The Official PEI Project Thread

[TGK]

Originally Posted by Just an Islander

Wondering if Novus Glass is moving across the street on North River Road to where Midas was.

Don’t think so. Midas spot is being rebranded to Mr Lube and Tire, according to city’s permit approvals.

[Siriusb]

APPROVED
62 Sherwood Road (PID #455642)
5-Story, 75-Unit Apartment Building -
Phase I: Foundation Arsenault Bros. Holdings (Greg Morrison)

Approved and soon to start!! Arsenault Properties is sure on the ball!! The access has been prepped for a foundation to go in.

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

APPROVED
62 Sherwood Road (PID #455642)
5-Story, 75-Unit Apartment Building -
Phase I: Foundation Arsenault Bros. Holdings (Greg Morrison)

Approved and soon to start!! Arsenault Properties is sure on the ball!! The access has been prepped for a foundation to go in.

This definately is underway as a porta-potty is now on site!!

Rendering:

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by josh_cat_eyes

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PEI needs a new city to compete with Charlottetown. I present to you, downtown Cornwall. Blue is mix use zoning. The darker the shade, the higher the density. Id envision the darkest shades to be like 10-20 stories, with the lightest shades being like minimum 3-4 storeys. On the far eastern side in green, there would be a agriculture/aquaculture college (affiliated with UPEI perhaps) Also have an affiliated aquarium which would be a good attraction for the island. A new high school campus would be on the western side of the development, while a middle school or elementary school & sports campus would be over near the aquarium. There would also be a new emergency district, with a new hospital and services for RCMP, Fire & Rescue. The major streets in red would connect to the existing street network farther north.

This is not really a practical proposal, just something I did for fun back in the winter. It is more just an exercise of a location where you could build essentially an entire new city to house all of the people that want to live in the province. An exercise on how you don't need to just build suburbia in the suburbs.

Okay hear me out... we anchor it with one 150m+ tower... thus building Atlantic Canada's first skyscraper. Take that Halifax!

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by TGK

I recall seeing a demolition permit for the bungalow a little while back, but no building permits. Weird they’re hauling so much away, you’d think that land would need to be built up. Maybe they’re bringing in material more suitable to build on?

Keep us posted.

APPROVED

25 Capital Dr
Construction of a 34-Unit Residential Dwelling
FitzGerald and Snow

The foundation is in along with a four storey elevator shaft, not surprising it's only four!

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

Good to see!

This is an old rendering but they are putting in the foundation as we speak for the first building.

[Siriusb]

7 MacKinnon Rd Proposal

This four storey on Mackinnon Rd (beside Browns Ct) was proposed and presented to Council. More to follow....

[josh_cat_eyes]

Originally Posted by Sasha

Okay hear me out... we anchor it with one 150m+ tower... thus building Atlantic Canada's first skyscraper. Take that Halifax!

Yeah I mean why not. I envision this as PEI’s third city. Cornwall is basically just a big suburb with no coherent street grid or downtown. This gives them that. Also if Charlottetown isn’t going to allow height in its downtown, why not just make a new one next to it.

[Siriusb]

1 St. Martha's Ct.

So, along with the other apartments that are currently being built on St Martha's Ct, this is going right on the corner of St. Martha and Mt Edward. It already has been approved but the developer wants to add 1 more apartment to bring it from 7 units to 8. Here's the thing, it has to go to public consultation!!
Why waste all that time on public consultation over 1 apartment, especially when it was already been approved. If there are any opponents, it'll get built anyway! Waste of time!!

[Five Four]

Huge amount of groundwork and construction vehicles at the crossroads site. Anyone know anything else?

[Siriusb]

Chesapeake Haven - Apartment #2

Ground prep is underway for a second apartment, 60 units I believe, beside the present apartment across from Moores well drilling.

[Siriusb]

Confederation Centre Reno

APPROVED

145 Richmond Street
Renovation to the former Confederation Library and Addition of Pavilion
Brighton Construction

Work is now underway! This will be good for the downtown. All we need is for more people living downtown. How about those
permits for the recent apartments for the downtown. Let's get on the ball here!

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

APPROVED

25 Capital Dr
Construction of a 34-Unit Residential Dwelling
FitzGerald and Snow

The foundation is in along with a four storey elevator shaft, not surprising it's only four!

Photo of this project.

[WhipperSnapper]

What's wrong with 4 storey and 34 units? You think 8 storeys and 68 units or 12 storeys and 102 units would be better? It's just going to add more cars to the traffic. You want more people in PEI but, fuck, it still may be saner to drive to Moncton once PEI reaching that Costco population threshold. Charlottetown is not designed for double the population and there doesn't seem to be all that much effort with suburban apartment intensification to make sprawlville any less sprawly.

That Arsenault Sherwood apartment complex is a poor location with terrible form. Everyone will drive even if Costco is built to the south. It's even zanier to say that the next door neighbour, the electric transfer station, on the fringes of the city and in an industrial business park should relocate. You're a heighter extraordinaire. Everything taller but, little insight on function or character. It's a town.

8 / 12 storeys has a higher price tag and takes twice as long to build. It's not saving space if all the parking is on the surface or underground within the building's footprint and on the surface. Decked parking costs $30,000 per space. Surface parking is a couple hundred bucks. That's how you kill affordability.

A four storey building with average sized units can provide one parking space per unit for most if not all the units in a basement so you don't end up with towers rising out of a wasteland of surface parking

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

Old Charlottetown Curling Club

News,

An Aug. 1 news release from the province says a tender for demolition is now live, with work expected to be finished by the end of 2024.  

A permit has been issued,

APPROVED

241 Euston Street
Demolition of Former Curling Club and Ice Rink Building
PEI Department of Transportation & Infrastructure

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

What's wrong with 4 storey and 34 units? You think 8 storeys and 68 units or 12 storeys and 102 units would be better? It's just going to add more cars to the traffic. You want more people in PEI but, fuck, it still may be saner to drive to Moncton once PEI reaching that Costco population threshold. Charlottetown is not designed for double the population and there doesn't seem to be all that much effort with suburban apartment intensification to make sprawlville any less sprawly.

That Arsenault Sherwood apartment complex is a poor location with terrible form. Everyone will drive even if Costco is built to the south. It's even zanier to say that the next door neighbour, the electric transfer station, on the fringes of the city and in an industrial business park should relocate. You're a heighter extraordinaire. Everything taller but, little insight on function or character. It's a town.

8 / 12 storeys has a higher price tag and takes twice as long to build. It's not saving space if all the parking is on the surface or underground within the building's footprint and on the surface. Decked parking costs $30,000 per space. Surface parking is a couple hundred bucks. That's how you kill affordability.

A four storey building with average sized units can provide one parking space per unit for most if not all the units in a basement so you don't end up with towers rising out of a wasteland of surface parking

Huh!! Sorry but there is an eight storey approved downtown, and an eight storey, with the option to go to 10 floors on University Ave., and two eight storey buildings at Capital Dr and Malpeque Rd which are presently going through a planning process, so you're a little behind the times. Charlottetown isn't the little "town" it used to be and is growing fast. Whether it's four floors or ten floors, and there are about 9 - 10,000 units planned, any amount of new housing is a plus.

[TGK]

Looks like site work is well underway for the new six-floor hotel (Home 2 Suites) going up on Capital Drive next to the Hampton Inn.

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by TGK

Looks like site work is well underway for the new six-floor hotel (Home 2 Suites) going up on Capital Drive next to the Hampton Inn.

Some renderings,

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

Some renderings,

Land excavation in progress,

[Siriusb]

Lots of things happening in north Charlottetown.

- the land prep is taking place for the new six-floor hotel on Capital Dr.
- The new building on the corner of Lwr Malpeque Rd and Capital Dr is closed in with the windows installed.
- The Empire five-story apartments by Capital Honda is moving along.
- The land off the bypass behind the Storage Inn is nearly cleared. Empire is making room for apartments
- The walls are going up on the 35 unit across from U-haul on Capital Dr.
- The six-floor senior/affordable units on Malpeque Rd, the first buildings foundation is in place.
- The foundation for the 75 unit five-story Arsenault apartments on Sherwood Rd were installed this week.
- Hidden Valley is progressing with new units being started weekly.
- Chesapeake Haven #2 5 floor across from Moores well drilling on the Malpeque Rd. The land is prepped for the foundation.

Anyone one hear of anything else?