niteryder
Active Member
Staples is now open for all your stapling needs:
This tea place too:
Park construction:
This tea place too:
Park construction:
- Thread starter Surrealplaces
- Start date
So close!
MichaelS
Senior Member
Not just your regular run of the mill Staples store by the looks of it:
Staples Unveils Next Gen Working and Learning Store Spanning 2 Floors [Photos/CEO Interview]
The retailer is rolling out concept stores that include coworking spaces and studio offerings.
retail-insider.com
Chinese_T
Active Member
Progress from last week.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Fan-freakin-tastic!
CBBarnett
Senior Member
This is really coming together - really exciting to see another example of a density/central park/retail area combo after Bridgeland's Murdoch Park which does this to a far more limited extent. This is a good trend and should be encouraged wherever possible. There's zero reason all shopping and retail trips can't be made on foot and in attractive areas.
It's the attention to detail that's really coming together too - notice the low-profile curbs, significant pedestrian lighting and generously wide pathways, ramps and sidewalks. It's a design that imagines people walk here and gives all the subtle but critically important details to help encourage it.
In the longer-term, if this University Ave strip can continue and the integration to the University itself continues to strengthen, the combo will create one of the largest and most intentionally walkable communities in the city.
It's the attention to detail that's really coming together too - notice the low-profile curbs, significant pedestrian lighting and generously wide pathways, ramps and sidewalks. It's a design that imagines people walk here and gives all the subtle but critically important details to help encourage it.
In the longer-term, if this University Ave strip can continue and the integration to the University itself continues to strengthen, the combo will create one of the largest and most intentionally walkable communities in the city.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Is the site with the low ride townhomes residential for the university? That site seems like the perfect place to start tying this into the campus. The sports fields south of that site too, but I can't see them relocating those...
Should be more clear, I'm talking about the site on the NW corner of University Ave and 39St.
Should be more clear, I'm talking about the site on the NW corner of University Ave and 39St.
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Urban Outdoorsman
Active Member
Hopefully other developers will see the success of U/D and try emulating it. I'd love to see more of these types of developments across the city. There's no reason Calgary couldn't support several of these types of neighborhoods further out from the core.
ActiveTruth
Active Member
Turned out fantastic.
sidewalk
New Member
..and from me it gets the wheelchair stamp of approval
How nice to be able to wheel around being 'in the moment' with my kids - instead of always casting ahead to avoid obstacles, steep curbs, uneven paving and oncoming crowds!
Looking forward to the park being completed.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Great perspective we rarely consider!
ActiveTruth
Active Member
..and from me it gets the wheelchair stamp of approval
How nice to be able to wheel around being 'in the moment' with my kids - instead of always casting ahead to avoid obstacles, steep curbs, uneven paving and oncoming crowds!
Looking forward to the park b
Totally agree
wolvie
New Member
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