Meh, more like "Vancouver developers who have built several cookie-cutter condo towers over the last 15 years are leaving Calgary". Their bread and butter is high-rise condos, and frankly I think our market is entirely oversaturated with them and they're not particularly desirable anyway.
I think we have a massive dearth of denser low-rise forms of housing. There's too little being built between two-storey side-by-side duplexes and high-rise condo towers. The Vancouver developers who are the subject of that article specialize in mediocre condo towers: they don't do anything else well. They came here to make a buck because the Calgary market was preposterously hot: they're not really interested in "city-building" per se.
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