Canadian City Proposals II

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Denscity

80 storey and 72 storey residential towers approved for Lougheed area of Burnaby BC. Taller one will be 259 metres I believe making it the tallest tower west of Toronto.

Insanity (but in a good way). Would any one of us have dreamed they would be building 80 storey buildings in the suburbs, back in the early days of SSP?

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Insanity (but in a good way). Would any one of us have dreamed they would be building 80 storey buildings in the suburbs, back in the early days of SSP?

Definitely not me.
And in Vancouver even less so but forgetting that the view comes and height restrictions are only for Vancouver proper.
I can see Surrey doing this as well.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is that a new build? JFC!

[WhipperSnapper]

It's a homeless shelter not that it should matter. I think the podium of the three tower development looks even worse!

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is that a new build? JFC!

I thought it looked like a Sandman Hotel.



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[Coldrsx]

A nice suburban infill in a former mall parking.


https://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...partments-2025

[kool maudit]

Some grim proposals on this page.

Kitchener-Waterloo builds the worst shit in the Western world.

[WhipperSnapper]

Indeed insanity. However, I disagree that it's a badge of honour. Those early 30 storey point towers with 5 units per floor and lush landscaping provided higher quality suburban high rise living than the spandreled, giant scaled, mixed use Gilmore Place. This is just more of that.

Reminds me of the tightly packed narrow lot homes in the 905 which function exactly the same as American counterparts with 1/4 acre wide lot ranches. The forum like to view the American counterpart as sprawlier. However, one has open green space creating opportunities while the other is paved over farmland.

Of course, we want our cities to be among the most populous in the world as if the most populous cities in the world are also the greatest. With that, it takes a Chinese level commitmernt to development.

[Maldive]

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[yaletown_fella]

The podium in the calgary proposal looks great. Nice architectural details and parkette/plaza space for breathing room.

Interesting to see Manulife REIT propose a midtown highrise around a meter taller than Manulife Centre

[J.OT13]

Proposal at 1047 Richmond in Ottawa, across the street from a new O-Train station set to open in 2027 (new new, not Transitway conversion).

36 and 38 floors, first tower will be 423 units with nearly 500 square meters of retail.











It replaces a glassier, classier design that may have fallen victim to high interest rates, or just standard Ottawafication.



https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...=249979&page=7

[Hawrylyshyn]

I think this design was stolen from Waterloo....

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Who thought this was a good plan for a development ALONG A MAJOR ROAD WITH FUTURE LRT

[cranes]

6 Regina St N and 24, 28, 34 Erb St E Waterloo Update

https://www.therecord.com/news/water...cd6ea44ac.html
Waterloo condo tower will be taller, slimmer, with more bedrooms but no office floor. A provincial tribunal has approved a 25-storey downtown tower after the developer reached a deal with city hall to revise the design. Oct. 2, 2024

The City of Waterloo and developer Paul Leveck have resolved a planning dispute by revising the height, bulk, and design of a condo tower proposed for the downtown. Leveck now plans to erect a tower that’s taller, more slender, and has more family-sized apartments. It has been approved at 25 storeys with 289 apartments, up from 18 storeys with 218 apartments. Office space that was intended to occupy the fourth floor has been removed. The approved building at Regina Street North and Erb Street East contains 42 family-sized apartments with two or three bedrooms, up from 27. Balconies have been redesigned to look nicer by city design standards. Extra amenity space has been added for indoor use by residents. Unchanged is 500 square metres of ground-floor commercial space. Leveck asked a provincial tribunal to approve the tower after he proposed it in 2022 and city hall took too long to decide. The Ontario Land Tribunal approved it at a hearing Tuesday after a negotiated settlement was reached.
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Leveck and his development partners previously developed the Blackstone condominiums in Waterloo, the Station Park towers in central Kitchener, and the Hush townhomes in east Kitchener.

Revised design of the 25-storey residential tower approved at Regina and Erb streets in Waterloo. Ontario Land Tribunal


Site in September 2023 of an approved 25-storey tower at Regina Street North and Erb Street East in Waterloo. Google Maps


The original tower as proposed at 18 storeys. VanLegend Regina LP




https://www.therecord.com/news/water...6b8a252f5.html
Waterloo developer plans ‘experiment’ with three-bedroom condos in downtown tower. Developers typically find it harder to sell family-sized apartments, but Paul Leveck feels the market is changing. Oct. 4, 2024

The podium of a 25-storey tower approved at Regina and Erb streets in Waterloo. VanLegend Regina LP photo


This 25-storey tower approved at Regina and Erb streets in Waterloo is to include 42 units with two or three bedrooms. VanLegend Regina LP photo

[kwoldtimer]

Fabulous, by Waterloo standards ...

[Coldrsx]

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[O-tacular]

I knew this proposal was floating around for a long time but crazy it's been 8 years just to get to planning approval. Curious, does it still include the additional train station? That was a point of contention with the city iirc as the cost estimates were unrealistic.

Looks like it will be replacing all of the office and retail buildings on Fisher Street. Wonder if these towers will include any offices? Certainly no warehouse space it seems. It's a significant chunk including a Canada Post depot.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ca...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

Build out on this has gotta be multiple decades.

[WhipperSnapper]

Looks like an Ontario transit oriented community with extreme built forms (of note the ten storey podiums) for packing people in a suburban wasteland beside a transit line. Few streets. Few future consideration to connect to the surrounding properties. Giant blocks of housing with some ground tuck shops.

The height and population gurus will love this.

[logan5]

“Those future residences will have . . . the luxury of having all the services you see along Macleod Trail immediately outside their doorstep,” he said.

Lee said the developer is projecting a 25-year build-out, with full occupancy not anticipated until 2050. With more than 6,200 residential units proposed, Midtown Station would most likely house more than 10,000 residents, depending on the configuration of units. Ten per cent of the units would be rented at below-market rates.

“This is about creating a sense of place and a new community for people who want to live and not depend on having a car,” Lee said.

You gotta be kidding.

The "East Village" has really stalled in recent years, and that's an urban renewal project that is right downtown, walking distance to lots of amenities, so I don't know how a large project like that could possibly work in the middle of nowhere. Plus you're competing with a huge mall that will suck all the retail life out of the planned high street.

The closest Vancouver comparable is Brentwood, which is located at Willingdon and Lougheed, with lots of industrial, but Brentwood Mall itself is being redeveloped, along with the entire area (2 sq km's), so it won't be so isolating for residents. And home buyers here are far more willing to buy into a tower neighbourhood like this. Not so much in Calgary, as we see with the East Village.

Development of this area in Calgary should start with the Chinook Mall parking lots, then work your way out from there. The City of Calgary should have a larger master plan for this area. This project looks like a huge mistake.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by logan5

You gotta be kidding.

The "East Village" has really stalled in recent years, and that's an urban renewal project that is right downtown, walking distance to lots of amenities, so I don't know how a large project like that could possibly work in the middle of nowhere. Plus you're competing with a huge mall that will suck all the retail life out of the planned high street.

The closest Vancouver comparable is Brentwood, which is located at Willingdon and Lougheed, with lots of industrial, but Brentwood Mall itself is being redeveloped, along with the entire area (2 sq km's), so it won't be so isolating for residents. And home buyers here are far more willing to buy into a tower neighbourhood like this. Not so much in Calgary, as we see with the East Village.

Development of this area in Calgary should start with the Chinook Mall parking lots, then work your way out from there. The City of Calgary should have a larger master plan for this area. This project looks like a huge mistake.

East Village has really stalled. Some people claim it's because of the Drop In Centre but the last major tower to be built there was right across the street from it, whereas the undeveloped lots are further away in the centre. There are a lot of homeless people around Chinook Centre too. I went to pick up an item at a grocery store across from the lrt station and there was a group of homeless people hanging in front of the Circle K smoking crack. As we were leaving we passed by a closed garden centre and it looked like skidrow with all of the strung out junkies passed out against the wall.

As far as redeveloping the area there actually is a development plan for the area going from the train to the mall. Right now it's all big box and stripmall stores. It's become a rough area recently though. Cadillac Fairview has a now dormant plan to develop remaining surface parking into condo towers but that has been on hold for about a decade it seems. That would be in direct competition to these plans south of Macleod. Without the added train station that area won't support a car free lifestyle as Macleod Trail is so hostile to pedestrians. Across the street Kingsland is beginning to see 5 story condos be built right behind the CO-OP gas station so I guess the evolution is already starting.

[yaletown_fella]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Looks like an Ontario transit oriented community with extreme built forms (of note the ten storey podiums) for packing people in a suburban wasteland beside a transit line. Few streets. Few future consideration to connect to the surrounding properties. Giant blocks of housing with some ground tuck shops.

The height and population gurus will love this.

The arterials have grassy medians too. Reminds me of MCC/Square One area