There are, right now, seven cranes putting up condo towers and the National Music Centre in East Village. I can see this out my Herald City Hall bureau office window.
More cranes will come as East Village fills out. Many will flock to 3rd Street, currently home to the butt end of City Hall, Bow Valley College and a whole lotta parking.
Here’s a rough sketch of what’s the come:
I have no clue why there’s a Town of Black Diamond marker on this Google Map
Cecil Hotel: likely sold for development, perhaps demolished except for its facade. When: City hasn’t yet decided on a timeline, or what do do.
YWCA: Will redevelop its full block. When: development partner announced this fall
Police union block: RioCan, a major retail developer, to build grocery/retail/office complex. 300,000 square feet. Loblaws had a letter of intent for supermarket. When: Will apply for development permit this fall. Had earlier planned to begin construction in spring 2014.
Bow Valley South Campus Opened 2013, replacing an old courthouse and a parkade. The start of this street’s decade of rejuvenation. Across 3rd Street from the south campus sits a city-owned staff parkade, also ripe for redevelopment. But it’s unclear when that may happen.
New central library: Straddling the train tracks, 236,000 square feet of readin’ & learnin’ and gatherin’, to cost $245 million. No more plans for a +15 bridge across the street to City Hall. When: Opens 2018. Design by Norwegian architects Snohetta released in September
Parkade: At 3rd Street’s terminus, where a surface parking lot currently sits, Calgary Parking Authority will erect its first new parkade since the 1990s, to serve the new library and the National Music Centre, neither of which will have parkades. When: in time for the central library’s opening
