My take on these listings? Streetside convinced the city to change the zoning rules to allow 14-foot-wide townhomes and probably had a hold on these lots but their sales have flopped so they are pulling back from Blatchford. Hopefully another builder can step in here!
They're priced too high for lower-budget buyers, but the finishings and features are too limited to attract higher-budget buyers. Hopefully whoever shows interest in these lots (fingers crossed for NDura) understands where the shortage of demand is coming from.
I talked with Streetside's area manager, and she said that they're actually looking at another plot in Blatchford. The city was trying to impose some additional conditions that would bump up the prices of the homes, and Streetside is currently trying to push back on that to keep the homes in the same price range as their current offerings. FWIW, their sales have really picked up; there are only eight three-storey townhomes left (and six of those are in the rowhouse still under construction), and a couple of bungalows have sold so far. I know they get criticized for their looks, but they're an important option to have - if I were to buy a home in Blatchford, the three-storey streetside homes are the only ones there I could actually afford. Earlier in the thread, people were talking about the differences between how these look, versus the older townhomes in Blatchford. It's worth noting that there's also a $500k price gap between them.
Interesting, looks like there's two plots for sale across the street from each other. 16 plots each, meaning 32 in total. Listing one and listing two.
They're surprisingly spacious on the inside too. As a single guy with a couple of cats, they'd make for an excellent starter home. The staffer credited the increase in sales to perceptions about Blatchford changing, with more people seeing it as a desirable neighbourhood to live in.
It's my first choice neighborhood, but I simply cannot afford to live there. I do like the bungalows too, despite the unusual setbacks.
Like so many Dub proposals, this appears to be vapourware. The locations shown in the concept art are either NAIT land or City owned. The lake is from the original design competition and this plan would seem to require that Bravo Boulevard not exist and something weird be done with the LRT line.
I ask this half-seriously: Is Dub just one guy doing everything?
This is probably a better comment for the infill thread, but it's a natural transition so I'll put it here - the City (currently the urban planning committee but soon council as a whole) is hearing a report on barring upzoning applications for residential areas that aren't 400m or less from a major node or corridor. The idea is to densify transit-heavy areas faster, and to slow down the strain on infrastructure (especially street parking and traffic) in established, low-density neighbourhoods.