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Old Posted Feb 26, 2021, 4:32 AM
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Infill Construction Sites in Your City or Town

Figured since the construction thread is so busy and with prob around 95%+ of posts being high-rises, we might as well have a thread for infill construction. I know every city in the country has a lot of it underway, so I figured I'll start it off with Calgary...


Elva



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The Fifth



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Annex



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Courtyard 33



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General Block


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Nimmons Court



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annnd others but that's enough for now...
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Most of those (looking quite good) are pretty large midrises. I think of infill as something smaller, usually built right up to the adjacent property lines, and appearing as part of a continuous streetscape, or in a row of SFH.
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Infills are both low and mid-rises. I don't think there's any accepted rule saying it has to be just SFH, townhouses, and row houses. If that was the case, this thread would overload on Calgary projects alone let alone the rest of the country.
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2021, 6:58 AM
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Here are examples I would consider actual infill, on Main St Vancouver, because it filled gaps and forms part of the existing streetscape. Infill is determined more by context, than by the development type itself.

2009: https://goo.gl/maps/e8JnLPg9hgwKwRTV9
2020: https://goo.gl/maps/ZyMKBfjNvozkzA7JA

But if you turn the camera around to look at the other side of the street, I wouldn't consider that infill, but just standard midrise development, because it was all new development and not filling in any gaps.

I would just include the words "Infill & Midrise Construction" in the title to make it more accurate.

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Nice Calgary projects. The General Block is exceptionally nice... not the most conventional form so I realize not everyone will love it, but I think it would add a lot to its surroundings.
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Nice Calgary projects. The General Block is exceptionally nice... not the most conventional form so I realize not everyone will love it, but I think it would add a lot to its surroundings.
Everyone on SRC Calgary is in love with it, and likely the vast majority of people in general. Having seen it in person, it is as stunning as it looks in pics, or moreso. The retail uses are exceptional as well, local ice cream shop, local donut and coffee shop, and local pizza place, with office on the 2nd floor, right on a popular park in Bridgeland. Couldn't be better.
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^ It's very distinctive and also very tasteful. It definitely stands out.
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My faves for St. John's...

1. RBC expansion:



2. Bluedrop:



(That green building on the left is part of the office too lol)

3. Delgado's Lane (closed, covered, and added to building):



4. All the SFD (sigh) built in the middle of rowhouse blocks, formerly part of people's backyards:



Houses on the right are in the middle of this block:



5. All the well-done infill rowhouses...



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Cool idea for a thread Chad but I wouldn't consider any if your examples in the opening post to be infill.
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Yeah infill is more like when you knock down a rowhouse and replace it with a fourplex; or replace a one storey CRU with a taller building. I've seen a few good examples in Toronto but mostly bad ones, unfortunately as I'm discovering it's impossible to get photos while driving and when I'm with a friend she thinks taking photos of construction projects a waste of time ha.
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Alright... well maybe someone can get a mod to change the thread title to "Low-rise Construction Site in Your City or Town"?
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Yeah infill is more like when you knock down a rowhouse and replace it with a fourplex; or replace a one storey CRU with a taller building.
Or strange sized lots, reclaimed land from property subdivisions, or small lots used for purposes previously not economically viable to be developed.

Chad let's keep it as infil, it's a fun topic. The low rise developments already fall under a few other threads.

Courtyard 33 looks really nice btw.
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