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Originally Posted by boogerz
You've undershot the population target for East Village by a substantial amount. The planned build-out of East Village is supposed to support 13-14k permanent residents, not just 10-11k.
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Most of the estimates I've seen are not that high. Slokker says 10-11K here:
https://slokker.com/usa/verve-east-v...lgary-alberta/
Other estimates are 11.5K in several years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ress-1.4888504
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Of course the costs are going to look eye popping, but infrastructure isn't cheap and that's the point of high-density development...it's significantly easier to get a ton of bang for our buck with $400M of infrastructure spending (and more) across such a small area.
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High density causes infrastructure to be much more expensive. And as for bang for the buck, I'm reminded of the City's attempts to close down the Inglewood and Beltline recreation centres because of lack of usage and high subsidies/user compared to the more suburban centres.
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Originally Posted by blankall
Do people actually think the library and the East Village was a bad investment. When I went back to Calgary last I walked from the library to my brother's home in Ramsay. It was a night and day difference from what it used to be. This was the area outside my boxing gym in the early 2000s, which was a place that if I parked my car 2 blocks away I felt was genuinely dangerous. Mostly decaying warehouses, railyards, and industrial buildings.
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It's not that they are bad investments, but to show that the inner city does get substantial investment. And if $400M is peanuts, then the anti-sprawl folks should shut up about the cost of the so-called 14 new neighborhoods, which likely won't even cost that much City of Calgary tax support in total while housing many more new residents and businesses.