This is very cool, lots of potential for street-level activity and dense. I think it would be cool to see a bit more articulation or height in some areas of the podium just to break up the monotony a bit. Looks like a great addition.

I like how there are several connections from Lakeview but I think it is not nearly urban enough. Looks like wide roads, garden-city planning with lots of surface parking lots to kill anything urban-like... it's very dull. With the reservoir nearby, there is no realistic lack of amenity space...

$35 million for the overpass? (thanks for sharing the video) What would be the cost of a connection to Westbrook (LRT above ground) $50m / km? $200 million?

Obviously that is the captive audience. You could build garbage and they would come.

@MichaelS really appreciate the link, thank you. I need to double back a bit on opinion now that I've dived into the uses and the plan that was provided. It is a corridor site, not a residential site, I love the hotel which will be a great amenity for the hospital. The massing / building...

My thoughts: 1. Inglewood's history is real estate speculators wanting to get the train to inflate their real estate values and make it the core of the city. Beautiful facades, cheap buildings. I would say that density is strongly in favour of that history. 2. Who the developer is matters, of...

The new facitility will include 100 private units with private washrooms, 90 childcare spaces, in-house employment and counselling resources, a fitness and wellness space, and a community kitchen. It's a project fully developed by women, with an all-female executive board and architectural...

That strip mall is actually quite successful since it was refaced, I struggle to see how a mixed use is a higher value for that site. Har-Par sold their cigarette-burn portfolio behind Chinook and surrounding area earlier this year at a valuation of $208,000 / door. Proximity to that train...

Overall, it looks like a business campus on the edge of a residential neighbourhood with engineering-firm sized floorplates. Honestly, if this is approved, did the community have any objections on this? It is ugly. I would not want to live next to this...given its not a beautiful neighbourhood...

I'm going to take the render as a "massing only" image. It looks like a suburb business park / ugly university campus massing. It is frankly pretty terrible. I personally don't like big green spaces on these bigger plots. It is just a waste, better off to throw some townhomes and a bit of a grid...

A few of my quick thoughts 1. Parking at 1.15 / unit still makes sense in Edmonton DT. Nearby rental buildings at that ratio of parking have to rent parking elsewhere because they ran out of parking for their tenants. I personally contend Garneau & area is the only bona-fide live/work/play...

Sticker shock is pretty intense. $19.5 million, so based on 122 units $160,000 per unit. Fucking crazy. Even for land + U/G (assuming it is completed and no repairs required). Land at $50 - 65k / unit for this area sure. U/G should be $50k / stall, rough numbers. Where is the extra $45k /...

Site Area: +/- 40,729 Square Feet Current Status: Site has active building permits in place as well as a partially built parkade structure. Opportunity exists to inherit and complete current building. Land Use: DC 41Z2022 Site 14 (Direct Control) Located just blocks from the Bow River, the...

CBRE has the listing. Just got the email today.

Fortunately/unfortunately most of us seem to be pretty much agreeing. Tangibly, what would make the difference? Rough sketches: 1. As-right development permit availability at planner's discretion with higher tolerance threshold (remove community consultation, put a price on additional density /...

Some really passionate writers in here - I like it. A couple of cents from me (mostly subjective views): 1) Vibrancy can't be fabricated - it tends to be emergent. The burbs generally have very generic shopping, commodity retail, Starbucks, credit tenants but are super boring and have a...

Thanks @JonnyCanuck, the difference is that Strategic Group redevelopments will be at a commodity level rental whereas Metropolitan is millennial focused (but lacking near amenities). Any info on 11th & 11th, I didn't see it on the map? Personally, I don't think Barron will go, too beefy. I can...

Anyone know about this: "An innovative project in Calgary’s southwest beltline district is the planned conversion of the Stephenson Block at the corner of 11th Avenue and 11th Street into a rental apartment block. Strategic believes there is a strong demand in the area for more residential so...

I really like the design and it's something unique - I think guys are a bit too hard on Lamb. He is trying to bring something unique. The location for this makes me scratch my head though. 75% presales is surprising goal... you can usually get off the ground with 35% with a good track record...

@Habanero yeah... do you know of a city that has been able to enforce / effectively encourage that? Projects like West Village Towers for example... big improvement but mega block developments have a resort-like mentality - amenities look cool in renders but are pretty much islands to...