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[Victoria Contractor]

I have never rented a self erecting crane before, but I think a hammerhead is about double the cost

[nagel]

Two floors. They're taking their time with this one.

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[Nparker]

It still seems to be moving faster than Legato!

 

ps: Don't hate on me. I LOVE the Legato project. I just want to see it progress faster is all.

Edited by Nparker, 16 May 2016 - 03:33 PM.

[nagel]

Try and get it on video when the building next door collapses into the hole.

[amor de cosmos]

what's that block next door in the rendering? it looks like it would be at the corner of blanshard & caledonia.

[Nparker]

What's that block next door in the rendering? It looks like it would be at the corner of Blanshard & Caledonia.

I just noticed that too. There's nothing currently that tall next to the Azzuro project.

 

Edit: Here's a better rendering that I think clears up the 'south end block' question - it's part of Azzurro itself:

 

Edited by Nparker, 16 May 2016 - 02:54 PM.

[RFS]

Whats with the nissan GT-R? Isn't this supposed to be affordable housing?

[Nparker]

Whats with the Nissan GT-R? Isn't this supposed to be affordable housing?

Overflow parking from the brew-pub at Hudson Walk 2. 

or

An Azzurro resident's dealer. 

[Layne French]

Whats with the nissan GT-R? Isn't this supposed to be affordable housing?

 

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Edited by Layne French, 17 May 2016 - 01:53 PM.

[2F2R]

I love this building but I cant see it from Blanshard because of all the trees ...

[Nparker]

I love this building but I cant see it from Blanshard because of all the trees ...

It will be the same for that "skyscraper" proposed for the Cook Street Village, assuming the local NIMBYs ever put away their torches and pitch forks.

[Kapten Kapsell]

This building is about 6 storeys out of the ground now...

[Nparker]

It's funny how there is a never ending litany of complaints about housing affordability in the region and yet we keep allowing undersized project like this to be built. By relaxing the parking requirements this building could easily have been 12 floors tall in this location allowing for double the number of affordable dwellings. Why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot like this?

[2F2R]

15 - 17 floors ... no what I mean

[sdwright.vic]

How about this. The city starts allowing higher buildings if the developer agree to build a couple of levels of public parking? They turn over the parking to the city and increase city parking in various areas. Then start removing on street parking in some areas.

Make it even more attractive, allow the developer to share or take the profits for x number of years before it become fully city owned and operated?

Then they could tear down some of the old crappy parkades with the same deals in place. The extra tax base would off set by the loss in parking revenue.

[amor de cosmos]

you mean sort of like this?
https://en.wikipedia...iki/Marina_City

[sdwright.vic]

Well... maybe a more attractive building.

[Bingo]

[Nparker]

Throw another 7 floors on here and call it done.

[Mike K.]

Typically we see a floor a week, but here we've seen a floor a month.