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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

View attachment 669405New DP for a cool little multi project just submitted for 1730 and 1732 12 AV SW in Sunalta. Surprisingly they pack 41 units into this project, all studios and 1 bedroom! Architect is MC+A. I'm a big fan of these smaller floorplate 6-storey projects. Note, they are proposing no parking so it could be a very quick build if all goes well.
I’m also a big fan of those smaller floorplate buildings. We don’t have enough of those in Calgary.
 
After just going for a ride along the elbow river pathway and through Mount royal, Mission, etc, its hard to believe this is even the same city
New suburbs and the inner city are worlds apart. Once Cornerstone is fully grown in it may look a bit better, greenery certainly helps and is part of the charm in established areas. I live in Point McKay and this neighbourhood is gorgeous because of all the big trees and greenery, the Architecture is terrible and this area must have been quite ugly for the fist 15 years or so...
 
When he mentions a fashion hub, he's not wrong. This isn't rodeo drive but with Lululemon here, there's Arc'teryx and Fjällräven on the next block, across Tomkins Park there is West Elm. Not to mention a few other maybe not mainstream but cool shops like Purr not far away and a couple vintage clothing stores nearby.
Great redevelopment and addition. Wish they would do something similar with the Servus Bank/Reids buildings just east of here.

There’s also Anian, a clothing store from Vancouver that just opened nearby, along with a few others. Lots more happening for furniture/home too. Structube, and Silk & Snow just opened, and Cozey is opening soon under the Best Buy. Makes sense with all the new units going up in the inner-city.

Another Vancouver brand, Tality (cold plunge and sauna), is opening soon at EV606 in East Village. Lots of Vancouver interest in Calgary lately.


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Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming.


  • Barron Building (610 8th Ave. SW, Calgary) – Targeting Spring 2026 completion with 124 high end rentals;
  • One01 (101 6th Ave. SW, Calgary) – The former Hanover office tower in downtown Calgary has been renamed and will have 314 residential suites with expected occupancy in November
 
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Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming.


  • Barron Building (610 8th Ave. SW, Calgary) – Targeting Spring 2026 completion with 124 high end rentals;
  • One01 (101 6th Ave. SW, Calgary) – The former Hanover office tower in downtown Calgary has been renamed and will have 314 residential suites with expected occupancy in November
To be fair, they've been at a good pace with their Hannover conversion. I am excited to see how much the thousands of new housing units in these various conversions will impact the vibrancy of the downtown core over the next few years. For example, the Hannover conversion, when considered in addition to the residential portion of Telus Sky, likely means 1000 or more new residents on that block. We always get roasted for downtown being quiet after 5 pm (unfairly, IMO, because that also describes just about every other large North American city).

This also helps explain why we don't have a lot of residential highrises u/c (at least compared to Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver) because all these conversions represent a thousand or so units, at least, on top of all the towers Truman and others are building.
 
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Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming.


  • Barron Building (610 8th Ave. SW, Calgary) – Targeting Spring 2026 completion with 124 high end rentals;
  • One01 (101 6th Ave. SW, Calgary) – The former Hanover office tower in downtown Calgary has been renamed and will have 314 residential suites with expected occupancy in November
The title to that article definitely gave me a scare. What fool calls an acquired building downtown a Calgary tower?
 
To be fair, they've been at a good pace with their Hannover conversion. I am excited to see how much the thousands of new housing units in these various conversions will impact the vibrancy of the downtown core over the next few years. For example, the Hannover conversion, when considered in addition to the residential portion of Telus Sky, likely means 1000 or more new residents on that block. We always get roasted for downtown being quiet after 5 pm (unfairly, IMO, because that also describes just about every other large North American city).

This also helps explain why we don't have a lot of residential highrises u/c (at least compared to Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver) because all these conversions represent a thousand or so units, at least, on top of all the towers Truman and others are building.
Downtown and rail side of the Beltline have lots of new builds going on right now. There probably 1/2 dozen new builds going right now plus the 20+ conversions. On top of all the new stuff soon to start in the pipeline. We’ll never be Vancouver or Toronto because unlike those cities we have pretty much unlimited greenfield builds. The 40,000 units Calgary built last year can’t be touched by any other city (especially comparing city sizes).
 
  • An amendment to the Mission Area Redevelopment Plan is required to increase the maximum density from 395 units per hectare to 463 units per hectare.
Wasn't the Area Redevelopment Plan just superseded with the new West Elbow Local Area Plan 3 months ago? I'm curious if council will have an appetite to modify a brand new plan that took a year and a half to get through.
 
There's something similar to this in Legacy, minus the angled parking and boulevard. Using the cars parking along the side you could very realistically see how this could be a six-lane road or four driving lanes and two parking lanes.

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This is one of these streets where the sized to fit every possible need (except street trees), including street parking. Then they put front driveway homes on it, removing the ability for 95% of the street parking to occur in reality.

So there's a few million dollars of extra asphalt, no trees, ironically no parking and higher than needed liabilities in perpetuity for ever each time this road is repaved for the next 100 years. Plus it will inevitably lead to speeding and traffic calming issues, hopefully there aren't too many deaths or injuries here in the next 100 years.

Great work everyone!
 

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