05-17-2023, 12:39 PM
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#1901
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First Line Centre
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There are some nice houses in Pump Hill but the neighborhood is such a strange layout... if I was spending that kind of money I'd rather be across the street in Bayview backing out onto the reservoir.
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05-17-2023, 12:59 PM
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#1902
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Resident Videologist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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They're also planning on putting 2 high rise condos in the corner of Glenmore Landing by 14 Street. That'd create some nice eyesores for Pump Hill and area.
Last edited by AC; 05-17-2023 at 01:02 PM.
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05-17-2023, 01:02 PM
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#1903
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AC
They're also planning on putting 2 high rise condos in the corner of Glenmore Landing by 14 Street. That'd create some nice eyesores for Pump Hill and area.
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Well 4, but who's counting.
Maybe they should do that at the Promenade in Bonavista?
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05-17-2023, 01:06 PM
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#1904
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AC
They're also planning on putting 2 high rise condos in the corner of Glenmore Landing by 14 Street. That'd create some nice eyesores for Pump Hill and area.
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If you live in Pump Hill, what are you going to look at anyway? The horizon?
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05-17-2023, 01:10 PM
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#1905
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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I can't imagine wanting to live in Pump Hill, never mind living in Pump Hill in a high-rise condo.
Build up the core, stop plopping high-density residential in communities outside the inner city, it's only further screwing up traffic volumes.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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05-17-2023, 01:15 PM
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#1906
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
If you live in Pump Hill, what are you going to look at anyway? The horizon?
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The big gaudy house across the street.
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05-17-2023, 01:18 PM
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#1907
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I can't imagine wanting to live in Pump Hill, never mind living in Pump Hill in a high-rise condo.
Build up the core, stop plopping high-density residential in communities outside the inner city, it's only further screwing up traffic volumes.
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Good news, they have a BRT if they need to go downtown, and plenty of work centres nearby.
It's OK to spread it around some.
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05-17-2023, 01:18 PM
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#1908
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Scoring Winger
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After the whole SW BRT fiasco, I am all for upending and disrupting the lives of the people that live there.
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05-17-2023, 01:21 PM
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#1909
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
Good news, they have a BRT if they need to go downtown, and plenty of work centres nearby.
It's OK to spread it around some.
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Yay sprawl.
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GO FLAMES GO.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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05-17-2023, 01:22 PM
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#1910
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damn onions
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Originally Posted by Slava
Well 4, but who's counting.
Maybe they should do that at the Promenade in Bonavista?
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The concept I heard about for the re-development of the Promenade building in Bonavista was going to be a much larger modern structure. Just brutal. But hey- there’ll be a Phil and Sebastian’s I guess…
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05-17-2023, 01:27 PM
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#1911
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by you&me
Anyone that was around in the late 80s/early 90s in Calgary would also remember this place sitting at framing stage for years. In the elements; rain, snow, sun, repeat... for years. That house should be land value - adjacent to 14th nonetheless - at best.
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I was just going to say, all parts of that exterior look questionable too. The stucco and roof are likely going to need replacing, and when you pull that off, you're likely to find all sorts of moisture/mold issues.
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05-17-2023, 01:29 PM
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#1912
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Yay sprawl.
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Uh, this is the opposite of sprawl, it's densifying an existing area, using dead land. This is exactly what we should be doing.
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05-17-2023, 01:34 PM
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#1913
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by Wormius
If you live in Pump Hill, what are you going to look at anyway? The horizon?
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The Properties in Pump Hill have always been set up to be as isolating as possible. Lots of large tress. Many on set back driveways.
Glenmore Landing itself is already a major eyesore. My great grandparents lived nearby there, and we would visit them in the 80/90s, and not much has changed in there since. Anything to get that place going is a positive.
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05-17-2023, 01:37 PM
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#1914
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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
The concept I heard about for the re-development of the Promenade building in Bonavista was going to be a much larger modern structure. Just brutal. But hey- there’ll be a Phil and Sebastian’s I guess…
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I think you would get a pretty strong pushback and the idea would be universally panned. I doubt it would go through. A renovation would likely be ok.
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05-17-2023, 01:38 PM
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#1915
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Uh, this is the opposite of sprawl, it's densifying an existing area, using dead land. This is exactly what we should be doing.
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Calgary desperately needs a bunch of semi-self contained communities spread throughout the city. Putting density and commercial space only in the core and having the rest be suburbia is a logistics nightmare. Calgary's population is only going to grow. Any and all kind of development in close proximity to transit should be heavily encouraged.
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05-17-2023, 01:40 PM
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#1916
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Western Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
The concept I heard about for the re-development of the Promenade building in Bonavista was going to be a much larger modern structure. Just brutal. But hey- there’ll be a Phil and Sebastian’s I guess…
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Bonavista Promenade is fine as is, just needs a tenant refresh to what is more relevant to the community. Like, we don't need a printer ink store, the coffee shop is not great, the flower shop is depressing
A good Coffee shop with good food is the #1 thing missing from the mall.
A couple of better restaurants would help as well. As it is I rarely eat in Bonavista as good food is in surrounding communities.
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05-17-2023, 01:56 PM
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#1917
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Yay sprawl.
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So more new communities on the edge, and growth to communities even farther out?
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05-17-2023, 01:59 PM
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#1918
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First Line Centre
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You guys got to drive by this abortion of an infill. Bizarre zoning. Clearly some old legacy approval but the house on the left is bizarrely set back has a garage behind the new one somehow.
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...lgary-richmond
the realtor knows its an abortion and has photoshopped the houses out that are 4 inches on either side.
I don't know if I want to live in it or get fataed by it.
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05-17-2023, 02:05 PM
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#1920
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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There have been dozens and maybe even more of these built recently. Builders repeat build these designs by John Trinh and slightly change a finish or two.
I've even seen an application where they submitted the previous lot's plans from a few blocks over and just crossed out the old address. Not a single change.
Imagine owning a new infill home and driving down the street past the exact same thing.
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