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Originally Posted by Wormius
On a somewhat lighter side - the guy thought “Alpha House” was a restaurant when he bought his condo.
I don’t feel much sympathy when you are that ignorant of what you are getting into. Do people not look at Google maps when they are looking at places and check out the surrounding business?
https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019...-it-moved.html |
As someone who has lived in the area for about 5 years and lived in Vetro previously there is a reason this is popping up this year and it's entirely on the Alpha House.
For most of the last 10 years the condo residents and the Alpha House have reasonably co-existed. This spring has been a massive cluster#### on the neighboring streets.
In the article the Alpha House claims they often have people on the streets outside the building, this is a Trump level lie. This was true in years past but now exceedingly rarely do you see Alpha House staff outside unless summoned outside to deal with an issue.
They're frequently hitting capacity resulting in packs of inebriated people hanging out using the condo buildings nearby both as their person toilets and garbage dumps.
With the developments under way a couple blocks north and the proposed developments to the south and west this is going to be one of the densest residential areas of the city.
37 years ago the location of the Alpha House might have made sense but that doesn't necessarily mean it does now.
If the Alpha house wants to continue to exist in its current location it needs to step up it's game and do more to mitigate it's impact and be a better neighbour, if it can't do that, it needs to be moved to an area it will be less impactful. This spring it is not holding up it's end of the bargain.