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Note: the blank area around the round window at grade will be a mural.

One of two new apartments going in Blatchford (note the blank area around the round window at grade will be a mural):

Saw two pairs of TPOs patrolling Churchill LRT platform as well as an active arrest by EPS at the Royal Alex LRT station this morning around 9:30 AM (Sunday). Pretty good to see some enforcement during a quiet time of the week.

The name 'West Windsor' is kind of silly given that the site is definitely in the eastern half of WIndsor Park. Maybe David and Richie are fans of alliteration lol

Student Housing Grant

Ok sorry, I thought you were referring generally to the Edmonton market, not specifically Maclab.

I think this is Regency's former strip mall site at Millbourne Road and 76 Street in Tweddle Place.

The main character defining element of the cabin, the logs, seem to be relatively untouched, so I'd say this reno/addition is actually not too bad.

Yup, this is what happens when not many people live around the station - just attracts riff raff.

A bunch of TPOs were recently hired over the last few months so perhaps this increased visible enforcement is a result of that.

Not really, Guelph is on the edge of the GTA, which itself is an hour and a bit from the U.S. border. There are nearly 10 million people within a 4300 km radius of Guelph - from a supply chain perspective, two very different things. When you have access to way more markets, products, etc., as...

Yup, it'll be a BIG building. BIG

Labour and materials (we are pretty far from any other major metropolitan area, so harder to get people to build stuff and also to get the stuff to build).

What was that again?

It comes down to property values, rate of return and cost of construction. Here, property values are lower, rate of return is also lower and cost of construction is higher than Southern Ontario, Lower Mainland, the Okanagan and even Calgary. That, plus the lack of an architecture school/program...