Recent content by kcantor

True but… there’s a big difference between maintaining party loyalty and effectively shutting down any and all dissenting opinions or debate in the legislature or in committee. Controlling the vote is not the same as controlling all discussion and whether or not there will even be any discussion.

^ I’ve often wondered what the percentages would be if they were weighted to total dollars and not individual projects, ie if you had $500 million in total project values and a $200 million dollar project was over budget and was late, then only a maximum 60% of your capital budget expenditures...

While not disagreeing with the percentages, they’re not completely percentages of equals. A $25,000 exterior slab outside of a fire station is a capital project that gets the same rankings as Jasper New Vision or the District Energy projects.

On the other hand, you could say this has never been an effective functioning government. Which is what probably got them here. :(

Yeah… but how do like those those license plates and the ability to drive faster!

^ Or you do what Ruth’s Chris did with the ones in their basement space and simply repurpose it. All it would take would be a bit of additional underpinning.

Those that were restored were almost always vaudeville type theatres that also showed films but also had stages (sometimes with orchestral pits), green rooms, steeper rakes in their sloped floors, loading and storage, and sometimes even fly-towers etc., all things that are either impossible or...

I didn’t see Chris’ presentation but there are some strong elements in that slide. The most transformational for the core might be the reestablishment of 102 Street between 102 and 103 Avenue. Then we could try and do the same thing for 101A Avenue through Canada Place (only at the ground...

One might also say that a lot of the issues that make infill no longer a niche topic are because the changes were not sufficiently vetted by many of those in the development industry who could have "red-flagged" the issues being built in and worked to develop better solutions.

I'm not 100% current on code interpretation but if the first floor ceiling/second floor floor is concrete and provides a 4 hour fire separation, I think you could do a six story frame structure on top of it... Elevator shafts and other penetrations would need some interesting detailing -...

Sorry but I don't get your Qualico reference...

It wasn’t just this building - there were probably at least a dozen as prominent, some of them even more significant, and probably dozens more not as prominent but equally missed.

There were a few incidental artifacts saved and subsequently sold but nothing of substance. It’s pretty easy to see why in this video. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3897185

As for the below grade station level, I would convert that to parking. I would then remove two of the interstitial parkade floors so they have height and convert the lower one to additional retail overlooking the Station Lands park and the upper one to amenity spaces for the residential.

This might help - you can see the Macdonald’s Consolidated building in the background, the baggage handling cross dock shed that sat south of EPCOR Tower that was only (relatively) recently demolished, and the still existing park between 103A and 104 Avenues.