The Official PEI Project Thread - Page 92

josh_cat_eyes · #**1821** Posted **Oct 6, 2018, 7:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by billy1

Sears building sold and will be redeveloped into retail centre.

"A local developer is planning to purchase the Sears property in Charlottetown and convert it into a "power centre" featuring retail stores.

"We've got a contractual agreement with the trustee to purchase the building," said Tim Banks, CEO of APM Group.

Also included are about six hectares of land, Banks said."

"By subdividing the 109,000-square-foot Sears building and developing the accompanying land, Banks said there could be room for at least 10 stores."

Source; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-sears-tim-banks-apm-1.4850812

Is there even enough stores not currently in the market or that the market could support a second location of to fill this?

billy1 · #**1822** Posted **Oct 9, 2018, 4:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by braymondg

Stratford News

Re: Pan American Properties Application to build a 5 storey, 79 unit condo

Zoning Bylaw Amendment – Pan American Properties Inc.

Second reading and adoption of a zoning bylaw amendment, as modified by Council, to rezone a portion of parcel number 327973 from the Waterfront Mixed Use Zone (WMU) to the Waterfront Residential Zone (WR), and to rezone a portion from the Waterfront Public Space Zone (WPS) to the Waterfront Residential Zone (WR) was approved. This follows 1st reading which took place at a special Town Council Meeting held on February 28, 2018. Pan American Properties Inc. now have the ability to apply for a permit to construct their proposed apartment building.

Subdivision Lot – Michael Thomas Way

"Council granted preliminary subdivision approval to an application (SD016-2017) from Pan American Properties to subdivide 1 lot (Lot E, approx. 1.21 acres) from parcel number 327973 (approx. 7.6 acres) located on the Southport Motel property along the extension of Michael Thomas Way".

This a start!

Construction has started on this in Stratford. The newest render is shown below.

billy1 · #**1823** Posted **Oct 9, 2018, 4:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by braymondg

Chesapeake Charlottetown
is a new seniors active living suites being built on Malpeque Rd. Here are some photos showing its progress.

This building should be completed in a few months time and it is nearly sold out. Sign out front says only 1 unit left out of 64.

braymondg · #**1824** Posted **Oct 11, 2018, 10:07 PM**

National Building Code update coming for Charlottetown.

.....there are about 1,000 apartment units to be approved.

https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local...-update-coming-for-charlottetown-248696/

TGK · #**1825** Posted **Oct 12, 2018, 11:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by braymondg

National Building Code update coming for Charlottetown.

.....there are about 1,000 apartment units to be approved.

https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local...-update-coming-for-charlottetown-248696/

Five story lightweight construction...terrifying. The softwood lobbyists won that battle.

braymondg · #**1826** Posted **Oct 12, 2018, 11:42 PM**

Building Proposal - Grafton St.

This proposal is before city council for a few variances. Located in the lot beside the Pilot House, the building will house businesses and upper floor(s) apartments.

braymondg · #**1827** Posted **Oct 12, 2018, 11:51 PM**

Mt Edward Rd Proposed Development

This proposal for a townhouse and tri-apartment development located on Mt Edward Rd on the corner lot bordered on the south by the Confederation Trail and Mt Edward Rd, where the old Charlottetown public gardens were located.
This proposal is before city council and there should not be too much to stall this development.

braymondg · #**1828** Posted **Oct 13, 2018, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by TGK

Five story lightweight construction...terrifying. The softwood lobbyists won that battle.

Once the 2015 Code is passed at the city level, you will see an explosion of rental units going up. Developers are chewing at the bit to get started. As far as wooden construction is concerned, not these ones that have been approved:

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MonctonRad · #**1829** Posted **Oct 13, 2018, 1:16 AM**

Being a native Charlottetonian, I have spent the majority of my adult life getting used to the fact that not much of anything ever happened in the city. To see the explosion of development occurring in the city over the last 5-10 years however is amazing. Things seem to be accelerating too!

MTLskyline · #**1830** Posted **Oct 13, 2018, 2:32 AM**

Is there anything like a green belt in Charlottetown to curb sprawl?

KnoxfordGuy · #**1831** Posted **Oct 13, 2018, 2:04 PM**

Yeah. Prince Edward Island lmao

billy1 · #**1832** Posted **Oct 13, 2018, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

Yeah. Prince Edward Island lmao

If you can't provide constructive comments there is no sense in commenting at all.

josh_cat_eyes · #**1833** Posted **Oct 14, 2018, 3:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by billy1

If you can't provide constructive comments there is no sense in commenting at all.

He makes a good point tho. The water is essentially the only thing that holds development back in PEI.

KnoxfordGuy · #**1834** Posted **Oct 14, 2018, 2:21 PM**

Correct. As with most (if not all) of Atlantic Canadas cities. We have no sort of green belts.

q12 · #**1835** Posted **Oct 14, 2018, 3:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

Correct. As with most (if not all) of Atlantic Canadas cities. We have no sort of green belts.

Halifax approved a Green Network Plan two months ago.

https://www.halifax.ca/about-halifax/reg...mmunity-plans/halifax-green-network-plan

https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default/fil...HGNP-Final%20Report_20180726_updated.pdf

KnoxfordGuy · #**1836** Posted **Oct 14, 2018, 4:05 PM**

Interesting.

JHikka · #**1837** Posted **Oct 14, 2018, 4:44 PM**

That Halifax plan seems more like holding onto ecology corridors and less like an effective urban greenbelt.

Greenbelts don't really do much to curtail sprawl development. In places like Toronto and Ottawa the greenbelts simply made suburban sprawl jump over it and occur even further out from the urban centre, thereby making things like infrastructure and transportation more expensive as they're going further for the same number of people. Kanata is the perfect example of this, Barrhaven being another.

PEI's size works in its favour if we're discussing curtailing suburban sprawl in Charlottetown. Cities that are located on water have fewer options for expansion simply due to how the geography works. Halifax and Saint John cannot sprawl southward simply because of water, so the sprawl had to be directed elsewhere. Charlottetown has a similar issue/upside.

Moncton, on the other hand, can essentially sprawl in four different directions for eternity, although Riverview is limited by river crossings.

From a cursory glance it looks to me like Charlottetown can only sprawl northwards and westwards long-term. Eastward sprawl into Stratford is possible but is limited by having to cross a river. This is similar to Kingston's eastern sprawl which is now being added to thanks to additional planned river crossings.

For me, sprawl can only go on for as far as reasonable commute times can handle. As long as people can live somewhere and get to work within 30/45 minutes they'll gladly do it. Once that sprawl-commute point is reached where it no longer makes feasible sense from a time to commute standpoint then the urban core will start to densify. Development always happens outwards until it is no longer feasible, and then it must go upwards. Saint John has essentially reached that point and Halifax soon will.

Sasha · #**1838** Posted **Oct 15, 2018, 1:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by braymondg

Building Proposal - Grafton St.

This proposal is before city council for a few variances. Located in the lot beside the Pilot House, the building will house businesses and upper floor(s) apartments.

Would it be better to build something in a Victorian or Romanesque style, or something with a "contemporary Victorian" (or Modern Victorian) style. Those are very modern buildings with design cues taken from the Victorian style. I think its a brilliant architecture style for future PEI homes and other buildings.

Ire Narissis · #**1839** Posted **Oct 15, 2018, 2:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by JHikka

Development always happens outwards until it is no longer feasible, and then it must go upwards. Saint John has essentially reached that point and Halifax soon will.

Yeah, Saint John is just now at the point where there is a genuine market for high-end residential units in the dense buildings uptown, many of which have been mostly vacant for years and years. We aren't seeing new high-rise construction or anything, but residential re-purposing and densification of existing heritage buildings. I'm not sure how the building stock is in Charlottetown offhand, but could definitely see the same kind of thing happening there.

braymondg · #**1840** Posted **Oct 19, 2018, 12:57 AM**

I wonder what this is all about! This appeared on the city permit page.

Lot Subdivision

2018-021 7-Aug-18, 11-Oct 12-Oct, Capital Drive (Adjacent Upton
Parklands) PID 1046259 Subdivision of parcel, RA-08, Government of
PEI (T.I.E.), 1-Nov-18.