That’s one thing I like about these conversions. Thousands of units suddenly appear out of nowhere. It would take 20 years to get this many greenfield residential units.

Great to see another empty lot get developed. Lots of activity along the 16th Ave corridor.

From CMLC Facebook page.

But it’s kind of like Groundhog Day. You get to relive that hopeful excitement every day!

Thought they were taking it down to the third floor then building up from there?

Might simply be stalled, fingers crossed.

With 225 hotel room and 200 res units, this thing will be tall unless it’s on one of the lots beside CPKC and is a lower bulky build.

Brick on the bottom couple of floors should almost be mandatory.

16th Ave corridor coming our way!

Excavation and shoring already!

Two more? do tell!

Calgary sorta lucked out in a way. Had downtown Calgary faced the same office building dilemma 25 years ago it might have been disastrous for the core as a whole, but these past 25 years has allowed Calgary to build up its overall core and be in position for the changes. Years back when the...

Here's the list of the metros over 500K. We won't see this kind of list very often where Toronto and Vancouver are at the bottom. Maybe one more year, but outside of that not very often if ever again. Calgary +52351 Edmonton +50717 Ottawa +38048 Montreal +25024 Winnipeg +11748 St Catherines...

It was the first time I’ve been to U/D in about two years. I was blown away by how busy it was.