buildings
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half a mil for a one bedroom row house? no.
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Edmcowboy11
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Taken April 23, 2025
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Coprolite
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I stand corrected. I see that a grand total of 5 have sold which by the standards of this community does kind suck for sales. Hopefully actually having a show home will allow them to move something.
EtoV
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I struggle to see who these are for. If they're going for the elderly downsizers who still want a yard it almost makes sense, except that they have stairs to get into the house which makes them not very accessible
ADob
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My parents love the idea and would definitely consider them but it does seem odd that they added stairs, which basically kiboshes the accessibility they're trying to sell here.
Platinum107
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The only thing that can justify the oddly high price for me is it's killer location facing Blatchford Park. Other than that, 500k seems way too high for this kind of product
Coprolite
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It seemed as if they'd be a more forgiving set of steps than my place has or more easily ramped, but the geometry might be just wonky enough to make fitting a ramp rather challenging.
Avenuer
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Renovation of the control tower main floor space for event space - the tower itself will be Phase 2.
Coprolite
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That said, I did see ~4 people up in the control tower earlier this afternoon. Two were dressed up in white "moon suit" coveralls, and two in office clothes.
Coprolite
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Lots of earth being moved lately. The new phase NW on Alpha Blvd has become less of a pit (first two pictures). And, they're going some kind of work at the Northwest corner of Blatchford Rd and Bravo Blvd (ie the parcels recently rezoned to the "BLMR" low-medium-rise designation; 3rd picture).
Also, I just saw the photo-bombing goose in picture 1. They are abundant this year.
Also, I just saw the photo-bombing goose in picture 1. They are abundant this year.
fjordgard
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Launch Homes, who are building the 90 unit Pilot project have a few Instagram stories up right now with a walkthrough of one of their units. Really impressive how fast that project is moving along.
They say first possessions in July. It should be attractive for NAIT students. Excited to see how a purpose built rental project like this might help bring more multi-family to Blatchford.
YEG imagineer
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Today I walked a tour on our Plan 499 course in Calgary of the East Village. It pains me to say but Calgary is getting involved in development the right way. The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation is doing it right. I remember East Village 30+ years ago and it is unrecognizable today. The CRL portion has allowed CMLC to leverage public dollars to encourage private investment - new library, music hall, etc and wow. And now back at my hotel, I thought I would check out the websites of both Blatchford and CMLC. https://blatchfordedmonton.ca/ https://www.calgarymlc.ca/ No comparison. It pains me to say Calgary has crushed us in this type of development. Some might say the Quarters is a better comparison? OMG https://www.edmonton.ca/projects_plans/communities_neighbourhoods/the-quarters is even worse. In this falls election we should be pushing for a Municipal Land Corporation. We have so much potential but it has barely been realized as of yet. Along with the two above, we have Rossdale and Northlands. Gawd it kills me to say that Calgary is better in this than Edmonton and its not even close.
Avenuer
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Edmonton City Council could've easily created a MLC back in 2007 as Calgary did but they did not think it was a priority at the time, unfortunately.
northlands
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Cartmell has previously suggested an MDC, surprised he hasn't brought it up again for this election since he's supposed to be Mr Build Better. To me it is a no brainer: major commercial operations are often better off being administered through a municipal/crown corp setup vs through a bureaucracy.
David A
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Something needs to be done to focus attention on developing these areas that have really languished for decades. Council or the bureaucracy doesn't seem to have the interest or expertise to take this on.