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maestro
Senior Member
I'm referring to the areas where there isn't a tower. The maze of rebar by Bow Valley College is where a tower will be built. There's no tower being built on the perfectly spaced columns on the lower half of the picture.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Probably to do with the planned concrete framed residential towers planned to sit on top.
Edit: whoops, beat me to the punch.
Operater
Active Member
Hi Group,
Passing Thoughts on Steel verses Cement etc. If it had been Steel, the Bldg would have been designed totally differently. B Interesting.
Tnx,
Operater
Passing Thoughts on Steel verses Cement etc. If it had been Steel, the Bldg would have been designed totally differently. B Interesting.
Tnx,
Operater
Operater
Active Member
Hi Group,
How Many Towers Going Up? Two? One Now plus Another later?
Tnx,
Operater.
How Many Towers Going Up? Two? One Now plus Another later?
Tnx,
Operater.
JonnyCanuck
Senior Member
There are no residential towers under construction. That phase of the project is not expected to start until next year at the earliest.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
But, I mean, the parkade and podium floors of the towers are also being completed. So while they may not be UC yet, this fact will definitely cut down on construction time once sales targets are reached.
JonnyCanuck
Senior Member
Yes. Construction time will be greatly reduced. However Arris has not launched yet. It is in pre-registration phase. I suppose if Bosa sees the condo market in the core starting to turn upwards they may open it up for sale. According to that story in the today's news roundup, the demand in Calgary is in the suburbs, not the inner city.
Habanero
Active Member
Rental towers in the inner city, and smaller lowrise condos in the burbs. That more or less sums up Calgary's market. I heard that The Royal still has sold most of the units, but the ones left are slow to sell. I imagine they won't do anything until those have at least been sold or the trend pucks up.
Marcanadian
Moderator
Operater is taking a three week vacation for offensive language/violation of our Rules of Conduct. Let's try to stay away from name-calling and stick to the thread topic.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Isn't this the 2nd or 3rd time he's done this?
Meikkhaell
Active Member
Yep, sounds good to me. Enough with the political views, everything's politicized enough as it is.
gsunnyg
Senior Member
So I was talking to my dad, he works construction, and he knows a few guys over at this job site and apparently there were rumours that they were going to stall at the podium until the economy got better but apparently a new rumour has it 1 of the towers might still get built starting this year. https://riocan.com/development-portfolio/development/5th-and-third/ - according to that link the height of the east tower is 25 stories and completion date estimated for Q1 2020. For that to happen I would see them having to begin work on east tower some time late this year. I know that CMLC suggested no sales would occur this year in East village but maybe it's a rental. Again these are insider rumours and from my past years of working construction, rumours sometimes tend to be overblown. Heres hoping for the best!
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
A new, more detailed gamut of renders from the link posted above... I like the podium slightly more than last time, but still dislike it. The updated design of the towers is ghastly though. Holy man what is with that spandrel? I also find the billboards and the way that this development turns its back on the river, drop in centre, and 4 avenue both to be distasteful.
