DougB
Active Member
Nope. I can do math. No way those will be Level 3 if the entire park budget is less than $700K
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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion
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Tarsus
Active Member
In all fairness I didn’t know ‘Oriental’ was a racist term either until just now after Googling it.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
All about 200m from a shiny and new LRT station (designed with heavy CMLC involvement) at Victoria Park lauded for increasingly it's accessibility. What a waste of energy for a modest park improvement. With all the car-orientation of their projects (Platform, Stampede Trail, 17 Ave extension, new car-accommodating underpasses randomly proposed) CLMC is quickly revealing itself to be remarkably car-enabling in some of our best walkable opportunity areas.
Of course, they will coach this in the spirit of a need to "balance" modes, but that's a fallacy - you can't balance cars in highly urban areas, without weird outcomes liike 1/3 of parks being parking lots .
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BKha
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As someone with an “oriental” background, I’ll offer my two cents. It depends on the person, and the context. It isn’t racist to me, but more misguided or improper. There are some very specific racist terms that have been used for people from my part of the world and the people using them are purposely being racist, but when someone refers to me as “oriental” or even “Asian”, I think if it as misguided, or mislabelled.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
Overly dramatic title for not dramatic development.
Certus Development plans dramatic development in Chinatown
During his studies at the University of Calgary, Jim Mitchell took a position with Colliers to learn as much as he could about commercial real estate. He…calgaryherald.com
sameg
New Member
Have we seen any renderings of the Marda Loop development by Certus referenced in that article?
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
That Chinatown development is already well underway.
Just build it
Active Member
Certus has done good stuff in the past, I’m glad to see they’re doing more projects in the city.
MichaelS
Senior Member
No, not yet.
artvandelay
Active Member
Somebody tell Oriental Phoenix!
artvandelay
Active Member
Regardless of how long it takes to charge, it's bizarro to include parking of any sort in an urban park in a dense neighbourhood like this.
Enoch Park in Beltline to get sport courts, dog park
Enoch Park, one of Calgary’s Beltline greenspaces, could be getting major upgrades later this summer for both local area residents and for visitors to the downtown. Among the changes proposed…livewirecalgary.com
Seems like a good proposal, other than the EV charging stations seem pointless (i.e. no-one is going to hang out at an inner city park for four plus hours to charge their car). Would be even better if the proposal included the entire block. I'm unsure who owns the eastern section of the block as that was once a hotel/gym proposal.
I'm assuming this is more of a temporary activation of the existing parking lot rather than an actual expansion of the park. I.e. this portion of the lot will still be developed at some point in the future.
Cyric
Active Member
Absolutely, if you look at the proposal drawing it is bolt down bollards, paint, planter boxes, picnic tables and shipping containers. Should be a great and fairly cheap change to the area. This will get more people out using the park and eliminate 100+ parking stalls in the short term while still leaving the site ready for a full redevelopment in the future when the demand is there.
outoftheice
Active Member
It was hard to get a good picture because of the construction fencing, but some interesting lighting standards and a bunch of decorative posts being added around the Eau Claire construction site. Looks intriguing.
