TAS
Senior Member
I think you jumped the gun. This project has a lot of steel and is pretty substantial looking - at least to me. I don't think pics do it justice.
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I think you jumped the gun. This project has a lot of steel and is pretty substantial looking - at least to me. I don't think pics do it justice.
retiredfire
Active Member
Looks like ENT is almost done. Starting to fit it out for tenants. Looks great.
IanO
Superstar
| Reference ID: | Job No 473654795-002 |
| Description: | To operate a Private Education Service and to construct interior alterations |
| Location: | 10107 - JASPER AVENUE NW Plan NB Blk 1 Lots 81-83 |
| Applicant: | HDEK INTERIOR DESIGN INC. |
| Status: | Intake Review |
| Create Date: | 2023-05-30T06:31:53Z |
| Neighbourhood: | DOWNTOWN |
Kaizen
Senior Member
Ever SQUARE
Kaizen
Senior Member
^And directly across Gateway from Ever SQUARE is Alliance Centre Gateway, another business park
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IanO
Superstar
A nice micro-node developing there.
bingo
New Member
as someone who has worked there previously this place is pedestrian hell 
Gronk!
Senior Member
The south escalators at Commerce Place should open any day now!
MCXavierL
Active Member
IanO
Superstar
Who else noticed that they removed the old fountains/waterfall along those
VaultBoy
New Member
Woah there is like 30+ new CRUs being added here directly onto high traffic area. At least it is one way traffic only. Wonder what retailers we will get here
Not discouraging activism or apathy at all. I continually encourage people to get involved in their local community leagues, especially those who want to get into volunteering but aren't sure where to start.
What I'm responding to is this specifically:
This is vague and there may be some nuance that hasn't been communicated, but I've personally heard first-hand in Zoom meetings league presidents and civics directors saying that the city should only allow infill in Blatchford and nowhere else, with no exceptions. I imagine these are some of the same leagues @thommyjo is referring to.
That is not how you do civic activism, that is not how you do engagement, that is not citybuilding.
Yes, Holyrood Gardens was a gongshow, but we were still hugely successful with the approach we took to make it better; that is, our committee were not at all against height and density, but we worked to find the best ways to apply height and density (within the many surprising constraints of the site) that would minimize impacts to surrounding properties and ensure that the site plan could integrate with the neighbourhood and the LRT stop as best as possible.
We educated ourselves (or brought in experts where we could) in many areas of architecture and design, city bylaws, policies and plans, utilities servicing, traffic engineering, emergency services requirements, etc. - and made our best effort to work closely and collaboratively with all stakeholders. Those efforts were noticed and praised by Council on more than one occasion, and no doubt helped ensure our voices, our requests, and our concerns were taken seriously. We also built up a positive rapport and some serious goodwill with most of those parties, which helped us immensely in later projects and Council hearings.
(Fun fact: the ORIGINAL-original Holyrood Gardens site plan, which I was privvy to but was asked not to share publicly, was vastly worse than the first Option A/Option B presented to the public - picture the entire site covered with tightly-packed 16-storey L-shaped commie blocks effectively walling off the neighbourhood. Compared to the currently approved DC2, I think we came out very far ahead indeed.)
An oppositional, combative, adversarial, us-vs-them, or NIMBY/BANANA approach is much less likely to be taken seriously, especially when Council and Administration have already put in over 90% of the work to build and refine these new bylaws and plans, including incorporating over half-a-decade-worth of active public consultation and engagement including directly with leagues and the EFCL.
I've put this invitation out there before, but I'll repeat it again: If anyone ever wants to sit down with me over a coffee or beer sometime to chat about the work I and the Holyrood Development Committee have done, feel free to reach out and DM me. I'm always happy to talk your ears off about our experiences, our successes, and our learnings with this and other projects and offer advice and suggestions to anyone looking to be more actively civically engaged.
Avenuer
Senior Member
It's a historic landmark at this point and cannot be touched!
Avenuer
Senior Member
Will you accept packrafting chat requests on Whitemud Creek or the NSR? It's that time of the year almost!
Avenuer
Senior Member
Is this comment directed at the Douglas Manor work?