Agard
Active Member
Looks like something is happening here in Rosenthal, does anyone have any info on it?
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thommyjo
Senior Member
Isn't this just a bunch of more apartments? Same as west of 218st
Perfectly "close" and yet too far from the new 3 billion dollar LRT to not actually serve. Such planning!
VaultBoy
Active Member
Just a little bit further west to connect to the $300 million rec center and new apartments. In my perfect world it could be elevated over the roundabouts
Agard
Active Member
When you say same as west of 218 street, do you mean the same developer or just the same type of housing? I'd love if it was the same developer because I think those Edison apartments are pretty nice
Wax
New Member
I think a stop at winterburn road would also serve a good chunk of medium density as well, and you could push the rec center station a bit further west. (In paris they run trams right through the middle of the traffic circles, if elevated is too expensive.)
TAS
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New nordic spa opening in West Ritchie - I believe this is same person who owns Plaza Bowl on 118Ave.
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Gronk!
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Construction outside near the Westin
degrandprix
Active Member
6-storey going up in the French Quarter, looks like it will have CRUs in the base 
ADob
Active Member
My husband and I walked to Triffo theatre for the ballet yesterday and as we walked along 106 Street, between 98 Ave and Jasper, I really noticed how classy and timeless many of the 70s buildings are. Not flashy, simple design, good harmony, mainly brick, and not at all dated. Made me wonder why we can't keep doing what works but keep trying to reinvent the damn wheel with all the patchwork finishes and bizarre design choices of the new builds. Clean lines and simple finishes age so well, developers should really walk around and look at some of these buildings. They may not get a lot of love because they're so unassuming but give me that over the 90s turrets of Michener Park or the mishmash cladding or weird ass faux Mondrian grids of almost every other recent new build.
Barnaby
Senior Member
I don't see this expansion happening when you could serve all of 124th st for less money with a spur. The reality is that an elevated section along with a new TPSS is going to be prohibitively expensive. The rec center should have been placed just north of Weber Greens by Lewis Farms TC.
Huge miss.
MacLac
Senior Member
According to Pavonne here, rezoning has been approved for a “6 storey - 90 unit” apartment building on the current “Jesus is Lord Church,” just a block south of Whyte behind the Southpark lots….
Ohman
New Member
The design caliber of most 6 storeys these days has got me nervous 
Barnaby
Senior Member
I'm in QC right now. Developers could just copy most of these buildings and have an easy win. Extremely frustrating...
archited
Senior Member
^^ It reminds me of the era of the 2 & 3-storey walk-ups of the 60s and 70s (a previous time of rapid population expansion in Edmonton)... a hideous collage of urban ugliness -- and the same arguments are heard today: they are necessary to meet a strong rental demand; the City needs to grow more with an intensified core densification; it will help the City Admin and many of their programs with population consolidation in the core; quality architecture is the least important of these goals. And most just don't seem to care, particularly those in the development game who are armed with abundant excuses in justification of this horror.
David A
Senior Member
It is also very short term thinking. While there is an influx of people and demand, you can get away with building something quick and cheap looking, but when that demand starts to slow people will become more choosy about where they want to live and will pick nicer places instead. You can already start to see rental vacancy going up, projects need to be designed to be viable for decades in potentially different markets not just the current one.