[ChazYEG]

Having more low and mid rises that occupy a larger area is, in general, cheaper, provides more affordable housing options, improves a wider area, provides a more human scale, gets way less resistance from NIMBYs, gets built faster... the list of advantages goes on and on.
The only ways I see high rises having an advantage over this are: 1) we have exceedingly high demand for condo/apartment that we could fill the same area we'd fill with mid rises with high rises; 2) high rise construction costs are the same or lower (due to scale) than mid rises 3) we have substantial geographic constraints (like Vancouver), or any combination of these 3. None of them apply to Edmonton, however, so I feel like we should be restricting towers to areas that already have those clustered in (where there's obvious demand)

 

[cmd uw]

JFC, do people understand what 'Conceptual' means. Good god that rendering Ian posted was used at Council/Public Meetings to demonstrate 'massing' and 'builtform' across the site. F*ck people.

 

[Gronk!]

JFC, do people understand what 'Conceptual' means. Good god that rendering Ian posted was used at Council/Public Meetings to demonstrate 'massing' and 'builtform' across the site. F*ck people.

No offense but this Michener Park concept is simply not acceptable.
But hey, good enough for lil ol' Edmonton.

 

[an_edmontonian]

People need not get so hung up on a conceptual render. This is what is actually going up there:

I drive by it every day and the finishing materials are quite nice, better than much of what you see going up in more core areas. I would say its very good for 5km south of downtown.

The commercial strip mall development is another matter...

 

[an_edmontonian]

Although doing some further digging on the website, this appears to be the 1A site development:

Pretty bleh.

 

[an_edmontonian]

From the Avison Young website, birds eye view of progress taken some time in the last month of so.

Site 1C is the two multi story UC in the back ground. Probably the best quality for the project.

Site 1A is the future multi story I showed in post #380. Again pretty bleh.

Site 1B is the commercial development. Very suburban in feel and ultimately a disappointment for a 60 year old neighbourhood. But it will be good to have more commercial options within walking distance. Also a very nice playground and multi use path which makes accessing Whitemud Creek much easier from the east.