Here's a shot from AHS's Cancer Centre Webcam1 - which was pointed over at the Stadium site this morning.
Looks like they're working along the West side?
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Hmmm… the southwest side is one of the office components is it not? The hotel is on the corner/intersection.
 
Cowtown said:
I went past this site last might, and it looked like the drillers were over at the northwest end of the lot. Maybe more than one building at once?
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Given some construction/tenant commitments would precede the pandemic, and the increased need for mixed-use/adaptable space, it may be financially advantageous to complete more than one use at a time. This would equate to more than one building. Though the site space is mixed-use, the buildings themselves, afaik, are relatively single use - save for CRU frontage on some. I would guess they would want revenue coming from multiple real-estate streams than to rely on a single use to float reserves.
 
That was certainly the initial design from about 10 years ago now. Not sure if that is still the case. A large shared parkade meant efficiencies in mixing of uses, resulting in less overall parking being provided if you were to look at each individual use separately. However, a parkade the size that they were proposing was/is a very expensive undertaking, not sure if that has been the source of the holdup or not. Not sure if the design has been revised either.
 
I feel like it would make sense. They could siphon off some parking revenue from the hospital by having an excess amount at this site if they set it at a decently lower cost. Would be a smart move in the long run, considering the hospital will only continue to expand in the long term.
 
Daily Commercial News: Calgary's $400-million UXBorough project overcomes geotechnical hurdles - constructconnect.com.
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Calgary’s $400-million UXBorough project overcomes geotechnical hurdles - Journal Of Commerce

Excavation work is underway on the first phase of a massive, $400-million mixed-use development at the site of the former Stadium Shopping Centre along a busy stretch of Uxbridge Drive Northwest in Calgary. Piling rigs and other heavy equipment are onsit
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Apparently Phase 2 will begin before Phase 1 even finishes, so hopefully we're not stuck with surface parking forever!
 
Is the first phase both towers on the western side of the site then? I wonder what phase the hotel is (SE corner), as it’s a parking lot in those renders.
 
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