Land transfer is a cash cow but, a tremendous tax burden for just about anyone. I'm not too keen on discounts or exemptions noble cause or not.

4th Street Lofts is only 97 metres tall. The drawing is in the first post https://calgary.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/calgary-4th-street-lofts-115m-29s-western-securities-gibbs-gage.32858/#post-1748528 or a clearer version on Page 28 here...

Kinda ugly lower middle class family homes will be multi-million dollar condos wedged between skyscrapers. It's all weird and very Toronto. The attention given to these to renovate and restore while other significantly grander structures and where the replacement is the neighbourhood oddity face...

40 times coverage 861 units in 54,000 square metres 74 car and 259 bike spaces for 861 units. forget the rendering. these are deplorable stats for living conditions.

The DP has many more mullions, different panels widths and, a darker tint for spandrel glass. I recall it stating these are subject to change so I wouldn't count the Chicago facade completely out. NORR is a multi-national, multi-office firm. They also attached their name to grey spandrel...

Oh my! The penthouse is the new lowest of the low for office conversions. They don't even want to render it in the advertising.

I don't think rental equipment is a consideration in moving forward on a 9 figure project.

The GTA had 73 built skyscrapers in 2019. Today, it's up to 113 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=106972872 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=106972877 Chicago had 129 in 2019 and, 139 today.

It's either a dirt patch or more apartments. City building at its finest

SoBo is near but so far. It's drivable than walkable. I wouldn't call it great for multi-family densification.

That building looks as inviting as a data centre. It was just office space with turnstile security. It wasn't a carrier hotel with server farms also called datacentres

That's the point. Adding skyscrapers on giant parking podiums into sprawl doesn't change the sprawl. It just adds a ton more people living by that sprawl. And the precedence should this be built is replace that sprawl with suffocating vertical sprawl for tens of thousands of people that have no...

What if you own a property and you desire to remove the contaminated soil that goes down 8 feet up to the property line? Shouldn't you be able to get a shoring and excavation permit?

Yeah, it may reinvigorate the mall but, what about the unfortunate souls that have to live there? It's as hostile a built form as the urban sprawl mall. Some will love it taking the elevator to the parking garage to drive around the parking garage to go across the street to another maze of a...

The crazies are in control on both sides of the political spectrum. This fear mongering is no longer valid. Transit is highly lucrative through upzoning around stations to the most powerful players in the nation. I wouldn't be worried over conservative lobbying at the federal level cancelling...

Reality? A rezoning application is not predestined to develop anything here. I can't see them tearing down a quarter million square feet which further complicates building a residential tower here.

The parkland dedication is dumb but, it's an easy compromise for the developer and city. An offsite dedication of any stature with the going rate of a 50 storey price tag will take contributions from many, many developments. It's a logistic nightmare. Yonge Eglinton is exploding with dense...

The is a class A heritage property on just about any list. This is a disgrace. First. This is probably no more than a valuation play. I doubt there is any intent to build. I don't think Dubai has a 200 metre student accommodation. Second, the pressing need for student housing and a cause of the...

The problem here is having a combined sewage/storm overflow into the lake. Legacy of a lifetime ago when Toronto cheaped out by building combined sewer systems but, here I though the multi-million, massive storage tanks remedied that except in the very worst scenarios. Clearly, if those are...

I'm not for rushing changes to the master plan to get something erected quicker. The phase 2 site should remain zoned commercial. In the meantime, Hines should be encouraged to do something with the site that benefits the community and themselves.