Glenco
Senior Member
Their best alternative is a shuttle bus to South Campus
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U of A real estate
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Seamusmuldrew
Active Member
I don’t think there’s any need for new service. The 55 and 706 buses stop right at the West and North sides of the area and bring you straight to Southgate, and the 702 is basically already a shuttle bus to South Campus.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Michener Park Concept
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Words cannot describe just how awfully depressing this is. It looks like the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
IanO
Superstar
REMINDER - it's just a concept design, massing and zoning study image from early days, but it gives you an idea of what's to likely come.
MacLac
Senior Member
Everytime you post this picture Ian, posters on here lose their shit, saying what the above guy just said. Please hold off on posting this picture going forward as some people on here have short term memeory and forget, like you said, “concept, massing ONLY.”
Gronk!
Senior Member
They can do much much better than this.
MacLac
Senior Member
“Massing” ONLY!!!!!!!!!! What part of that dont you understand? Ffs!
David A
Senior Member
Yes, it seems mediocre from the picture. There are some elements which are not terrible and perhaps it can be improved enough to possibly even turn out to be adequate although not great, but it could go the other way too.
archited
Senior Member
A reputable builder will make all the difference -- try Rohit for example or Cantiro...
IanO
Superstar
University District in Calgary for reference.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Just wondering why no high-rise development. So much potential for infill.
itom987
Active Member
They could have done the massing much better than what they came up with.
ChazYEG
Senior Member
I don't think this is the best place for high-rises, but it would be nice to see it be a bit denser, maybe more 5 or 6 story buildings with ground floor units opening to the street. I would honestly love to see Edmonton go more the "Europe way" with a lot of low and mid rise buildings except for the CBD, Winketowin and Garneau, where we already have nice clusters of towers. We'd have more complete blocks and a more human scale, which is very nice, imo. Stadium Yards is a great example of what I would love to see around the city in general
Agard
New Member
The "Europe way" isn't really better than building denser than the "Europe way", it's just better than the North American way. Building even denser than the European way would be generally better. That being said, I don't feel like there's much crazy missed potential with this site not being high rises
Agard
New Member
Expanding on that: there's not really a tradeoff present between developing only this site as high rises or redeveloping a much larger area of the south side to "European density". It's either you build more in a specific area or less, that's why I'm not very partial to the idea of building "European density" instead of high rises