Mountain Man
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17th Ave turning into Robson St?
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CalgaryTiger
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Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming.
renx.ca
Strategic Group buys Calgary tower for $17M, plans residential conversion
Calgary-based real estate company Strategic Group has purchased the former Chevron Plaza, a 25-storey office tower in downtown Calgary, with plans to convert it into 332 residential units.
renx.ca
- Barron Building (610 8th Ave. SW, Calgary) – Targeting Spring 2026 completion with 124 high end rentals;
- One01 (101 6th Ave. SW, Calgary) – The former Hanover office tower in downtown Calgary has been renamed and will have 314 residential suites with expected occupancy in November
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What's old is new again. Pre-"Red Mile" you had a bunch of retail, including clothing shops, that was swept away in favour of bars and restaurants. Now the pendulum has swung back.
Albertasaurus
Senior Member
To be fair, they've been at a good pace with their Hannover conversion. I am excited to see how much the thousands of new housing units in these various conversions will impact the vibrancy of the downtown core over the next few years. For example, the Hannover conversion, when considered in addition to the residential portion of Telus Sky, likely means 1000 or more new residents on that block. We always get roasted for downtown being quiet after 5 pm (unfairly, IMO, because that also describes just about every other large North American city).Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming.
Strategic Group buys Calgary tower for $17M, plans residential conversion
Calgary-based real estate company Strategic Group has purchased the former Chevron Plaza, a 25-storey office tower in downtown Calgary, with plans to convert it into 332 residential units.
- Barron Building (610 8th Ave. SW, Calgary) – Targeting Spring 2026 completion with 124 high end rentals;
- One01 (101 6th Ave. SW, Calgary) – The former Hanover office tower in downtown Calgary has been renamed and will have 314 residential suites with expected occupancy in November
This also helps explain why we don't have a lot of residential highrises u/c (at least compared to Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver) because all these conversions represent a thousand or so units, at least, on top of all the towers Truman and others are building.
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Roaring Flames
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The title to that article definitely gave me a scare. What fool calls an acquired building downtown a Calgary tower?Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming.
Strategic Group buys Calgary tower for $17M, plans residential conversion
Calgary-based real estate company Strategic Group has purchased the former Chevron Plaza, a 25-storey office tower in downtown Calgary, with plans to convert it into 332 residential units.
- Barron Building (610 8th Ave. SW, Calgary) – Targeting Spring 2026 completion with 124 high end rentals;
- One01 (101 6th Ave. SW, Calgary) – The former Hanover office tower in downtown Calgary has been renamed and will have 314 residential suites with expected occupancy in November
Golfing guy
Active Member
Downtown and rail side of the Beltline have lots of new builds going on right now. There probably 1/2 dozen new builds going right now plus the 20+ conversions. On top of all the new stuff soon to start in the pipeline. We’ll never be Vancouver or Toronto because unlike those cities we have pretty much unlimited greenfield builds. The 40,000 units Calgary built last year can’t be touched by any other city (especially comparing city sizes).
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
For a quick second I had dreams of buying a condo in the Calgary Tower.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Can make the glass floor a bathroom, put a nice claw foot tub right on it lol.
JoeUrban
Active Member
Wasn't the Area Redevelopment Plan just superseded with the new West Elbow Local Area Plan 3 months ago? I'm curious if council will have an appetite to modify a brand new plan that took a year and a half to get through.
Calgcouver
Senior Member
I hope so. We'll know it has fully become Robson St when we have 10 ramen shops to choose from on the same street and a Muji store.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
This is one of these streets where the sized to fit every possible need (except street trees), including street parking. Then they put front driveway homes on it, removing the ability for 95% of the street parking to occur in reality.
So there's a few million dollars of extra asphalt, no trees, ironically no parking and higher than needed liabilities in perpetuity for ever each time this road is repaved for the next 100 years. Plus it will inevitably lead to speeding and traffic calming issues, hopefully there aren't too many deaths or injuries here in the next 100 years.
Great work everyone!
1875
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MichaelS
Senior Member
There is also the challenge with that Legacy and Corrnerstone example of the fact that the carriageway (the asphalt) is supposed to contain painted on-street bike lanes in each direction, complete with a buffer zone, per the City's approved Complete Streets Policy and design guidelines for subdivision servicing. However, the City's operating department just, doesn't bother to do it. Not sure why. Also not sure why it isn't corrected (it is Council policy after all).
When there is enough complaints about the speed of the road though, they WILL take action, and enshrine the angled parking with signage:
CallmeCatbread
Active Member
I drive down that road every day to get home. It blows my mind every time.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
When your houses are ultra close to your neighbour’s you want your cars to at least feel like they can stretch out a little.
