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I'm completely fine with something like this going out there. More and more we're a region and not just Calgary. So I get that each bedroom community that has more affordable housing and areas like Balzac play their economic role in lifting the region.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
Is the actual City of Calgary's industrial lands pretty tapped out on land for things like this? They all seem to locate in Balzac.
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Rollerstud98 said:
Taxes most likely driver. Also you should go for a tour and see the warehousing out there now, some absolutely enormous buildings.
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Taxes and maybe some other factors, like the ring road (and subsequently good access to #1 and #2) and the airport nearby. All combined make it ideal.
 
This will create jobs for people living in Calgary and Airdrie. (How many actual homes does Balzac have? Seems to be like a handful of acreages.
 
Rollerstud98 said:
Taxes most likely driver. Also you should go for a tour and see the warehousing out there now, some absolutely enormous buildings.
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I'm sure that's part of it, but I also think that's got to be smaller than just general costs - such a land consumptive development needs cheap land, even if taxes were zero I doubt you'd attract one of these things to Foothills industrial park.

Are there any central cities that successfully outcompete their satellite cities for these types of distribution hub development? Apart from ones with structural reasons (e.g. the port is within the central city) or perverse incentive reasons (e.g. the central city's land values are actually lower due to decades of decline, decay and disfunction).
 
Taxes, offsite levies (development charges) and infrastructure capacity are all probably major considerations in the decision to locate in the County.

The Province is funding the upgrades of the interchange at QEII and Highway 566, construction starts in 2025 I think, so that will help alleviate any congestion issues.
 
badc0ffee said:
This will create jobs for people living in Calgary and Airdrie. (How many actual homes does Balzac have? Seems to be like a handful of acreages.
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They’re actually started a true residential development on range road 11. Not acreages but large homes and large yards I think.

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I remember reading somewhere that RVC was digging a hole for themselves by having such low taxes (something to incentivize businesses locating there), anyone have any insight into that?
 
Are they? Their infrastructure requirements are pretty minimal, and I am sure that while they are lower than Calgary's, those non-residential uses are still probably paying quite a bit to the County. In terms of the offsite levy, no, they aren't collecting anywhere near enough to cover the capital infrastructure needed, but, why would you when the Province will for you?
 
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Probably accompanied by a large combined cycle gas fired generation facility. Poetic justice that climate change activism to discourage LNG facilities might result in just as much gas being consumed to support AI
 
thecivilengineer said:
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Not to throw cold water on this news, but it seems odd they'd build this up in Valleyview. It's kind of far from everything. Maybe they don't need much infrastructure other than lots of power?
 
Surrealplaces said:
Not to throw cold water on this news, but it seems odd they'd build this up in Valleyview. It's kind of far from everything. Maybe they don't need much infrastructure other than lots of power?
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Very large, low cost gas reserves that can be used to generate electricity, and cold weather conducive to cooling. O'Leary teased this on Fox Business last week
 
DougB said:
Probably accompanied by a large combined cycle gas fired generation facility. Poetic justice that climate change activism to discourage LNG facilities might result in just as much gas being consumed to support AI
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Wind, gas, and nuclear. I bet we'll end up with a norther Alberta-BC tie line, and


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Besides in Quebec, I don't think any LNG have been derailed by general environmental concerns. The hyper local issues in Prince Rupert did create a delay which killed one, but they then entered the joint venture, which enabled the other large one to proceed, so, I'm not sure there was a net decrease, though there was a delay.

But yeah. 1.1Bcf/d of natural gas demand at full capacity if that comes to pass. For context, LNG Canada is what, 1.8 Bcf/d, Wood Fibre is 0.28 Bcf/d. Make a lot more sense to move the data than move the gas.
 
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