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Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy (Post 8586220)

Steel is going up

Funny, I was there yesterday taking almost the exact same photos

From July 26th 2019

https://i.imgur.com/SGpBd3H.jpg

That's coming along pretty nicely.

Definitely a great addition to the Exchange District Campus.

Looking good.

One question. I thought the new building was going to go over top the old building to include the vacant lot to the east?

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Originally Posted by bomberjet (Post 8648085)

Looking good.

One question. I thought the new building was going to go over top the old building to include the vacant lot to the east?

None of the rendering show that.

Ya I see that. I thought during the initial announcement there was something about teat other lot being included.

Either way, will be a great addition to the neighbourhood.

I'm impressed with the way the new contemporary architecture is being matched with the existing older building. While they are vastly different styles, to my eye they seem to "fit" well together, and in the area as a whole.

Am I just being a hopeless civic booster (guilty) or does our new downtown construction seem to fit extremely well with older existing buildings? It seems like new construction always used to look extremely out of place next to some of our elegant older buildings, but now the combination of contemporary design and older structures seems to "work" for me.

Has anyone else noticed this, or am I delusional?

I agree except for the alt hotel and Mitchell Copp jewelers

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Originally Posted by pspeid (Post 8668079)

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Originally Posted by dennis (Post 8668447)

I agree except for the alt hotel and Mitchell Copp jewelers

I took a friend for a walk by there the other day to show them how stupid Mitchell Copp looks. His response, and he's not a building guy: "why didn't they just make it part of the building?"

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Originally Posted by buzzg (Post 8669148)

Totally agree – I think though that part of that is that we have way more new and significantly renovated building now than we did 10 years ago, so styles/eras and new builds seem to blend way better, just because there's way more variety overall. When everything was grey and beige 10-15 years ago, anything else stood out like crazy.

I took a friend for a walk by there the other day to show them how stupid Mitchell Copp looks. His response, and he's not a building guy: "why didn't they just make it part of the building?"

Unpopular opinion here, but I think the Copp building could have ended up much worse, and I think when something is eventually built on the O Calcutta site, it will look good to have it there.

Yes, it would have been better if it had actually been used as the main entrance, but I think we'll be glad in the future that they did what they did with it.

https://i.imgur.com/qKg78hG.jpg
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Originally Posted by bomberjet (Post 8648085)

Looking good.

One question. I thought the new building was going to go over top the old building to include the vacant lot to the east?

Red River tried to get that lot as part of this development but the owner wouldn't sell.

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