Construction Sites In your City II

[someone123]

Excavation began in August on another 2x30 storey tower development in Halifax (now 10x30+ U/C or in the excavation phase). Spring Garden West:


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Not sure what the "future development" to the left is, although there's a lowrise non-heritage brick building with low lot coverage there that's probably a candidate for redevelopment. The one to the right is "The Promenade" which started a while ago but is delayed because they destroyed a heritage house while moving it.

[WhipperSnapper]

Are there really ten plus 30 storey towers under construction or are you counting every tower in multiple phased proposals? Just sayin'; SSP Halifax is quite proactive when it comes to counting developments under construction.

These two look straight out of Waterloo. At least they make all the other mediocre 30 storey tower developments (that I know of) look alot better in all aspects.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Are there really ten plus 30 storey towers under construction or are you counting every tower in multiple phased proposals? Just sayin'; SSP Halifax is quite proactive when it comes to counting developments under construction.

This is meant only to include structures for which there is excavation or construction activity. For example, the Little Brooklyn development in Dartmouth is apparently eventually planned as 4x40 but only one is under construction in this phase so it counts as 1.

It's debatable when to consider something under construction but in practice it's rare (maybe 0 cases in Halifax in the modern era) for a developer to do a bunch of digging and for nothing to ever be built.

There are some more detailed renderings for Spring Garden West but they're a bit limited (I think they were a bit allergic to showing the full height): https://www.mlsarchitects.ca/work/spring-garden-west

I don't have much of an opinion on Waterloo highrises but I think this development is decent and fits in with the area. It is going to have some nice detailing and a masonry podium. Retail spaces all around the base, which this area needs. It's a prominent intersection along a transit corridor, and it's next to what was the city's tallest building back around the 60's (70 m Tupper Building). This area had some other highrise housing going back to the 50's and there is a huge amount of demand for housing here today.