[Oilers99]

Those aerials aren’t really selling me. It looks like Terwillegar Towne. I don’t want to be a downer on Blatchford, but that’s a lot of single-use, relatively low-density development right from the get-go. Is someone’s quality of life here actually different enough to justify the premium? What’s the appeal?

Conversely, I think they should have started around NAIT station and gone higher density with a real mix of uses. Being right next to a campus and a shopping mall would have guaranteed a built-in population looking to live, shop, and spend time there. An already established node to piggy-back off of. The scale and mix could have been closer to something like UniverCity in Calgary.

The single-use row housing we’re seeing now feels like something that should have come later, after a “lifestyle” was already established in Blatchford. Right now, anyone moving in still needs a car. Transit isn’t properly established, LRT is through fields of nothingness, and you have to drive to get basics. Are residents really expected to wait decades before they can live the lifestyle Blatchford is selling?

If it was higher density it would develop an even slower pace...

 

[CplKlinger]

I forgot to say this earlier, but last week there were some workers near the first phase of Blatchford Market (the mixed-use area by NAIT Station). One of their pickups belonged to M.A.P., so hopefully it's a sign that they'll start the utility/servicing work this year.

 

[fjordgard]

I feel like some of the comments over the last couple days are missing that there are more townhomes being built each year, there is one 5-6 storey under construction with 2 more appearing to be ramping up for imminent work and 3 more in the pipeline… There are hundreds of units and some true mixed use buildings coming very soon.

 

[thommyjo]

I feel like some of the comments over the last couple days are missing that there are more townhomes being built each year, there is one 5-6 storey under construction with 2 more appearing to be ramping up for imminent work and 3 more in the pipeline… There are hundreds of units and some true mixed use buildings coming very soon.

I’m not sure what you think my comments is “missing”.

Has there been more than 75 townhomes completed in a single year?

Those mortises will take ~2 years each to complete, so that’s at best 150-200 units a year if those all get going soon here.

Still very, very far off from any projections.

Michener park in 2 years of construction will have built more than blatchford has in the last 5.

 

[Gronk!]

I feel like some of the comments over the last couple days are missing that there are more townhomes being built each year, there is one 5-6 storey under construction with 2 more appearing to be ramping up for imminent work and 3 more in the pipeline… There are hundreds of units and some true mixed use buildings coming very soon.

I feel like some of the comments over the last couple of days are from those who don't actually live in Blatchford.

 

[CplKlinger]

Has there been more than 75 townhomes completed in a single year?

Yes. Going through the permits and counting main units separately from basement suites (I didn't count garage suites), here's what has been completed in the last year.