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Old Posted Nov 25, 2014, 5:26 AM
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Another TOD on the spadina line, The Yorkdale Condominiums launched this summer, and will be constructed on the southern end of the Yorkdale subway station. Has the bonus of easy access to Yorkdale Mall. First part of the Regent-Park style redevelopment of the Lawrence heights neighborhood.

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Old Posted Nov 27, 2014, 12:09 AM
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Any plans to reno the Yorkdale subway station?
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Old Posted Nov 27, 2014, 2:37 AM
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apparently it will be getting a facelift from the section 37 funds from the Yorkdale Mall expansion, including the reintroduction of its public art component.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2014, 8:26 AM
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Sweet. Hopefully they don't overdo it as it is pretty unique station currently.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2014, 8:48 AM
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The growth in Burnaby's transit oriented town centres has been phenomenal in recent years. I don't know if there is anywhere in suburban North America outside of Toronto that is comparable.

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Aggressive urban planning around SkyTrain stations in Burnaby is turning the municipality into Metro Vancouver’s hotbed for condo development, according to an Urban Development Institute report.

Heavy pre-sales in projects such as Station Square at Metrotown and the redevelopment of Brentwood Town Centre added up to almost 30 per cent of all new-construction sales across Metro Vancouver, outpacing Vancouver’s downtown and west side neighbourhoods.

Throw in the city’s east side and Vancouver still sold more condominiums, but Burnaby’s high-density push is bringing development levels between the two cities closer together.

To the end of the third quarter, Burnaby saw 1,613 presales of condos under development compared with 1,394 for downtown and west-side Vancouver combined, UDI reported.

In total, developers have projects that add up to 14,548 units in the planning stage in Burnaby, within striking distance of the 14,766 in the City of Vancouver’s planning process.

From Burnaby’s point of view, that push is a deliberate strategy. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan referred to the city’s transit-oriented town centres as “our city’s economic drivers” in a speech related to activity on the five-tower Station Square development at Metrotown Town Centre.

And he wasn’t just referring to construction jobs, but also the new commercial development that has come along with the development and the population growth that it supports.

Burnaby has done a lot to encourage development with recently revamped town centre plans and re-zoning exercises, such as the major redevelopment of Brentwood Town Centre, according to Michael Ferreira, an analyst with Urban Analytics, the firm that compiled the UDI report.

The city has also allowed bigger towers, in the 40-50-storey range with large numbers of units in each one, which has contributed to the surge of new units in presales.

However, Ferreira added, “if you don’t have people who want to live there, it doesn’t matter what the city does. And I think Burnaby’s got a lot going for it in that sense.”

Between the long-established amenities at Metrotown, Brentwood and Edmonds town centres, it’s easily accessible by the freeway as well as SkyTrain and the next-most-convenient location to Vancouver’s central attractions.

Prices for new condos are also $100 per square foot cheaper than in Vancouver, Ferreira said.

Developer Greg Zayadi described Burnaby as having “probably the deepest pool of buyers” of any community in the Lower Mainland.

Some 660 of Burnaby’s presales so far this year have been in two buildings at the Station Square development that Zayadi’s firm — Anthem Properties Group Ltd — is developing with Beedie Development Group.

Zayadi, Anthem’s vice-president of sales and marketing, added that the biggest contingent of their buyers are people who already have Burnaby addresses — 40 per cent. Of the investor buyers purchasing, he said most appear to be buying units that other members of their family will probably live in.

He said fewer than 10 per cent, about 40 buyers, put offshore addresses on their purchase contracts.

Zayadi added that Burnaby does make the development process easy for them in terms of a clear path through zoning, the design phase, establishment of community amenities.

“All of that is a nice, straightforward process,” Zayadi said. “From a working relationship point of view, it’s probably one of the best municipalities.”

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Amazing Brentwood. Tower 1 is sold out tower 2 is more than 50% sold.


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This is how TOD looks like in Brentwood (Burnaby).









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Just a few more observations with regard to the Stampede Grounds. Upon closer inspection of the surrounding area, I see that there are 2 LRT stations serving the 10 day Stampede. I know the Stampede is a huge part of the city culture, but in the greater scheme of things, having transit oriented development so close to the CBD would imo far outweigh having the 10 day Stampede right downtown. Is having it right downtown really that vital? As an urban enthusiast, it's hard to ignore the huge potential those lands have.
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Stampede is an important event for Calgary. Much more than another community of office blocks and condo towers. Stampede doesn't have to move out of the core for theseclands to have a better year round useage. The board seems to be the largest impediment .
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Do the lands include the area north of the Saddledome and the area south of 12 ave SE?
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^ The Stampede grounds are also an important venue for conferences, trade shows, and of course also host the ever-growing Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. They are used for more than just the Stampede.
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There are also plenty of developable plots before the Stampede grounds need to be addressed.
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I'm sure they will get filled up as the Eastside Village construction continues and land is quickly consumed in that area. It wasn't that long ago that the Westside of downtown Calgary was basically vacant.
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I'm sure they will get filled up as the Eastside Village construction continues and land is quickly consumed in that area. It wasn't that long ago that the Westside of downtown Calgary was basically vacant.
The cluster of the Macleod Monsters near Vic Park Station could be considered TOD in the area. Between Vetro, Sasso, Nuera x 2, Keynote x 3 towers (2 res, 1 office) there is probably ~1,000 - 1,500 units within a few hundred metres of the station, all built in the past 10 or so years.

...Of course, the station and the towers do little to even act like they are related to each other. Narrow sidewalks immediately near the station, dank spiral ramp over auto-heavy Macleod Trail. Missing the "Design" part of Transit Oriented Design.
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The Stampede had planned out (but backed out due to the economic downtown) a branded environment that would stretch along 4th street from the new under pass to 12 Avenue SW and continuing along Olympic Way - it would be a mixture of mixed use buildings (commercial ground floor and either offices/residential above) to create a high street. The idea had been to create a themed environment that would lead into the stampede and eliminate the parking lots (moving parking under ground).

Most of the transit oriented development around the two LRT stations for stampede is occurring either on the west side of Macleod Trail (as previously mentioned - in the Beltline), the north side of the stampede grounds (Victoria Park and East Village) or is along the West side of Macleod in the Erlton Community. The large vacant lands at Macleod at 25 Avenue have land use in place for some pretty high density mixed use development. I believe a development permit application is in the works for the site?
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^ The Stampede grounds are also an important venue for conferences, trade shows, and of course also host the ever-growing Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. They are used for more than just the Stampede.
Also grounds for the most recent Cirque du Soleil show to roll through town.
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Yonge and Eglinton Projects - Moving Forward

A possible new urban-shopping, employment and entertainment destination.

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1. Two subway lines, including the new Crosstown line from Etobicoke to Scarborough and the Yonge Line which is the busiest line in the city

2. Highrise gentrification of the intersection with towers now reaching to and above the 200 meter mark.

3. Existing business and residential development from before the boom, provides a backbone for top up development and infill.

4. New developments are built with transit in mind such as the E-Condo building which has integrated transit connections.

5. New developments going South-North on Yonge as well as East and West on Eglinton.


E Condos - Includes Integrated Transit connections.

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Yonge-Eglinton Centre Redevelopment - Includes Underground connections to both Yonge Line / Crosstown (when completed)

http://urbantoronto.ca

Toronto Downtown on the verge of a Major Shift to the North of Yonge and Bloor, to Yonge and Eglinton. A rash of recent development proposals and construction will change the Yonge and Eglinton / Area forever. The foremost development is actually the New Eglinton-Crosstown LRT which will run parallel to the older Bloor-Danforth Line to the south, and the previous demarcation line for the Downtown Core. The line will actually run underground from Don Mills in the East all the way to Mount Albert in the West just by the Etobicoke Border. Providing cross city transportation to the mid-section of the city. The major terminals of the line will be at Yonge and Eglinton as well as Eglinton and Allen Road, where it will intersect with the existing subway networks. Eglinton Crosstown Map and the Bloor Line far to the South In addition to the new East-West Subway Line, there is massive redevelopment at the Intersection on all sides.



Yonge and Eglinton will be the transfer station for both the LRT and the subway so that's going to make it a very busy transfer hub right in the heart of the city actually kind of extending the downtown core north to Yonge and Eglinton and dismal be young and Eglinton center is right in the heart of all of that and it's got lots of new store as well as lots of anchor stores in the lot of renovations to expand the space and allow for bigger retail tenant in the location.

All these new redevelopments will be connected underground, not only to each other and the subway, but also to the new Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which seems set to take over the mantel in the northern core and the limit of the downtown core by the year 2025 when all this development is set to be completed. Along with the thousands of residents the area will become a major focal, urban and terminal point of the city in the next 10 years as the current developments unfold.
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Do the lands include the area north of the Saddledome and the area south of 12 ave SE?
Yes

We can expect high density in these areas.

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Yet another MASSIVE TOD planned for Edmonton on the former Coliseum/Northlands/Horse Track and current Expo lands.

Northlands to become 'Urban Villages'...


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