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Old 02-02-2024, 03:09 PM   #2441
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If the Raccoon Union fought the Rat Union....you could probably sell tickets to that!
They’d likely put their differences aside to fight the real enemy, large corporations exploiting them as underpaid mascots to make a quick buck.
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Old 02-02-2024, 04:06 PM   #2442
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Well you don’t want rats in a Union, that’s for sure. So I guess you’re not completely wrong.
Not the dirty, yellow-bellied kind, anyway.
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Old 02-02-2024, 06:28 PM   #2443
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How windy is Alpine Park? Based on its location it looks like it could get very windy up there

Good call. It could rip pretty good over there. Looking forward to see how that development goes. People are spending some money to live there.

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Old 02-03-2024, 12:52 PM   #2445
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How windy is Alpine Park? Based on its location it looks like it could get very windy up there
I can't say for sure because I haven't spent a lot of time up in that area. However, I live nearby (on the other side of Fish Creek Park) and we don't experience a lot of wind activity around here relative to other parts of the city.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ture-1.7108531

Grand Theatre in danger of closing as landlord Allied REIT (who bought the building in 2021) rejects sustainability plan (apparently with no warning).
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Last week City Council approved the land use change for the Osteria site in Kensington to allow for a building up to 16 storeys. Overnight Monday a fire broke out on the site and it sounds like the building is a lost cause now.
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I'm sure the insurance company is totally not going to be suspicious about that one...
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Last week City Council approved the land use change for the Osteria site in Kensington to allow for a building up to 16 storeys. Overnight Monday a fire broke out on the site and it sounds like the building is a lost cause now.
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Last week City Council approved the land use change for the Osteria site in Kensington to allow for a building up to 16 storeys. Overnight Monday a fire broke out on the site and it sounds like the building is a lost cause now.
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Can someone take a second and remind me of the issues with this? I know that years ago a developer wanted to put a 12 story building there and that was rejected. Then they got approval for the 16 story and now it's burned down. I can't remember the controversy and such though.
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Probably too much evidence to just demolish the building normally.
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I don't get it, yes maybe someone wants the insurance payout but wouldn't the developers have had to pay out the landlords/tenants to demolish the building to put up the 16 story condo anyway? Doesn't this just accelerate that?
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I don't get it, yes maybe someone wants the insurance payout but wouldn't the developers have had to pay out the landlords/tenants to demolish the building to put up the 16 story condo anyway? Doesn't this just accelerate that?
I'm no commercial leasing agent but is there an act of god clause that gets them out of that issue?
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I'm no commercial leasing agent but is there an act of god clause that gets them out of that issue?
Let's not just assume the Terrigno family are deities.
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Things that make you go hmmm...
Probably a Brylcreem fire from the owners of that restaurant.
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Can someone take a second and remind me of the issues with this? I know that years ago a developer wanted to put a 12 story building there and that was rejected. Then they got approval for the 16 story and now it's burned down. I can't remember the controversy and such though.
They are basically Calgary's version of the Jersey Shore cast who wishes and acts as if they are the Sopranos cast.
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I'm sure the insurance company is totally not going to be suspicious about that one...
As a card-carrying cynic I may have missed my calling as an insurance adjuster.

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