[CBBarnett]

I think it would. We have too many people that come from land development in the city that don’t care about the velocity of capital return, they are taking advantage of the City’s want for density to hold for extortionate land values for unproven assets with no comps. Spread density out it could diminish speculation, in theory.

Or they will just continue to hold for bullshit values, who knows.

I imagine this has been tried before somewhere, would be interesting to see a study on it. The bulk upzoning of R-CG also has this function, if everyone has the same entitlements, where's the speculative part?

In practice it might be hard to upzone enough areas to this kind of density to mitigate speculation.

 

[Ramsayite]

 

[ThujaPlicata]

 

[Ramsayite]

From Scotsmans hill

 

[Alex_YYC]

 

[GoVertical]

 

[Ramsayite]

Updated views from the hill. It's quite blue on this side. Nice colour pop. Curious to see how it looks once balconies, flashing, trim details are done.

 

[DiscoStu]

I've watched this project go up from work every day, and I gotta say I'm not a fan of the blue right now. But let's see how the finished product looks like.

 

[potatopizzafan]

 

[AJX]

Are those blue sections stucco or aluminum panels?

 

[potatopizzafan]

Are those blue sections stucco or aluminum panels?

Im not completely sure what they are, but they had a similar texture to stucco

 

[Mountain Man]

Trying to think what material that would be. Looks like there are too many joints for stucco, and EIFS would be scaffolded and hoarded during installation.

 

[potatopizzafan]

Maybe aluminum panels with some kind of textured matte finish?

 

[Surrealplaces]

I would guess aluminum with a matte type finish. As per @Mountain Man there would have been scaffolding and tarps if it was stucco.

 

[haltcatchfire]

When I was by there in person, they look like some sort of composite panel sheet good. In certain light it gave off a painted OSB vibe.