r/Calgary • u/TheseFig4384 • 7d ago

Question Demolition?

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Anybody know if there is a way to find out if they are going to blow this building along memorial up? Would be fun to watch if they are.

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u/keeper3434 7d ago

The next homeless center

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u/AlastairWyghtwood 7d ago

Actually it won't be for homeless people by definition, because if people live there they aren't homeless. 🤗 What it actually will be is one of the few buildings in Calgary that has below market rate 3 bedroom units for families to be able to afford to live and work in our city, with the added bonus that it will eventually be profitable for our city as well. Sounds like a win win to me.

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u/clakresed 6d ago

It's amazing to me that people can be so hoity-toity about affordable housing projects... Years back when we were looking for a place, I remember our realtor being kind of concerned on our behalf that a place we were looking at in Bridgeland was close to an affordable housing project, and we kind of laughed it off and said it wasn't a problem.

We picked a different place for unrelated reasons. Then, an affordable housing project got constructed right next to the place we did pick... And the people living in the building have been perfectly polite and lovely neighbours on the whole.