Finally cladding. I was expecting more detail in the panels, Hariri Pontarini usually does something bespoke. I don't have high hopes for these off coloured stripes/trim covering the whole tower but, it's too early call. Wear sun glasses and sunscreen. These do have quite a sheen to them.

Subsidizing suburbs is overplayed whataboutism. It shouldn't matter if its subsidizing downtown or a suburban business park Bailing out commercial property owners is par for the course. Major commercial developments get subsidizes at the best of times. Of course, other cities are going to use...

That's different. The podium is all glass while the towers is a composition of glass and punched windows in precast

That is quite the ramp. Too bad they couldn't connect that side directly to the cancer centre.

I could die here happy https://www.wellingsofcalgary.com/virtual-tour/

I don't know about that. McDavid could probably have this built by opening day.

point being 115 units available out of 420 is not 90% sold

You don't want to replant trees in the dog days of summer either.

I wouldn't say the materials are better. They are better executed in a better design. Do you have to join a cult to live here?

Dumb turns to awesome if they follow with a second phase called Kat. This is the same developer that has a tower called Bridge at Bridgeland. This naming theme is probably here to stay

Yeah, I'm making an assumption that the high rise boom in Ottawa reflects more housing starts in Ottawa than in previous years. I would also surmise Calgary has been outpacing Ottawa in housing starts for decades. It's like saying Calgary isn't booming because it only has a fraction of the...

The development covers a whole block. It has multiple street frontages. I cannot believe that this is the only place to put it. The city of Calgary allowing it in an alternative location is another matter. Other cities encourage parking and loading off the main pedestrian street. Having it off...

Highrise starts have cratered in Toronto * to the benefit of Hamilton. London pumps out a few high rises every year for as long as I can remember. That's all I know about London. Ottawa's boom appears to be expanding in 2024. Ottawa's largest employer is the federal government and the federal...

The Elm and Ledbury would be a high rise and a five or six storey medium rise in another place where there aren't the development pressure to maximum densities. A third to half the units here and with respects to the office/residential skyscraper have views into other people's apartments. The...

FFS

Every one of the hundreds of towers to break ground in Toronto in the past two decades has been built. Even a Cresford bankruptcy didn't leave their sites in peril for very long. The One continues rising too. What is happening here is novel for the city. It's better than the graffiti towers in...

Cities can subsidize development to accelerate construction but, they simply can't afford it on a large scale at today's prices. The Trudeau government is investing another $15 billion to accelerate the construction of 30,000 units across Canada. 30,000 is a drop in the bucket. It's less than a...

Yup. There's cooking and there's opening a box of food and heating it. That "kitchen" is indefensible.

Place for renters to get a meal of value instead of having to cook one in their fancy Master Chef toy kitchen play set

There are certainly cheaper options in generating foot traffic to make a place desirable for real estate investment. It's one hour before an event and a few hours afterwards as foot traffic will be non existent during the event. It's like rush hour which is universally agreed upon as time...