Not the best quality image (quick shot with just my smartphone camera), but here's how the lighting looked last night.

The Curtis block is demolished and the Arby's is reportedly gone as well. The remaining building on the north side of the block is included in the scope of the larger development but there's no active demolition permit on the site as of yet. The office building on the southwest corner of the...

My main concern is that blank wall at grade along the side of the LRT portal. Unavoidable I'm sure, due to concerns about noise and vibrations, but hopefully they can paint a mural or do something else interesting with it.

Who expended a lot of energy on the bike lanes? It was a $10 million pilot (which I will remind everyone, came in under budget). There's no need it needed to be a huge fight except for people like Chu who figured they could make political hay out of it. We have a heavily, suburban conservative...

I'd say successful already, but I'm really looking forward to five years from. Not least of which because EV is on my doorstep. Really looking forward to having another grocery store in the area, in particular.

My money is on Naheed winning by a healthy margin. Incumbents in local races have enormous advantages that you have to be very unpopular to overcome. His approval rating was last pegged around 52%. That's a big drop from 2011 (he was around 86% at the time) but it's still in Obama territory, and...

Thanks. I've updated my post to reflect this info.

I'm actually kinda surprised the numbers weren't a lot higher.

Not a big fan myself. I'd prefer a candidate that is more forward thinking and brings more to the table in terms of experience. I can't emphasize enough how important it is that each candidate bring their A-game and get the maximum amount of outreach possible. I canvassed for a campaign in the...

It's really hard to give recommendations right now, as it's really early in the campaign. Most candidates that you line up against each other will have vaguely similar-sounding policy lines, and it would take far to long to do an analysis of their individual media posts to really dig out the...

A reminder to everyone in Beltline who live's east of 4th St SW (and those in Mission and Erlton). You are no longer in Ward 8, but rather in Ward 11, where Cllr Brian Pincott is leaving his seat. It's an open race, so it'll be important for every candidate to have as much coverage as possible...

It saddens me greatly to see what SSP turned into over the last little while. It was at one time the first place to go for the latest on Calgary development, and we had lots of insider news and leaks. The majority of posters back then were people who loved the city, loved development, loved art...

Hey folks. Migrating here from SSP, where I'm a long time contributor (I've gone by Boris up to this point). Hello to Surreal and all of you who know me so well already. I was born in Edmonton and have lived in Calgary since '94. I got big into cities back in high school after I took a big trip...