General Infill Discussion

[Avenuer]

Gene Dub owns just shy of two full city blocks in the Boyle Street area and has a proposal in rendering form for most of the land he owns there.

We should be seeing his student housing project south of the EPS HQ starting in the next year-ish.

 

[TAS]

We should be seeing his student housing project south of the EPS HQ starting in the next year-ish.

Amazing news! And I liked this design if it's the same one posted somewhere previously.

Do you have it @Avenuer?

 

[IanO]

Risk-taking in redevelopment is paying off for Edmonton

'The track Edmonton is on is a leadership role in several respects,' says Gregg Lintern, former chief planner for the City of Toronto.

edmontonjournal.com

 

[Airboy]

Was out along Fairway drive area last night, Holy crap is there a lot of construction. a good 1/4 of the lots have fences around them or are new homes. Big ugly beasts. Why do people, when they have money build these monster square soulless boxes.

 

[David A]

Was out along Fairway drive area last night, Holy crap is there a lot of construction. a good 1/4 of the lots have fences around them or are new homes. Big ugly beasts. Why do people, when they have money build these monster square soulless boxes.

Because they can and they mistakenly believe a lot of space in itself is impressive. Unfortunately there is not always a correlation between taste and money and we do not have many older examples of grand design to follow.

 

[MacLac]

Was out along Fairway drive area last night, Holy crap is there a lot of construction. a good 1/4 of the lots have fences around them or are new homes. Big ugly beasts. Why do people, when they have money build these monster square soulless boxes.

Cause a certain demographic needs 12 bedroom homes to house 4 generations of their families in there…..

 

[trevorhayden]

Given the trends, I foresee the City taking a gradual approach to regulating parking in more and more neighbourhoods. I don't think they will bring in parking minimums.