What’s your preference then?

The population has barely increased. So few apartments and townhomes developments, I do not imagine the community can support a grocery-anchor tenant yet. Will need to see more residential density to support it i would imagine with EV Superstore.

Vertical wood-tone material on the lower balcony insets is nice. Will work with the brick. Tired of dark coloured (black) spandrel and windows. Would be keen to see something lighter or more interesting. Will probably turn out decent though.

Last ditch effort, as the brick change suggestion worked and it seems to be around the BP timeframe. Whatever material is being used for the white on the balconies would look really good in a bronze or similar tone. Only do it if it is cost effective and an easy change. Would warm it up, make it...

Exterior materials and design make or break a project. Brick is too expensive to do over this type of project comparatively to other cladding systems in Calgary - but if high-quality exteriors were the goal and anyone paid attention to the urban design and architecture with an eye on...

Ugh, thinking about it, they will probably leave those portions white on the black vertical metal siding sections - as they have already attached the railing and it would be a nightmare to mask off the railing and glass insert to colour match the exterior trim. Bummer and looks like a mistake...

They still do janky curb lines on brand new development in areas under the public realm setbacks table. Lo and behold...

They will fuck this up terribly. if the downtown team is worth what they are paid they would be publicly presenting streetscape master plans by now. but I am sure it will be maintained back to the existing outdated standard. It will be all asphalt and curb fixes as existing and no changes or...

The city seems to want to do everything in base land use districts usually without doing a DC. If they created density bonusing guidelines and attached them to DCs they could do that but they don’t seem to want to.

It likely depends on if they have a partner in tow that can make a concrete rental project make sense like Harrison Street in UD. This site has the same revenue assumptions, has a lot of upside. Could see the low rise go condo though

Damn this project was killing it until these stupid trims around the slider doors. Anyone know why they didnt require trim on the sliders with cantilevered balconies above but needed them them for the Juliet balconies? I assume it is just to give the Juliet balcony something to attach to that...

Nice work on this one Sarina! Kind of the first foray into something closer to Greenfield development (although it is kind of infill) on a larger site. A step in terms of financing and equity requirements i would imagine - but a solid model for growth they have built coming from smaller project...

Totally crazy proposition - could Co-op and Shopper's use red brick instead of bright red ACM panel instead for there facade on the retail? Would look way less shitty

Leonard is crushing it - only thing i'd say is to not do everything monotone white and black. Bring in some warmth and colour for variation. They use Hardie products and Plygem windows, so would suggest Cobblestone, Aged Pewter and/or Rich Espresso in the Statement Collection for James Hardie...

Fuck this development, support Luke's Drug Mart. Don't care about the challenging-to-lease second floor medical office space. The architect did a good job with the prompt though I do think it looks good just don't care for the uses in it for this neighbourhood unless it has smaller CRU's facing...