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Old Posted Sep 26, 2009, 4:35 PM
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the city has released their numbers for individual neighboods (2009 census). Keep in mind that these numbers are from back in April. Union Square and Colors were just starting to move people in. I'm not sure how many people had moved into Xenex, Castello, Nova, and Vetro at that time.

Here's some of the inncer city stats:

...............................................2009............2008

BELTLINE _______________18, 341.......17,818....+ 523
CHINATOWN _____________1,287........1,281......+6
DOWNTOWN COMM CORE __7,719.........7,887.... -168
DOWNTOWN EAST VILLAGE 2,448..........2,316....+132
DOWNTOWN WEST END____2,288..........2,634....-346
EAU CLAIRE ______________1,716..........1,638....+78
MISSION/CB______________6,350.........6,020....+330
KENSINGTON_____________9,749..........8,994....+755

Total.......................................49,898..........48,588....1,310


http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/...isonbycomm.pdf


Here's a look at Beltline over the last 5 years.
http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/...s/beltline.pdf

2004 - 16,119
2005 - 16,360
2006 - 16,662
2007 - 17,794
2008 - 17,818
2009 - 18,341

Another thing to note: According to the two documents the number of occupied suites in the Beltline has gone up from 10,360 in 2006 to 11,310 in 2009. The total number of all suites is apparently 14,617 for the Beltline, with 14,007 of those being apartment/condo. Only 106 single family homes in the Beltline.
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I hope in 8-10 years those numbers will double, at least.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2009, 7:31 AM
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I hope in 8-10 years those numbers will double, at least.
I'll probably be one of them. If some interesting residential projects come up in that time, of course!

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The LaCaille Group conjures up images of grandeur.

After all, under the helm of Peter Livaditis, the company made its name with one of the city's first-- and grandest--high-end restaurants on the banks of the Bow River in tony Eau Claire. Now the company is looking to the suburbs as it works with IBI

Group to plan a "city within a city," says LaCaille Group vice-president Al Schmidt.

"It's not suburban, but it will be a complete community," he says. The company started with the LaCaille on the Bow restaurant, where Livaditis built an executive, exclusive condominium tower attached to the restaurant.

Its success led to a second tower across the street, LaCaille Parke Place.

"Then we built Five West and it's been a great success," says Livaditis, an entrepreneur whose humble roots are still planted in Greece.

"We have been fortunate and we're still planning for a big expansion."

His second-in-command calls it more than good fortune.

"It's a combination of location, quality of product and name recognition," says vice-president Al Schmidt. "People know we work hard and pay attention to detail. We know the business and are dedicated and passionate."

The west end is one of the locations the group believes in, says Schmidt.

"We have three more sites in the downtown area, including a very high-end, 50-storey building that includes a five-star hotel," he says.

"We're just wrapping up the tendering process now to give us an idea of construction costs. We'd like to introduce this to the public by spring 2010 probably.

"We're very optimistic because of the unique offering."

The building proposed for 4th Avenue and 5th Street S.W. is "head and shoulders beyond anything else you see in Calgary today and will be a landmark," says Livaditis.

But some people may not know that LaCaille isn't just a high-end condo tower builder.

"People forget that we've done other things," says Schmidt.

"West Market Square, for example, was ours--and it is one of the proudest things for us that LaCaille has ever done. It has a different signature all over it compared to many other strip malls."

West Market Square is located on the west side on Sirocco Drive S.W.

Now the developer is taking its vision even further. "We saw an opportunity to do something that's very different in an area that's outside the core of the city," says Livaditis. "We'd love the chance to do something that doesn't exist in the city right now."

That "chance" is in two areas in Calgary's suburbs, where LaCaille is working with IBI Group on the "city within a city," says Schmidt.

The areas--one in Sage Hill in the north-central sector and the other within SkyView Ranch in the far northeast--will have a town centre, public spaces and amenities, with high-density condos mixed in.

The plans are following the city's Plan It vision, a new transportation and planning document that is meant to guide the city's growth for the next 60 years.

The largest of LaCaille's areas is one in the heart of Walton Developments' SkyView Ranch. Tentatively called North Pointe, the centre of the area is at Country Hills Boulevard and 60th Street N.E. "The master plan includes a 65-hectare town centre in the heart of the neighbourhood," says Steve Shawcross, a director with IBI Group.

"It will include one million square feet of office space, half a million square feet of retail, an LRT station, a community centre with a library and recreation facilities of roughly 10 acres (four hectares), and up to 8,800 residential units. The majority of these will be multi-family--everything from duplexes, to townhouses, brownstones and walkups-- and, in future, highrises."

The model for some of the proposed building forms is a mixture of Old-World market squares, unique architecture, and pedestrian-friendly streets--all with the aim of creating a "vibrant" community, says Shawcross.

"The setbacks from the street, the heights of buildings, the details of addressing the buildings to the street to create a pedestrian environment--regulating the architectural form helps meet the objectives of Plan It, yet ensures a high-quality public realm," he says.

At the end of the day, says Schmidt, "it will be much more a European-style town centre with a number of public squares. Part of High Street will have no vehicles allowed, but the LRT access will be there with public access to a park.

"It will be contributing 24/7 to a lively, vibrant environment that we are striving to achieve. It's the next level of a mixed-use town centre."

The initial plans were approved by city council in July.

"We anticipate starting the first phase within the next two years," says Schmidt.

More immediate is Sage Hill Farm in the heart of Genesis Land Developments' newest neighbourhood of Sage Hill Crossing.

Sage Hill Farm is bounded by land recently approved for future regional commercial development on the north; 37th Street N.W. on the east, Sage Hill Drive N.W. on the south, and a future road on the west.

Much smaller than North Pointe, the area is about 4.7 hectares and will be a "test case for the North Pointe proposal," says Shawcross.

"It will be mixed-use as well with 152,000 square feet of retail/ office space based on a high street, with the possibility of a larger-format grocery store that will be addressed to the main street."

In fact, preliminary plans call for creating a "series of small-town Alberta streetscapes," says Shawcross. "These will be things like a faux-barn that is like the original farmstead, but would be the grocery store. The bank will be in a brick building.

"We want to create a small-town feel to it all to foster social interaction and make it an interesting, community-based place."

The key: "There will be a high stress on creating a pedestrian environment."

Sage Hill Farm will include 350 to 500 residential units, he says.

"There will be an opportunity to create mid-rise condominium towers in the future, but the first will be four storeys," says Shawcross. "These will mix with retail and office space."

These are all similar to the concepts for North Pointe, but on a smaller scale, he says.

"It's all about developing the details, the architecture and the spaces so people will want to spend time here," says Schmidt. "It will be an oasis in a sea of hustle and bustle that is the city.".

LaCaille will likely be taking its development plan to the city in January, says Livaditis.

From there, LaCaille is hoping to start construction by the fall of 2010, with the first buildings to market by 2011.

LaCaille Group continues to work on Solaire, its tower on 4th Avenue and 8th Street S.W. that has 15 units left for sale.

Other projects are in the planning stages, including twin towers along the newly-designed and widened 16th Avenue North at 8th Street N.W.

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This isn't exactly a media article, but as a member of the Alberta Professional Planners Calgary Events Committee, I wanted to post our big event for March that's coming up. Anyone interested can find registration information and we will be doing some evening events (which are still in the planning phase) which I will post later.

Here is the link to our Big City, Big Ideas workshop. Here is the poster.
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Well, it's the outcome that I expected. Thank goodness the NIMBYs didn't their way. I can't believe that community association funds were used in such a trivial way!


Scenic Acres community loses court fight to block francophone school

TREVOR HOWELL, CALGARY HERALD
REID SOUTHWICK, CALGARY HERALD

Published on: January 12, 2015Last Updated: January 12, 2015 7:46 PM MST

Scenic Acres residents opposed to a new francophone school in their neighbourhood lost their legal challenge to block its construction on the site of a popular green space.

Judge D. Blair Nixon ruled Monday the Scenic Acres Community Association would not have been able to stop Counseil Scolaire Francosud from building a regional school for roughly 400 students on an area park.

In an oral decision, Nixon said the city had always planned to approve the school project.

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...cophone-school
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Retrofitting suburbia: Old shopping malls can be saved by their parking lots
'Just about every shopping centre — if they're smart — is looking at this,' consultant says

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Retailers across the country are exploring their options.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, a former retail consultant, sees a lot of potential for it in his city, though for different reasons than some communities.

"A lot of people think it's because 'the mall' is dying, and in fact in Calgary that's not true — our malls are among the most successful in the country," Nenshi said.

"Regardless, they also have huge parking lots. And with the departure of Sears and of Target and, in some cases, they have very big spaces that they need to fill, which actually opens up a huge opportunity for us to think about how 'live, work, shop' in the same place could really look."
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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/calg...ment-1.4480936
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My apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, I'm not usually in the Calgary forum but thought it was interesting to in a major US paper. I'm sure there are bound to be some factual errors Calgarians will know.

Opinion The model city for transforming downtowns? It’s in Canada.
By the Editorial Board
May 18, 2023 at 10:56 a.m. EDT

Almost every direction one looks in downtown Calgary, there’s a crane. The downtown transformation that so many other cities are desperate for is underway in Calgary, a city of 1.4 million in Alberta, which is often dubbed the “Texas of Canada” for its ties to the oil and gas industry. But today, office towers that once housed energy companies are rapidly being converted into apartments. Calgary offers a road map — and a tool kit — for D.C. and other beleaguered cities on how to make the switch rapidly and efficiently.

Calgary got a jump-start on its downtown metamorphosis because of the 2014 oil price crash. Initially, many believed the industry would bounce back, but by the time the coronavirus crisis hit, even the talk at Calgary’s Petroleum Club had turned toward how to reinvent the city.

The numbers were dire: Offices vacancies were at more than 30 percent. There weren’t just empty floors; there were empty towers. Fears spread of the city becoming the “next Detroit.” At City Hall, staff calculated that the value of downtown commercial buildings had nosedived from nearly 25 billion Canadian dollars in 2015 to about 9 billion Canadian dollars in 2021. (One Canadian dollar is worth about 75 cents.) Ultimately, it galvanized the community to take dramatic action.

How can cities revitalize struggling downtowns? We want to hear from you.

The biggest takeaway is to go big and bold. Calgary launched its turnaround plan with 200 million Canadian dollars and a goal to invest 1 billion in the next decade. It included incentives of up to 75 Canadian dollars per square foot for developers, and — equally important — City Hall sped up the permitting process to less than two months. So many developers applied that it was akin to a bidding war.....


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...lization-plan/
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