Cowtown
Senior Member
Makes sense. Other buildings around the area (Guardian, Nuera, etc..) have the same deal.
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Mountain Man
Senior Member
Absolutely due to the flood plain. All these buildings stayed just above the water level in 2013, except the parkades, they got fucked!
Rollerstud98
Active Member
My buddy lived in arris at the time, told me they stayed dry in the parkade. Luck of the draw I guess.
MichaelS
Senior Member
You might want to check his story again, I don't think Arris existed in 2013
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Arris was completed in 2008 I believe. It was certainly operational when I moved here 11 years ago.You might want to check his story again, I don't think Arris existed in 2013
Oh shit, we’re talking about Arriva.
Rollerstud98
Active Member
You’re right, I meant arriva.You might want to check his story again, I don't think Arris existed in 2013
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
Has there ever been talk of raising the street level once all buildings are raised?
whatchyyc
Active Member
1875
Senior Member
too nice for that road
Calgcouver
Active Member
For the love of god, did we need to extend the amount of ROW for cars again here? Seems to be what the City does with new projects on one-way streets downtown or in the Beltline. Oversize an already oversized lane. Everything is good on this building it turned out really nice, but we have to address the car sewers surrounding it.
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artvandelay
Active Member
Transportation still has too much power at the City.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Not sure that's really feasible, the extra soil pressure on the foundations would likely be detrimental and it would be extremely disruptive to the area. It worked in Eau Claire and East Village because those were empty areas, East Vic Park is mostly built out now.
Dārayavauš
Active Member
Sure hope they don't add any more lanes to Macleod....
Kōsō
Active Member
Correction: stroad
MichaelS
Senior Member
While that was the original intent of these bylawed setbacks, now they are used for improvements to the public realm. You see it in place along the 1st Street SE side, with Keynote, Nuera and Sasso/Vetro, even with Upten as well. Maybe it would be better if we used an existing traffic lane to implement this, rather than developable land, but at least we get wide sidewalks and boulevard trees:
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