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    Statscan numbers

    Seems like the biggest growth is in the work permits. What are the industries that are recruiting a lot of foreign workers?
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    Statscan numbers

    Question for those in the know, what are the primary drivers of temporary residents (student/work visa) in Alberta? That accounted for 79k (39%) of the total increase. Ontario and BC have a big "student" population but that doesn't seem to be the case here. There's agriculture/seasonal work but...
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    Calgary | Flyover Block | 20m | 6s | RNDSQR | FAAS Architecture

    Companies should be required to submit renders in different seasons and time of day. It could still look great at night, but I can't imagine any mesh that can make this look good during the day.
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    General Construction Updates

    Maybe the way I phrased it was confusing but I do like Calgary’s system, where there are major arterial roads connecting the entire city. What I mean was we shouldn’t get rid of streets like 14 because that will just drive traffic to other roads. We should have streets with minimal cars (19th...
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    General Construction Updates

    I think most of the traffic on 33 is going on or off Crowchild, which is what makes the area so busy. The connectivity of 33 from Crowchild to 14 drives a lot of traffic
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    General Construction Updates

    The reality is that most people in Calgary own cars, so we do need to allow cars to get around freely. I don’t think drivers inherently want to drive on a super busy street, and you don’t see people taking 19th St to go from 16 Ave to Memorial even though they can. The challenge with Marda Loop...
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    Calgary | Arris - 5th and Third | 142.03m | 41s | Embassy Bosa | Amanat Architect

    Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s just their Vancouver marketing material
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    Calgary | Northland Village Redevelopment | 19m | 6s | DIALOG

    The Sears site is owned by Concord Pacific, developers out of Vancouver. There were talks of condos in 2015, but that was shelved probably due to the oil collapse. I hope someone else purchases the land and the adjacent mall together into a U/D style development, with larger scale. Adjacent to...
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    Calgary International Airport

    One benefit is the flight time, two 737s could provide better scheduling. Operationally, 737s are also easier to manage and they can swap aircrafts/pilots if there's any maintenance or other issues. The CASM (cost per available seat mile) is usually higher on 787 than 737, but that really varies...
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    Calgary International Airport

    They need better airline partnerships before they do that. AC is able to because they have connectivity through ANA, EVA, SIA, Thai to connect through Asia to more popular winter destinations. WJ long haul strategy seems to be to pool all the non-YVR/YYZ traffic that wants to go to NRT or ICN...
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    Calgary International Airport

    With the expected shortage of narrowbodies and uncertain timing of the 737 Max 10, wonder if they switch some to Max 9 or get some 787 and deploy them on heavy routes like YYC-YYZ to free up the 737.
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    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    These sound good on paper, most people living at these locations would still need a car, because the transit system is not built out and most people don't want to be constrained to the LRT.. Having moved from Toronto where there's many areas similar to what you are describing, giant towers...
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    Calgary Restaurant Thread

    Modern Steak in Kensington is closing. Never been to this location but seems like Kensington is losing quite a few restaurants the last little while. Mostly due to redevelopment/sale of the existing buildings.
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    Calgary | Magna | 21m | 6s | Jayman | Integra Architecture

    This is kind of a unique development. The large greenfield space of a suburban community with inner-city like amenities and close to two major centres, UofC and FMC. The only other space with similar potential was probably Currie, but that was bungled pretty badly. Props to UofC Properties, they...
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    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Prefer the simple design. Don’t need another beautiful RNDSQR render that doesn’t live up to the hype
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    Roads, Highways & Infrastructure

    Not directly Calgary related but a good overview on how we can make safer streets. I like that the video focus on costs, because the more cost effective we can do something, the more we can do.
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    Infill Development Discussion

    Maybe I'm the outlier but why do people want to live in a multiplex in Mount Royal? The roads being wide and huge lots means it's not very walkable or have the community feel of an Altadore. And for the city, how many units are we going to get and is it worth fighting the opposition. The homes...
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    Infill Development Discussion

    A lot of it comes down to risk. A developer may make more on a multi-unit but the risk of community opposition isn't worth it since they're holding the loan on the purchase of the land throughout the entire process. A lot of these large single family infills are also pre-sold before...
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    Calgary | Green Line LRT | ?m | ?s | Calgary Transit

    That’s just ridiculous. Unless this work is needed for the actual line as well? Why spend so much for the marginal time saved when putting more of that money towards the actual Green Line?
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    Calgary | Green Line LRT | ?m | ?s | Calgary Transit

    I hope they can get funding to get across the Bow, which then makes it easier to justify extending it North. But if they don't, chances are the North extension will be dead for at least a while. I'm kind of glad the province didn't give the city the funding for the BRT North (half a billion?!)...

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