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Originally Posted by bomberjet
The City now owns the land north of the pemby site, north of the old parker ave right of way. CN used to won that land, and still owns all the land south of Parker.
They could've made the pemby thing an L shape or something else to use the land adjacent to the transitway, Jubilee loops, etc which is now land locked.
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I'm guessing they are building what they can afford and would rather just work with the lot they own rather than jump through the bureaucratic hoops of buying city land that the city may or may not want to keep, slowing down any plans they had in place in exchange for uncertainty.
The builders may even have a phase 2 in mind where they buy that land off the city, who knows. If it really came down to it and land values justified it enough, that lot will be developed. Parker could be extended to service this building with no connection to Pembina if needed.
Pembina also has no shortage of low value strip malls with parking fronting the street that can also be developed into something better.
The city is in need of these types of densification projects and this is the ideal development along a corridor like Pembina, near transit, and the "they should've done it this way instead" tone just irked me.