[UrbanWarrior]

I saw on Twitter that there is a proposal for a 93 unit building, is that what the open house is for?

No that would be a different one. This one I believe is 105 units.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Yup, the one with the open house (105 units) is located on 9A street. The 93 unit project is on Memorial Drive.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I'm not sure how I feel about 13 historic houses being destroyed for one 93 unit building. It better be freaking gorgeous!

 

[Surrealplaces]

That's what I'm hoping! I think given the price of the land, it'll probably be something pretty solid, but who knows.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Yeah that's a good point. How tall you think? 4 storeys ish?

 

[Surrealplaces]

That would be my guess given the size of land. I'm expecting it to be a four story brick type building similar to Tribeca in Mission.

 

[Always_Biking]

@Urban Warrior @Surrealplaces This is how I picture it to turn out. I could be wrong though.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Ugh... that's so... plain. I would hate for it to turn out like that. A larger scale version of this would be preferable, but knowing Calgary, we'll never see low rise of this calibre.

 

[Oddball]

Ugh... that's so... plain. I would hate for it to turn out like that. A larger scale version of this would be preferable, but knowing Calgary, we'll never see low rise of this calibre.

What is that? Some sort of Neo-Brutalist thing? God that's cool.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Ugh... that's so... plain. I would hate for it to turn out like that. A larger scale version of this would be preferable, but knowing Calgary, we'll never see low rise of this calibre.

Build this now Calgary!

 

[Surrealplaces]

I hope you're wrong AB, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was something like. Stay tuned tomorrow for details.

@Urban Warrior @Surrealplaces This is how I picture it to turn out. I could be wrong though.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Here are a few images from the open House for the new Minto Project in Kensington

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Wow that is sooo not Calgary! I love it! We need literally 150 more like this all around the inner ring

 

[Surrealplaces]

Preaching to the choir my friend! I would trade in a 45 story condo tower for 8 of these any day.

 

[Oddball]

I am of two minds on this project. I do like it quite a lot. It's very mature and modern. I do worry that it will look a little drab in the winter time though. Still, I think it continues to add great diversity to Kensington. It easily has the best 8-10 storey buildings and projects in the city right now.