[SMayo]

More than 2 stories for the podium/connector of the towers is fine depending on what they do with it and how it’s shaped.

 

[Barnaby]

They should be able to build as high as they deem economical.

 

[itom987]

The podium size is fine.

 

[cmd uw]

FYI 'Casia' will likely not be developing this.

And that's just a massing based on the 'maximum development rights' as per the respective MU zone.

 

[Gus Haynes]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/local-business-owner-infrastructure-proposal-1.7353244

Onishenko said this is something that the development company and the city will keep in mind, although the current plan isn't set in stone just yet.

"The design that was shown is not necessarily the intention. This is showing what the max development could be," he said.

 

[CplKlinger]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/local-business-owner-infrastructure-proposal-1.7353244

Your apartment building is only a high rise if it comes from the Toronto region of Canada. Otherwise, it's just a vertical gated community.

 

[Gus Haynes]

Kind of a baffling comment. Why does he think that apartment-dwellers will be any less inclined to leave their homes than someone living in a detached single family home?

I understand concerns about a massing proposal appearing to look "out of place" with the existing street, but I do not understand why a business would turn their nose up from an injection of several hundred new potential customers steps from your door...

 

[Kosy123]

Yeah, developments like these are probably what might properly turn 124 St into another Whyte Ave, especially with a Valley Line stop nearby. More people = more customers, regardless of "neighbourhood character" concerns.

 

[_urbanite]

"Vertical gated communities" is the best thing I've read this week lol

So this guy thinks that what's there right now maintains the "character of the area" and is better for businesses than 2, 25 & 27 storey towers full of people...

I needed a good laugh this morning

 

[CplKlinger]

So this guy thinks that what's there right now maintains the "character of the area" and is better for businesses than 2, 25 & 27 storey towers full of people...

I needed a good laugh this morning

I listened to Edmonton AM this morning (best radio show in town imo), and I think the guy actually said that anything above 5 storeys is like a vertical gated community because "it loses the ground integration".

 

[SMayo]

I think what adds to the character of the neighbourhood is the carousel of stores opening and closing because there aren't enough residents in the area to support them all so we should keep units to a minimum

 

[Barnaby]

Kind of a baffling comment. Why does he think that apartment-dwellers will be any less inclined to leave their homes than someone living in a detached single family home?

Funny enough, having an underground parkade to navigate has meant that my car only leaves it's stall once a day during the week. If I want to get food somewhere, I just walk along the street now. I haven't driven anywhere for exclusively food sinced I moved into a "gated community".

I've been to almost every restaurant DT, I've bought more groceries than ever before, I will walk to the local Shoppers for toiletries, etc. I've been to 3 movies this year at ECC, none elsewhere.

He's just wrong.

 

[thommyjo]

i went to their website and sent a contact form in that was polite and respectful, but expressed a deep care for 124th and a desire to see proposals like this move forward.

I sure hope this guy doesn’t try to stir up opposition.

 

[Gus Haynes]

He's a nice guy and I like his shop a lot, but on this issue, he's delusional.

 

[Didama]

Replacing empty buildings and a daycare with hundreds of new residents will change the feel of the area? Yes it will, and thank goodness for that. Very bizarre comment from this guy.