CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
More like Landbank-side.
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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion
- Thread starter Surrealplaces
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Albertasaurus
Active Member
I hope you are wrong but fear you are correct
Calgcouver
Active Member
I would be surprised if they land bank actually. That’s a lot of $ out for land to not pursue a return with this and the acquisition of the Grace Hospital site. I’m inclined to think they are serious and hope they can pull both off asap
outoftheice
Active Member
Apparently the old Greyhound Station in West Village is going to be converted into Calgary Transit offices and a municipal works depot. Interesting use of the land. Better than an empty, hulking building next to a CTrain station, much worse than what the potential is for that location if they just tore down the bus depot and sold the land.
www.calgary.ca
Former Greyhound Bus Station future use
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Mountain Man
Senior Member
Disappointing, but nothing is happening on West Village until they figure out the contamination, and nobody wants to touch that currently. Might as well use the building and keep it from turning into a giant flop house...
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
This is fine. Did we really think this area was at all close to being reinvented? We're decades away from something more happening with this area, at least the building will be used. I'm curious about the Chevy dealer, they're months away from moving to the west ring road, I assume that lot will sit empty. Renfrew Chrysler is also pretty rundown, it must be only a matter of time before they're out of there.Apparently the old Greyhound Station in West Village is going to be converted into Calgary Transit offices and a municipal works depot. Interesting use of the land. Better than an empty, hulking building next to a CTrain station, much worse than what the potential is for that location if they just tore down the bus depot and sold the land.
Former Greyhound Bus Station future use
To my original point, the city likely won't look here until East Village and Victoria Park are well on their way to completion. I give that 20 years.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Also, came across this...
www.calgary.ca
The City is looks to have given some help to this and other projects. I had no idea they were doing this...
Building Envelope:
Here's the actually program website. Interesting incentives.
www.calgary.ca
Eligible projects will have access to:
420 Highland Park Low Emissions Residential Development
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The City is looks to have given some help to this and other projects. I had no idea they were doing this...
Energy Efficiency Measures
Building Envelope:
- Exterior Wall: 2x6" double stud wall @ 24” O.C. w/ dense pack cellulose insulation, fibrecement cladding
- Slab on Grade: 4" Concrete Slab + 5" EPS u/slab
- Ceiling: 2x4" Truss w/ 24" Loose Fill Insulation
- Ventilation: Electric Resistance HRV
- Heating/Cooling: Air Source Heat Pump
- Hot Water: Heat Pump Electric
Renewable Energy Systems
- 15kW solar PV system
Other Sustainability Measures
- All 6 parking stalls in garages roughed in for Level 2 EV charging
- 25% of site area designed with permeable materials to reduce water runoff
Here's the actually program website. Interesting incentives.
Green Buildings Priority Stream Program
www.calgary.ca
Program incentives
Eligible projects will have access to:
- Dedicated City staff providing general project support throughout all development review and approval stages.
- Accelerated permit reviews, including:
- development permits (and associated land use amendments where applicable)
- development site servicing plans
- erosion sediment controls
- building permits
- Preliminary building code compliance review at the development permit stage.
- Project promotion on www.calgary.ca.
- Overall corporate support from the senior leadership level.
John Wick
New Member
Will the old Greyhound building be used by Calgary Transit as a replacement site for the Victoria Park bus barns? Or just CT offices?
On Google maps it looks a bit smaller than the current bus barns site but there is the city owned GM dealership next door opening up so ...?
On Google maps it looks a bit smaller than the current bus barns site but there is the city owned GM dealership next door opening up so ...?
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
This won't replace victoria park bus barns. I think it is going to be Calgary Transits base downtown, if my reading of the website is correct.
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Mountain Man
Senior Member
I thought the plan was to move and replace the bus barns in the long term....
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
I don't think there has been money to do that. Not sure if CT has even asked for money. You would have to think bus storage in a central location is quite nice. Whatever comes next I don't see them having the opportunity for such central storage and maintenance. I don't want to see CT getting too comfortable on the west side of downtown.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
I'd rather they moved to an industrial area and left downtown alone entirely. The bus barns would be a great site to redevelop!
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
They need a presence downtown but maybe moving to Greyhound means they can move some teams out of the bus barns and start to look at moving out of the bus barns.
I'd rather see bus barns by the old Greyhound than by Vic Park. The site is choked by highways, and contaminated anyway, unlike Vic Park.
darwink
Senior Member
The motivation of moving out of Vic Park is redevelopment. Unfortunately, replacement barns will cost way more than the land value, so a subsidy will be needed, or it makes sense to wait until the end of the barn's life redevelop them