How many more buildings are likely needed to “finish” Century park?

……you shared these in the rossdale thread my guy…. My nephew has nicer stuff in Roblox created

Sweet to land a large company like that. Very stable. But hopefully there’s a restaurant that’s open late of sorts in the remaining few spots to activate the courtyard area and seating. The peace and quiet inside there is super cool. A nice patio spilling into the middle with some music would...

Great series here. Before and after of numerous parks:

How so?? Projects like this are regularly very successful.

Interested to see who takes Knack’s seat. One of his staffers will be throwing her name in the race.

I think Salvador waits another term or 2. Wouldn’t be wise to run this term. In the end, the mayor is just another vote. You can accomplish lots as a councillor. No point risking a mayoral run when it’s clear “Change” is wanted. Let a conservative like Cartmell win this one, stay on council vs...

Would love to see the planned phase 2 turned into 450-650k priced townhomes more like what we see in blatchford. Lacking that price point in the area. Anyone know what the land was bought for? Surely that’s feasibly with 5-8 units to make the economics work?

High Level Line had a vision to essentially tunnel the HLB entrances and connect the park above the glenora stairs with the legislature grounds. That’d solve most of the connectivity needs for walking and bikes.

It really does feel piecemeal. Outside of the central quad, everything feels like a random assortment of buildings with half the walkways between them being random alleys and service lanes and such. Needs a lot of love to rival something like UBC.

Private to residents for security reasons based on the types of care offered to the seniors there.

Arguably, it’s very connected, as a ton of our downtown commuters drive through this area via the walterdale and river valley road every day. Riverdale is more of a truly separated community. Agreed though, gondola would do wonders. And some higher frequency transit.

That’s what people said about the DTES in the 90s. They got the services… and the problems stayed.

Beautiful DT entrances and stations (plus improve accessibility/safety/etc features) before we build the new extension imo. These stations should see tens of thousands of daily users as well as pedestrians, tourists, and others in our core. Make them a positive, not a negative.

I want pearl or dirt more than I want beacon, or whatever that trash in holyrood is called.

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Where is this sorry? 104st? Where McKenzie was proposed? That’s still one of the proposals I’m most sad about not happening.

Critical mass is needed for people to be comfortable in public spaces. I often simply go for walks with friends downtown with a coffee instead of staying inside of the shop. It’s amazing how few people are often out and how different it makes you feel vs your typical block in Van/Tor.

I lose IQ points reading these articles. Bad journalism, dumb takes, it’s just rough to see people trying to claim to “character” or “not being against stuff” but totally being against the very first thing that happens…so much so that they’re quoted in news articles and making lawn signs. Very...

The on/off ramps of the henday into new suburbs are getting pretty bad. Another reason I’ll never live outside the henday and find it difficult to have friends move there (then complain about traffic and taxes themselves 🙃). Downtown is still the easiest DT to drive in the country for any large...