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The technology is there to make it sound proof, the only question is if the developers have the incentive to spend the money. |
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So, you may hear a ton of noise from one neighbour and none from the one on the other side. |
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I can also hear my idiot neighbours smoking weed and laughing maniacally on their patio at 3am. I though sound carried well in a standard suburb, but it carries extremely well in a townhouse complex. I'm going to miss the cold winter weather that kept them inside. |
I'd take a highrise over most townhouses developed these days. They rarely divide them with enough sound proofing. One of my friends who purchased a new build in Cornell up in Markham was told during sales the row houses would be built with cinder blocks separating each unit. Upon construction that clearly wasn't the case. When she spoke to the developer they said they were using a modern type of build that offered better sound proofing. It doesn't work. I live in a row house that's only 7 years old but it was built like a loft with concrete walls. I've never heard my next-door neighbor. Mind you it's an accounting office and they are gone by the time I get home.
I'd never move into a multi-unit low rise unless I knew how it was built first. As stated above even 1970 highrises are better then most townhouses. I also had friends living in the town homes in Liberty Village and you could here the next-door neighbor vacuuming. |
Doing some market research, and lo and behold... the amount of power centers per capita, for each province!
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5029/retailmarket.png |
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Montreal with 2nd lowest shopping centers per capita, hell ya.
Making me proud ;) |
I thought Vancouver's rate would be low, but not the lowest, wow. We must be doing something right. (Geography and land prices don't hurt either)
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Looked at stats very similar to these a few weeks ago in a lecture on retail land development. I think we were looking at total retail space per capita, but the trend was pretty much identical. The broker said that although 'retail culture' does have a small part to play in the numbers, it usually has more to do with the way the local markets work. For example, Victoria and Van tend to be lower because of the effect of the ability to shop in the states. Whereas places like Halifax, Edmonton and Calgary come in high because retail in Halifax supports pretty much all of the maritimes, whereas Calgary and Edmonton draw a lot from Sask and the North.
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I think it has to do more with the fact that most of Montreal was built up before power centers became mainstream. In the 90's/early 2000's Toronto still had (and still has) plenty of vacant space/old industrial land to build crap like the Leaside Center.
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The populations they used in their calculations are a bit wonky. For example, Ottawa apparently lost population from 2010 to 2011 according to the chart, and there's obviously something off with the per capita power centre number for Toronto. I reran the per capita figures using the actual Statistics Canada population estimates for CMAs, and the picture is roughly the same as here except for a few details. The general per capita figures for shopping centres and power centres is slightly lower and Ottawa's increase in per capita amounts is less than shown. One key difference is that Winnipeg had a per capita increase in shopping Centre and power centre s.f. per capita instead of a decrease, Ottawa had a decrease in power centre s.f. per capita, and Toronto's power centre s.f. per capita only increased slightly instead of by 50% or so.
I don't normally try to replicate results that I come across like this, but the numbers seemed off to me. It makes me realize just how often I take graphs and charts like this for granted, though. Perhaps I should do this more often. |
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PS:. Ask anyone who's lived there, Montreal has a lot more wealth than meets the eye (or meets the income statements). Not that I'm proud of it. |
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^Nah. Power centres are generally a cheaper place to buy things. One could argue that the lack of power centres means the public has more money to buy from niche ie. expensive retailers. As for Vancouver, like San Francisco, there isn't the land for these centres, so the retailers have to figure out other ways to integrate their stores in the the urban fabric (see Vancouver's downtown Costco; a retailer that is traditionally found in a power centre).
Whatever the reason, I'm just glad that there isn't many of these blights in Vancouver. I can't express how much I dislike the concept and the execution. |
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