[DiscoStu]

Time to shift things over to the other University then.

 

[maestro]

All that's left in phase 1 are the office blocks and the high rise blocks. Office blocks make sense they will take longer. The high rise blocks may hinge on cost of concrete and steel construction vs wood and steel. Or it's something as simple as Gracorp owning them all with future phases in mind.

 

[Surrealplaces]

A few pics from U/D on one of the rare cloudy evenings this month.

 

[Beltline_B]

This is what the university says about that:

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https://www.ucalgary.ca/ancillary/r...courts/varsity-decommissioning/varsity-courts

Interesting. No plans for family housing, I wonder if there are plans for general student housing, or will the university turn it over to be developed like the rest of U/D?

 

[darwink]

Interesting. No plans for family housing, I wonder if there are plans for general student housing, or will the university turn it over to be developed like the rest of U/D?

The grad student residence (Crowsnest) fulfills most of that roll now.

 

[Alex_YYC]

Streetscape in front of Argyle looks good. A few mature trees are all that’s missing.

 

[CBBarnett]

Streetscape in front of Argyle looks good. A few mature trees are all that’s missing.
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Whenever anyone thinks 17th Avenue SW sidewalks are "good enough" for the pedestrian traffic, show them this picture.

While not always achievable in narrower right-of-ways, this is the width that a successfully designed pedestrian-centric urban sidewalk should have. I just think how different things would be if we recognized that in all our projects, public and private. Imagine if this was the scale of sidewalks Marda Loop main street was getting instead of a compromised vision, where to save a hand-full of parking stalls we lose 2m of the potential patio and sidewalk zone.