Windermere
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Does anyone have any idea what is going in here?
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Currents of Windermere
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Canadian 001
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They decided to Plop an apartment Building Right There cuz Why Not 
thommyjo
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Views are going to be 
MacLac
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Strange....office building parkade? No way did a new residential buiding "slip by" our super sleuths on here....lol
channing76
New Member
82 unit mixed use building according to an article MacLac posted in miscellaneous.
MacLac
Senior Member
That's me! For some reason I thought this "hole" in the ground was a different project than the 1 mentioned, for the mere fact that the shoring and the hole is dug already.....
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VaultBoy
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Awesome news to see a residential building go up here. Adds to the area and breaks up parking lot ocean
bodsbods9090
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They (developers) should be looking at doing more of this within the area. Makes sense to actually put, you know, people living there seeing as there's restaurants and grocery stores.
Glenco
Senior Member
Another consequence of the removal of minimum parking requirements?
Barnaby
Active Member
It will be somewhat amusing if power centres and malls become some of the best mixed used areas for affordable housing/walkability. From day one you have everything you need at your doorstep.
Most do need better transit service, though.
Most do need better transit service, though.
thommyjo
Senior Member
I find proximity and non car use don’t always correlate though.
I have a friend across the street from currents in those existing towers. They still drive to anything within currents.
People will walk 20mins in Wihkwentowin and will drive for what’s a 10min walk in the suburbs simply because of design. Diagonally crossing massive parking lots, especially in the winter, doesn’t make a lot of people choose to walk.
IanO
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'I have a friend across the street from currents in those existing towers. They still drive to anything within currents.'
Oh my.
Oh my.
EdmTrekker
Senior Member
The Currents was never constructed with pedestrian traffic in mind, Its totally car centric.
https://shopcurrents.ca/directory/shopping-map/
IanO
Superstar
Ironically, it WAS intended to be an improvement over SEC and had a significant 'outdoor mall' and walking core.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Car dependent sprawl gunna make people car.
This is why our dense suburbs are great for reducing wasted land, but fail at most other measures of good city planning imo.
They’re essentially faux urbanism. Pretending to have more urban elements, while every home still being 2 cars, driving for 90% of trips, and land use still being heavily segregated.
Shifter had a good video on it recently criticizing calgarys new suburbs for pretending to be “walkable” and such.