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  1. darwink

    General Construction Updates

    A worthy experiment of pushing the lease-able space to maximum and reducing common costs given the constraints.
  2. darwink

    Statscan numbers

    Add to the anecdote on Ukrainians for home renovation projects. Our window teams was definitely people who had spent years in Western Europe installing windows, and who moved to Canada with the surge due to the war. The non-refugee pathway seems to have been the right choice on behalf of the...
  3. darwink

    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    Explains the Shorts Skyvan at Longview in the aerial shots: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/de-havilland-eyes-restarting-production-shorts-cargo-sherpa
  4. darwink

    Statscan numbers

    Statscan's model is a bit broken right now due to temporary residence surges. As it recalibrates with major temporary residence program changes rolling out over the next two years, we should see a stalling out and maybe even a retreat of population numbers. The Covid post-graduate work permit...
  5. darwink

    Calgary Regional Rail Transit

    Nope.
  6. darwink

    Calgary | Calgary Event Centre | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

    I believe those concepts were for a much smaller capacity arena. You can also see the project overflowing across the street on the last photo, for utilities and loading dock access from a cut off street. Over time, either the flexibility in the site that was expected didn't happen, or the brief...
  7. darwink

    Calgary | Calgary Event Centre | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

    they attempted to ape that on the west side of the old design as best they could given how pushed up the arena was to the edges of the site, so hopefully a more fulsome expression of that is possible.
  8. darwink

    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Ok, that is pretty cool looking.
  9. darwink

    Calgary | Calgary Event Centre | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

    oh, to have a relatively unconstrained site with no need to relate to its surroundings 🤣
  10. darwink

    Calgary | Calgary Event Centre | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

    You can see how Little Ceasars is getting close to that concept without going inverted. I think with the larger footprint, there is less need for compromises. With a larger footprint, it is easy to place items more optimally, like all the utility/backup equipment. It is sad really, a bit more...
  11. darwink

    Calgary | Calgary Event Centre | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

    They’d have to shrink the seat count to do so. So unlikely.
  12. darwink

    General Construction Updates

    Crowchild? Glenmore? Spent hundreds of millions making those free flow. Not many people going from Killarney to Britannia.
  13. darwink

    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Must have a non exclusive option at least. Or I’d hope!
  14. darwink

    Calgary | Calgary Event Centre | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

    I dunno. 70 years ago it looks like it was a vibrant working neighbourhood. Before judging neighbourhoods, I try to check the perspective I had as a suburban west hill kid thinking Crescent Heights was run down and not nice. It was a pretty limiting perspective then, and I suspect those in a...
  15. darwink

    Calgary International Airport

    Any time a plane isn't moving, it isn't making money, and we're speculating about adding 787s not a choice between adding 787s or two 737s. . IMO 787s really degrade the passenger experience in PVR. Maybe the airport will finally upgrade itself enough? But I doubt it.

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