darwink
Senior Member
I believe the Calgary Housing Portfolio is being invested in to preserve units after the Bridgeland debacle.
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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion
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UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
I don’t think we’ve seen this on here before, but this is what Zeidler is doing to the ground floor of Nexen Tower. Not bad, nice even.
zeidler.com
801 7th Avenue Progresses
Standing in the west end of downtown Calgary, we reimagined the building’s public spaces including main floor lobby, atrium, and plus-15 level.
zeidler.com
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Nice, isn't this empty?I don’t think we’ve seen this on here before, but this is what Zeidler is doing to the ground floor of Nexen Tower. Not bad, nice even.
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801 7th Avenue Progresses
Standing in the west end of downtown Calgary, we reimagined the building’s public spaces including main floor lobby, atrium, and plus-15 level.
darwink
Senior Member
It had a high vacancy, even before Covid hit. I remember going the building during lunch hour a couple of times and the +15 was empty with only a couple of businesses open.
LocalLoafer
New Member
I have noticed the Nexen building is a lot busier recently compared to this time last year. Have they possibly added some tenants?
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Is that space currently an indoor garden? probably full of dead plants since the building is long vacant.
thecivilengineer
New Member
i have noticed there's some sort of work going on for couple of months.
thecivilengineer
New Member
i was wondering if we can have flagship store in downtown of some major retailers like Apple?
Albertasaurus
Active Member
I'm actually surprised there's not an Apple Store in The Core. I feel that Calgary is easily big enough to support a 3rd Apple Store. Vancouver has 5 with like 1.5x our population...
thecivilengineer
New Member
i feel like people are attracted towards these sort of brands so they will always visit it.
trtcttc
Active Member
Doesn't look like it, most of the floors are available. It's probably tough to attract smaller tenants when so much of the building is empty, there's just a lack of amenities and services and its location isn't the most central.
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trtcttc
Active Member
They should at least refurbish the store at Chinook and Market. Chinook still has the Genius logos on the back wall and the dim metallic silver appearance looks pretty dated
outoftheice
Active Member
Update on the Olympic Plaza design work. While I'm happy to hear that they are contemplating a skating rink in the design, I hope they recognize that what people love about Olympic Plaza currently is that the skating rink has refrigeration so it is one of the only outdoor rinks in the city that offers a quality skating experience throughout the winter Chinook cycle. Just having a flat surface they can flood to make the same kind of backyard quality outdoor rink that can be found in dozens of Calgary communities would be an extreme disappointment but something tells me that is probably the direction they are headed. I would hate to see the splash park/fountain feature dissappear as well as that is a strong draw for people in the summer months but it doesn't get much of a mention anywhere.
www.calgarymlc.ca
Olympic Plaza Transformation Project Update | Downtown | Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
CMLC shares key findings from public engagement and next steps for construction preparation, invites Calgarians to commemorate Olympic bricks.
DiscoStu
Active Member
Clearly I haven't been to Olympic plaza in a long time, but I didn't realize that it too has its own collection of dense poles. Now I see where the Eau Claire inspiration came from. It's our thing!