[BKha]

I’m excited for all these towers set to go up, both excited and intrigued by all these small multi-unit development popping up everywhere.

 

[FCC1982]

those neighbourhoods from the 70s and 80s, neighbourhoods like Beddington and Douglasdale and etc.. let’s hope the new blanket zoning can help fix some of that.

This wording made me laugh

 

[UrbanWarrior]

 

[Beltline_B]

-70s/80s/90s the name of the game was as many single family homes as possible and the further from the core, the better. Also multifamily was evil.

-Mid 90s duplexes replacing sfh in inner city neighborhoods starts to take off.

-Early 2000s residential high rises in the core start taking off, with the rest of the city mostly single-family home builds.
It’s either high density in the core or low density for the rest of the city.

-2010ish we start seeing new suburban neighbourhoods building much higher density multifamily builds

-2015ish we start seeing more low rise builds all around the city

-2024 we see a new trend take off. Multifamily builds anywhere from 4 to 16 units popping up everywhere in older inner city neighbourhoods.

-2027 another trend takes off, multifamily, mixed use development around LRT stations? (here’s hoping)

To sum it up our diversity and density of housing builds has vastly improved from 30 years ago.
We now have density being built in the new suburbs, density being built in the older inner city neighborhoods, and density being built in the core. The last and toughest part of increasing density and diversity is going to be those neighbourhoods from the 70s and 80s, neighbourhoods like Beddington and Douglasdale and etc.. let’s hope the new blanket zoning can help fix some of that.

Good run down on our development trends. Whenever I get frustrated about development progress, it’s important to remember how far Calgary has come and where it’s going.

Really like the infill development boom of ground-oriented stuff. Over time it’s bringing huge swathes of the city from a 3,000-5,000 people / square kilometre to a more sustainable 6,000-10,000 + / square kilometre..

This is what we’ve been missing and it’s exciting to see it finally happening and happening rapidly.

 

[Patrick.1980]

I don't think Kit is under construction yet, it's still in demolition phase no?

It is now

 

[Decidedly Dense]

It is now

The old kit building is finally coming down? Is there a threat for that one somewhere?

 

[Surrealplaces]

The old kit building is finally coming down? Is there a threat for that one somewhere?

I don't know if this is tied to the Kit Building, but this project which recently broke ground is called Kit at Kensington.

 

[Decidedly Dense]

I don't know if this is tied to the Kit Building, but this project which recently broke ground is called Kit at Kensington.

Ohhhh gotcha. I was thinking a different project.

 

[maestro]

I think overall it's impressive. Core growth might only be 5% typically, but 5% of the city's growth in an already developed area (DT and Beltline) that's less than 1% of the city's size sq km, is impressive. I don't think any city outside of the big three is seeing that much consistent growth in an area that size, which I think is what Taurus was getting at.


A lot of that success in the core comes back to your point here, and I agree. I think it has been the case for quite a while, where neighborhoods surrounding the core were seeing growth limited to the odd multi-family and lots of duplexes.
I'm excited about the growth in the core, but I'm just as excited about the small 5/1s and all the 4-16 unit builds that are suddenly popping up everywhere in the inner city in neighborhoods like Parkdale, Altadore, Erlton, Capitol Hill, Renfrew etc..

I don't think there is another city outside of the big 3 and including the big 3 attracting as many people as Calgary is right now. It's apples to oranges. The number of units being built has to go up to maintain the growth. The 3300 units under construction could look mighty small in 10 years even if the core maintains only 5% of the city's absorption.

The city's prewar suburbia around the core is obviously small but, let's not underestimate the size and potential of the core. It should preform better with housing increasingly becoming less affordable as long as the population explosion lasts.

Calgary has being blessed with small scale intensification. My fear is that as housing pressures rises with developers able to sell hundreds of units that these small scale developments will fall out of favour.