CALGARY | Eau Claire | 135M/443FT | 100M/328FT | 80M/263FT | 50M/164FT | 45M/148FT

Chadillaccc · #1 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 8:50 PM**

This incredible development definitely needs its own thread. It will add thousands of residents and office workers to Calgary's CBD/Eau Claire area, and hundreds of hotel patrons as well.

Tower 1, at 35 storeys and ~135 meters will be office.
Tower 2, at 25 storeys and ~100 meters will be mixed use (hotel/residential)
Tower 3, at 20 storeys and ~80 meters will be residential.
Tower 4, at 15 storeys and ~50 meters will be residential.
Tower 5, at 13 storeys and ~45 meters will be residential.

The Land Use Amendment has been submitted, with the DP currently being worked on as well. The project is expected to start in early 2015, and will take 7 - 10 years to complete all phases.

Here are some renderings...

http://www.crebnow.com/harvard-devel...claire-market/

http://globalnews.ca/news/980340/gal...ic-eau-claire/

http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2014/01...ents-2013.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWZM1wdWV5c

... and the project video presentation...

• Video Link

Dale · #2 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 9:06 PM**

Stunning! Any info on the retail component ?

Chadillaccc · #3 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 9:22 PM**

The site is currently occupied by the Eau Claire Market in downtown Calgary. The ground and 2nd floors of the entire development (excluding residential, hotel, and office lobbies) would be the rebuilt Eau Claire Market, so it would be an open -air mall type retail experience in the summer (refer to the video where the wall literally folds up to make it open air) and a closed air atrium-style mall in the winter. The public plaza will be adapted for all seasons, with a performance stage in the summer turning into a skating rink in the winter, and other such stuff like that. Here is the information about the plaza redevelopment, which has been designed and will be handled by the City of Calgary.

It includes PDF's showing the uses of various sites in and around the plaza.

http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Parks/Pag...velopment.aspx

Dale · #4 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 9:45 PM**

Thanks, Chad. Sounds like wise-use. Will keep an eye on this beauty.

Chadillaccc · #5 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 10:20 PM**

No problem

A block over, in the same neighbourhood (Eau Claire) there is unofficially announced (but leaked) proposal by Great West Life for 7 residential towers across two surface parking lots, apparently with a pedestrian scale never before seen in Canada. So that is pretty exciting news

That whole area of downtown is going to see massive densification over the next decade or so.

Dale · #6 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 10:27 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

No problem

A block over, in the same neighbourhood (Eau Claire) there is unofficially announced (but leaked) proposal by Great West Life for 7 residential towers across two surface parking lots, apparently with a pedestrian scale never before seen in Canada. So that is pretty exciting news

That whole area of downtown is going to see massive densification over the next decade or so.

Good, but can we please limit these blockbuster announcements to one per day ?

Chadillaccc · #7 Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 10:32 PM**

Oh haha this Eau Claire one was proposed in November. I think no one got around to putting it in the global section till now because it has so many towers and usually the developments on here are one or two max, so maybe it should be in the "general developments" section. But they're all highrises, so why not put em here!

I believe the GWL proposal will be sometime this year.

Surrealplaces · #8 Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 3:19 PM**

I almost forgot about this one!

Calgarian · #9 Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 3:27 PM**

Development I'm looking forward to the most!

Design-mind · #10 Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 6:57 PM**

Is there any indication of what phase will start off the project? The mall or one of the towers.

Chadillaccc · #11 Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 6:59 PM**

I believe the office tower (135+ meters) is phase 1. I'm not sure if it will include the market or not. Logically it should... however, it would be a huge expense to build the tower, the huge parkade for the office, market, and 2 shortest residential towers, plus the construction pads on top of the market for the two res towers. So I feel like we may just get the office first, but who knows.

Surrealplaces · #12 Posted **Apr 3, 2015, 7:51 PM**

This proposal was submitted a while back, and was approved by the Calgary Planning Commission

DEVELOPMENT PERMIT – NEW: RESTAURANT: LICENSED -
SMALL, RESTAURANT: FOOD SERVICE ONLY - SMALL, CHILD
CARE SERVICE, HOTEL, MULTI-RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT, RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE,
SUPERMARKET (10 PHASES, 7 BUILDINGS, 1095 UNITS)
EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY (WARD 7)
2 AVENUE SW AND 5 STREET SW

This Development Permit application is for a phased development of seven (7) primarily
residential mixed-use towers, ranging between 66 metres and 109 metres in height, across two
(2) city blocks in Eau Claire, providing 1095 dwellings units and 421 hotel rooms.

E1-19 Floors, 66 meters
W1-19 Floors, 66 meters
W2-28 Floors, 83 meters
H1-20 Floors, 87 meters
E2-27 Floors, 90 meters
W3-29 Floors, 93 meters
W4 -33 Floors, 109 meters

Surrealplaces · #13 Posted **Apr 3, 2015, 7:58 PM**

Eau Claire Proposal by Render Central, on Flickr

Eau Claire Proposal by Render Central, on Flickr

E1-19 Floors, 66 meters
W1-19 Floors, 66 meters
W2-28 Floors, 83 meters
H1-20 Floors, 87 meters
E2-27 Floors, 90 meters
W3-29 Floors, 93 meters
W4 -33 Floors, 109 meters

whiteford · #14 Posted **Apr 4, 2015, 12:10 AM**

what happened to that very cool square block that was chopped/sculpted, into a very, very cool tower project? was that not on this same block or what?