Yikes, 18 months. It's been a rough year at YYC between the Westjet Mechanics' strike and the hailstorm, with a possible Air Canada strike on the horizon as well... I have flown Flair and I'd be reluctant to fly them again unless the fares resulted in massive savings. My last flight with...

Interesting! I did not know that

It is a pretty tight site, footprint-wise, so they could have been pushing close to their maximum FAR perhaps? Also a redesign to add more floors may have required changes to the elevator configuration and thus, necessitated some redesign of the interior spaces? I think once sales reach a...

Not surprising when you consider that a big chunk of Calgarians think we should follow the advice of a 91 year old former oil and gas executive rather than that of our own transit planners when it comes to building out our transit system. Also, was good to see Coun. Penner calling out the lack...

I'm excited for this one too. It's certainly the most unique design for a highrise we've had here in Calgary in quite some time. The sky garden/amenity area half way up is a cool feature and makes the diagonal bracing look structurally necessary rather than something tacked on for design...

4 cranes for Event Centre, 1 each for Imperia, Yellowstone, Francesca's, 526 4th and the Arts Commons addition seem like sure bets. Still hopeful but not supremely confident about Sovereign and Nest, and would not be surprised to see Gallery First & Tenth and WVT Tower 3 go ahead before them...

Yes they could have done a lot more to make the facade more appealing. Like you say though, the street level treatment is OK, so as long as we don't look up it'll be ok.

To Doug's point, I take great pride in Calgary's resilience. While I've lived here we've had the flood, Snowtember, hail storms, droughts, several downturns (including the brutal 2015-2021 one), the dramatic reshaping of the global energy industry, political turmoil, the recent pipe issue, and...

Coming along! That's a pretty deep parkade for a building that's only 6 floors...looks like it'll 3 or 4 floors?

When I lived in Ottawa back in the day, and they were building the Palladiam/Corel Centre/Scotiabank Place/Canadian Tire Centre, they had 4 cranes.

It's their project at 526 4 AV SW in the downtown core, right next to Caesars.

This would be a truly transformative project for the area. Such a huge project would completely shift the epicentre of 17th eastward.

I have a couple of epic lilac bushes on my lot, they are as big as trees. But with the wide bases they would not be the best for a pedestrian corridor.

So in the past week Imperia has started construction, Francesco's has announced they are also starting construction, LA Caille appears to be also starting construction (reminding everyone that a BP has been applied for, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and means it's happening...

Unfortunately The City moves at the speed of glaciers on this kind of stuff.

Don't forget it also looks like La Caille is getting moving on its downtown tower.

Lincoln isn't approved yet, and I think it will need to go to CPC. I would be surprised if Lincoln starts up before next spring, although I would love to be mistaken!

If you look at the clause for Area D that stipulates base and max density in bonusing (expressed in FAR) it says: 3.0 (7.9 for the southern portion of the parcel legally described as Plan 1910115, Block 120, Lot 51 for base, and for max including bonusing (9.0 for the southern portion of the...

I'm actually surprised there's not an Apple Store in The Core. I feel that Calgary is easily big enough to support a 3rd Apple Store. Vancouver has 5 with like 1.5x our population...

Getting a bunch more people in this struggling part of downtown, and also replacing office space that is arguably past its useful life with residents rather than a parking lot, is in itself a big win. Even a less than stellar conversion project like Cornerstone is still 1000x better than a...