34th had commercial first, and it was the street car route until 1948. The trolley bus, and later the diesel bus, went up 33rd instead, and commercial began to develop there also. Why switch the transit to 33rd? I think the idea was that 33rd had better prospects of extending further west to...

The main problem is that this really strangles the businesses in and around fully closed sections, depending on the length of the closure. You need to keep blood flowing through the limb to keep it alive, not sure how long you can that flow off.

Tying the main streets investment in Marda Loop to the upzoning "in advance", was a mistake, and unnecessary. As also noted, there is no evidence that city-led upzoning is an advantage in leading to development. Since it was done, there have been more and bigger projects pursued and completed...

Marda Gras is full scale on Sunday. And Marc and Mada "engagement centre" will be open.

I think the road widening setback makes the house site almost undevelopable. If the house stays, long term could be a character corner cafe or some other adaptive re-use, that could be neat. Otherwise probably a wide spot in the sidewalk.

It was actually the "Emerald Stone" site on the north side of 15th Avenue. Was to be an Alliance Atlantis cinema.. It fell through when the Alliance Atlantis chain was purchased by Famous Players (the ultimate company successor is Cineplex). The community association was supportive of the project.

Leland Park was the original name of the subdivision for this area, circa 1910-1911.

I did a bit of research recently on the evolution of Crowchild Trail / 33rd Avenue. Some of you might enjoy:

Interesting. There is a pedestrian overpass south of the interchange. I think it was put in place to connect Currie Barracks to the PMQs in the military days (anybody know different?). Not sure how much use it gets though.

Here's a vid from CTV https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2785951

There's a Marda Loop history project working on this, and also looking for photos www.visitmardaloop.com/history

Before Glenmore Landing was built there were several attempts by Campeau in the late 1970s to build high density on this site. Lots of news articles on it, but I couldn't find an image.

Chachi's and Deville are open. Have a coffee and watch the shenanigans at the 4-way stop!

Perhaps the developer who commissioned the original for Edmonton decided to bring the concept to Marda Loop instead, modified for a smaller site than originally proposed. Will be interesting to find out. Makes me happy regardless. Does anyone know if the 124th Street version was ever built?

It's actually a day market in Currie, noon-8, headline got that wrong. Plus there are 3 night markets this year on 34th, working around the main streets work somehow. https://mardaloopnightmarket.ca/

There is a new DP application for the site; design going full BMO, it is no longer the Prairie Block design. Still by CGE Investments. There was prep work happening on the site this week. https://developmentmap.calgary.ca/?find=DP2023-01202

The Marda Loop ARP 2014 only dealt with the area in the BRZ (now BIA) boundary. Was quite limited in that regard. "Main Street planning" since then looked at height and density along the whole corridor, but due to opposition on the east end, zoning was only upgraded in the 2014 ARP area, where...

Good sleuthing here. A few items: 1. Ronmor owns the Shopper's Building, at least the commercial portion, so it shouldn't be a big deal to extend their alley from the west, and to use/improve the existing 33rd Ave access ramp on east side of Shopper's building to serve both sites. 2. It looks...