There has already been a lot of good sites placed under development that I would have picked - the two masive parking lots north of Shaw downtown, West Village finally starting, and densification of Kensington.
But there's two specific areas that I think could greatly benefit from master plan developments:
1) Bowness/Montgommery - both along Boness road, and to a more limited extent along 16th avenue there's a lot of potential. Much like Mission, Kensington or Bridgeland this is an older neighbourhood with a lot of character and unique shop that is really starting to look its age. Lining Bowness road's length with 4-6 story condos with a retail podium could result in a lot of densification, and make an already fairly walkable area very attractive to redevelopment. Bonus points are that it could tie into Bowness park and the river.
2) McMahon Stadium - our Football Stadium is almost a much in need of being redone as our Hockey Stadium. And given that they're now owned by the same group there's a huge opportunity here. There's enough land between the parking lot beside Crowchild and the existing stadium to errect both a new football stadium and new hockey stadium. Potentially in the same complex.
The existing lot could be removed and a 4-5 story underground parkade put in to serve both for game parking, LRT parking, and the other sports facilities in that complex. The stadiums could then be built atop that parkade and the current football space (possibly with a second parkade off University Drive beneath). This would also provide a golden opportunity to remove the lighted intersection with Motel Village for an overpass and paired service roads on each side of Crowchild.
3) Continuing from above would be the 16th avenue redevelopment. There's a lot of potential from Crowchild Trail to Deerfoot as others have pointed out. Motel Village is slowly improving, and hopefully that will continue east. However, this will likely stall until the North Central LRT is resolved.
Additionally, the idea of a 16th avenue LRT could actually be extended to run all the way from Valley Ridge in the far west, past COP, through a redevloped Bowness past the developments at West Campus, Stadium Shopping Center and Foothills Hospital, and finally the redeveloped Stadiums itself (which lets be honest could use two stations in the area) then tie into the length of a 16th Avenue redevelopment as a streetcar or subway.
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Originally Posted by Full Mountain
I truly hope that they decide to go underground to at least 24th possibly as far as McKnight (given that you'd have to trench and elevate from 30th to McKnight at minimum).
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Hopefully more transit options will increase usage, but Center Street simply by its nature will always have a lot of car traffic, so I would think this to be essentially a necessity.
I was stunned when I first saw the proposals even suggesting that it go aboveground at all, let alone before 24th Avenue. Traffic definitely decreases the farther north you get (fairly quiet after McKnight honestly), but around 16 the delay on Center would make it impossible to move, let alone the implications of trains blocking 16th for preiods of time.
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Originally Posted by MasterG
I would love to see a large downtown movie-theatre complex built First South. Like a real big-city one you described. Chinook doesn't have to be the centre of the world for movies night. Movie theatres would add a huge bump in activity as they can attract large crowds at odd times in the evening.
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Totally agree there should be downtown theater(s) again. The East Village I'm honestly surprised doesn't include one.
Related question - does anyone know why they shut down the old theaters in Banker's Hall in the late 90s?
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