldgs and We DON'T, then I feel Something isn't quite right - Rightfully So. I Read a Lot on Urban Toronto so My Experience of close to 40 Yrs in Calgary - My Home I take the Outlook that We Can Do Better - A LOT Better then We are Doing Really. I Look at MORE then Just DT so, its the outline areas as well as I Saw a Lot Happening When I Worked in Courier Land,. NO Bad Feelings but Yes I am a bit BIASED in Favour of DT/Beltine/Mission as that was my Main Work Areas - so I Have Positive Feelings and Perhaps Rightfully so. No Bad Feelings. I want very much to see Calgary do Better and I believe it Can. DT/Beltline/Mission has a Lot of Growth and Redevelopement Opp0rtunities. I hope to B Part of It in My own Special Ways as I lived and Worked in the Areas, No Regrets.

Thanks,
Operater,

 

[maestro]

Edmonton is going the wrong direction with things. It needs lots and lots of intensification and not vanity projects. Everyone is now jumping on the Katz bandwagon proposing 40, 50, 80 storeys. The market just isn't large enough. All these proposals are just wasting time. Katz got some great handouts too.

 

[Silence&Motion]

All the supertalls and starchitecture in the world will never make me prefer this to this.

Nothing against height - in fact, Calgary could use much, much more height - but we should focus on improving density and walkability rather than trying to make a statement with big development projects.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Yep. As far as recent projects in Calgary go, we don't need to give Edmonton or Winnipeg a run for their money. Been there done that.
Calgary needs to go after bigger game like Toronto and Vancouver. Some of the development in East Village is getting there, projects like Telus Sky and the library are in that zone.

Yeah, I mean, Brookfield Place, NMC, NCL, 707, Telus Sky, Evolution, and in my opinion, Mark on Tenth and Sixth and Tenth, are all on par with what's being built in Toronto and Vancouver, and in some cases exceed what's going on in those cities. For a time, I believe in 2014, we were even building more than Montreal and Vancouver (not counting Van's suburbs), which is insane for a city our size to be doing over 40 high-rise projects at one time. Calgary is transforming right before our eyes.

 

[Always_Biking]

Glad it's not just me that feels this way. Urban form and the street level environment is important, much, much more important than tall towers. Tall towers are okay if you already have solid built up urban form a la NYC, Toronto. Cities with empty lots need to concentrate on those first.

Calgary needs to fill up some of those lots with low and mid rise buildings. Edmonton's case is even worse because they have more empty lots that need to be filled, and are building 2 or 3 really tall buildings when what they really need is 20-30 low/mid rises buildings.

Edmonton is going the wrong direction with things. It needs lots and lots of intensification and not vanity projects. Everyone is now jumping on the Katz bandwagon proposing 40, 50, 80 storeys. The market just isn't large enough. All these proposals are just wasting time. Katz got some great handouts too.

All the supertalls and starchitecture in the world will never make me prefer this to this.
Nothing against height - in fact, Calgary could use much, much more height - but we should focus on improving density and walkability rather than trying to make a statement with big development projects.