No news but the poorly performing LEDs bug me. I have to see it everyday on my walk to work, hope it starts soon. It brings me sadness. Kudos to the Calgary tower for always having their lights going. Which, if I'm not wrong is the same company... Also, the own across 1 Street seems to be underway so perhaps that one first then this one.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
No news but the poorly performing LEDs bug me. I have to see it everyday on my walk to work, hope it starts soon. It brings me sadness. Kudos to the Calgary tower for always having their lights going. Which, if I'm not wrong is the same company... Also, the own across 1 Street seems to be underway so perhaps that one first then this one.
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I notice the broken LEDs as well. I always wondered about this LED issue that crops up on buildings from time to time - it's probably not a fair comparison but seems counter-intuitive given the whole LED perspective on the consumer market. They are practically never burn out and are 10x more efficient, LEDs are one of the most reliable products that exist.

I guess strapping them to the outsides of buildings and making many thousands of them light up in a coordinated fashion is the challenge.
 

There have been 2 revisions to the development permit. These are the latest renders from the late December revision.​

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Really scaled back, which isn't the worst. Not sure the original plan was that great. No LEDs featured in the rendering. LEDS that don't work end up making a building look cheap.
 
Personally I'm still finding this all pretty tacky looking. Definitely prefer the look of the original.
 
If I'm not mistaken this project seems to be the largest of the downtown office conversions in terms of sheer building size. I wonder if the financial risk was too high for other similar sized building conversions to be proposed and/or greenlit under the program.
 
395 units added to an existing building. That’s pretty sweet if you ask me! Great location for young professionals - will hopefully help induce some much needed sidewalk/frontage restoration. Great spot if you work at the airport, too.(300,301)

This and a completed Glenbow, as well as the residential conversion right across the street to the east will do wonders for that corner.
 
YYCALGARY said:
395 units added to an existing building. That’s pretty sweet if you ask me! Great location for young professionals - will hopefully help induce some much needed sidewalk/frontage restoration. Great spot if you work at the airport, too.(300,301)

This and a completed Glenbow, as well as the residential conversion right across the street to the east will do wonders for that corner.
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it will be great if you work at airport and they build a train from airport to downtown. it is my dream
 
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