What do you think of this project?

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Maybe the quality of the material will make it shinier. I do like the plain "fake limestone" colour that the 2nd render gives off, but constance_chlore is right, where's the brick :(

The retail is a great W though. If you want an area of downtown to start having boutique retail like Mercury and Cobalt have by 124th, this is a legitimately great spot for it.
 
ChazYEG said:
I'd me okay with it if they were cladding it in red brick.
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ChatGPT to the rescue! Added Juliet balconies and black trim as well.

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At executive committee today, Edgar spoke in favour of the Downtown Attainable Housing Fund.
In doing so, he shared that this project was approved as part of Student Housing Grant. So of the approx 280 units, 150 will be reduced rates for students. At $30,000 per unit, that is $4.5 million city grant.
He also shared that he hopes the other 130 units in this project will be funded through this Attainable Housing Grant, which Coun. Stevenson said works out to about $26,000. So @130 units x $26k, that would be another $3.38 million or in total $7.78million support for this project.

It was my hope that the Student Incentive dollars would fund a bunch of projects and the Attainable Housing Grant would fund another series of different projects - not one housing project receiving funds from 2 different grants - if that ends up being the case.

Edgar did say the grant money does allow a builder to enhance the materials being used such as brick instead of stucco - so maybe we end up with brick like the image above.
 
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TAS said:
At executive committee today, Edgar spoke in favour of the Downtown Attainable Housing Fund.
In doing so, he shared that this project was approved as part of Student Housing Grant. So of the approx 280 units, 150 will be reduced rates for students. At $30,000 per unit, that is $4.5 million city grant.
He also shared that he hopes the other 130 units in this project will be funded through this Attainable Housing Grant, which Coun. Stevenson said works out to about $26,000. So @130 units x $26k, that would be another $3.38 million or in total $7.78million support for this project.

It was my hope that the Student Incentive dollars would fund a bunch of projects and the Attainable Housing Grant would fund another series of different projects - not one housing project receiving funds from 2 different grants - if that ends up being the case.

Edgar did say the grant money does allow a builder to enhance the materials being used such as brick instead of stucco - so maybe we end up with brick like the image above.
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Gotta be a concrete build like all of their other builds…cool warehouse style windows and what? $60M build.
 
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TAS said:
At executive committee today, Edgar spoke in favour of the Downtown Attainable Housing Fund.
In doing so, he shared that this project was approved as part of Student Housing Grant. So of the approx 280 units, 150 will be reduced rates for students. At $30,000 per unit, that is $4.5 million city grant.
He also shared that he hopes the other 130 units in this project will be funded through this Attainable Housing Grant, which Coun. Stevenson said works out to about $26,000. So @130 units x $26k, that would be another $3.38 million or in total $7.78million support for this project.

It was my hope that the Student Incentive dollars would fund a bunch of projects and the Attainable Housing Grant would fund another series of different projects - not one housing project receiving funds from 2 different grants - if that ends up being the case.

Edgar did say the grant money does allow a builder to enhance the materials being used such as brick instead of stucco - so maybe we end up with brick like the image above.
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8mil to a single project seems excessive tbh…
 
I do feel like some of the retching in threads like this has gotten a bit performative. Yes, it's disappointing given how high our expectations were; yes, we should hope for (and push for) better. But we don't even really know what we're looking at, e.g. what cladding material the renders depict. (And honestly, if it turns out looking like the render I think it'd be better than Westrich's nearby projects...)
 
Depending on the final materials I’m actually ok with this. It’ll be nice to see those parking lots that took up pretty much the entire side of the street gone.

Though I do hope once market conditions improve we do start to see some high rises built in and around DT and not just 6 storey wood frames everywhere.
 
constance_chlore said:
I do feel like some of the retching in threads like this has gotten a bit performative. Yes, it's disappointing given how high our expectations were; yes, we should hope for (and push for) better. But we don't even really know what we're looking at, e.g. what cladding material the renders depict. (And honestly, if it turns out looking like the render I think it'd be better than Westrich's nearby projects...)
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I think the westrich project next door to this will look better than this if this is built in the form that was posted.
 
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