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GGG · 09-07-2017, 11:36 PM

A 50,000 person Campus is about 10 Brookfield places.

Calgary downtown has about 150k employees.

It would take probably 10 years to go from 0 to 50k.

So you hook them up with Brookfield Place for 2-3 years for the first 5000 people while you start building the Campus. Imperials Campus is very low density (4 story spread out buildings) so not really a good comparison for density. I think west village would be big enough but if you want to go the CRL route you really start to Canabalize the tax base in the area if you are giving them significant tax breaks to build the Campus.

However unlike an arena you really would get spiking property values around the arena and new employment to support the residential expansion.

09-07-2017, 11:36 PM	#49
GGG Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2008 Exp:	A 50,000 person Campus is about 10 Brookfield places. Calgary downtown has about 150k employees. It would take probably 10 years to go from 0 to 50k. So you hook them up with Brookfield Place for 2-3 years for the first 5000 people while you start building the Campus. Imperials Campus is very low density (4 story spread out buildings) so not really a good comparison for density. I think west village would be big enough but if you want to go the CRL route you really start to Canabalize the tax base in the area if you are giving them significant tax breaks to build the Campus. However unlike an arena you really would get spiking property values around the arena and new employment to support the residential expansion. Last edited by GGG; 09-07-2017 at 11:39 PM.