Okay, I did the deep dive into this. The most detailed industry breakdowns available at the CMA level (304 different industry groups) provide more detail than the higher level summaries often given, which provides a clearer picture of the oilpatch employment. The definition can get as blurry as...

The big challenge is that the other team in SLC is really well established and plays at the exact same time as the hockey team. In the non-traditional and new hockey markets, there's: 4+ team cities - Los Angeles, Dallas, SF Bay Area (if you count the Sharks as a Bay Area team), Miami. These...

I think it's important to have a substantial urgent care centre in the middle of the city, given the huge daytime population (and pretty substantial nighttime population) nearby -- many of whom are without cars, making transport to a hospital harder. But an actual real-deal hospital is so much...

I told you to look at the headlines, not to actually read the stories.

Look at these headlines and tell me Salt Lake City isn't already primed to be a big hockey market: How Utah drove the Stanley cup craze Erin Alberty ~3 minutes Stanley cup mania has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks — nothing new in Utah, but now we're getting credit...

The parking already exists and most of it sits vacant all the time; this is just repurposing the inside of part of the existing complex. The main occupants include AHS cancer support services (I believe in the portion labelled Family Medicine wing on the plan), a Carewest facility with ~100 beds...

17th Ave can't have any car-free times because of the need for parking, says the owner of a 350 seat bar, which presumably would go under if it didn't have access to all of this street parking: Now that's a real crew cab! 2 bucket seats in the front, and 348 in the back, I assume.

Stephen Ave today. It's great that they're getting ready to have patio season, but how can they let cars drive on it? It's the busiest pedestrian street in the city, and the open sidewalk (with the patio fences, the sandwich boards and with cars in the street) is less than 2 feet wide. Once...

Some of it is just good old fashioned government policy. This area structure plan for "Crowchild 'C'": (what is now Sandstone, Macewan and most of Edgemont, Hawkwood and Arbour Lake) is a 1979 plan that says "An optimum overall density of 22 persons per gross developable acre should be sought."...

I pulled some data a while ago from the 2015 GHSL, which is a fine-level grid of global population. Here's the cumulative population distributions by density for Calgary, Edmonton (Vancouver as another point of reference) CMAs and the six US metros mentioned in the video (plus an average of all...

US metro areas are defined entirely by their commuter sheds. CMA (and the US equivalent) CBSA aren't just based on vibes or whatever, they're based on commuting flows. The Canadian rule is that an area needs to have 50% of their workers commuting into the centre to be counted as part of the...

I hope I was one of the ones confused by the video; why would you spend a bunch of time showing renders of a design you haven't done? That makes no sense whatsoever. I thought they were going 1 for 3. (On the chance that this is a proposed design for the plaza or the reclad; if your design is...

Here's before the tree removal: And recently: A couple more shots of the retaining wall:

Chill out, tiger. There are five (5) whole blocks of street in Calgary that do not have cars on them for less than half of the day, and even they were designed with substantial consideration for cars. We have never once designed a street by figuring out how wide the cycling/wheeling facilities...

Everytime I hear about the inverted bowl design, this springs to mind... Now that's an efficent use of space to pack in fans!

This is prep work for the Mission Bridge rehab, which also includes repairing the retaining wall, which is in pretty rough shape. It's unfortunate that it doesn't seem to include ped/bike improvements like were done on the east side of the Mission Bridge about 15 years ago.

Good point! I've annotated the 1972 photo with what the neighbourhood was developed into 50 years later. As you point out, highrise redevelopment and event centres were the only two things that were or could ever possibly be done here, so what's the difference?

I didn't realize this, but there is already north BRT construction work underway. Link to project page. There are new stations being built at Country Hills Blvd, 96th Ave, Beddington mall area, 78th, 64th, 56th, 40th and 28th Aves. The only one with a pull-out layby is 78th, which is a...

I support the move, I hope it'll help discourage people from blocking bike lanes with snow. I wonder how this will play out .... * flashback music begins playing * * dreamy flashback music fades out * Thousands of warnings, but only a handful of tickets? 34 reported fall injuries...

A question for the various folks on here who have good perspectives on infilll development: There are a handful of areas, like Rosedale, Hounsfield Heights and Roxboro (as well as the central part of Hillhurst not on 10th/14th/Kensington) that are today basically exclusively SFD. They have...