{"id":31224,"date":"2023-12-31T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31224"},"modified":"2024-01-01T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T04:14:42","slug":"thousands-will-soon-be-moving-into-calgarys-converted-office-towers-what-are-they-going-to-do-there-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31224","title":{"rendered":"Thousands will soon be moving into Calgary&#8217;s converted office towers. What are they going to do there? | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Downtown resident Paul Fairie says the core needs more of \u201cthe boring things,\u201d like grocery stores, inexpensive restaurants and coffee shops that stay open after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/calgary-downtown-office-conversion-revitalization-1.7061792\">Thousands will soon be moving into Calgary&#8217;s converted office towers. What are they going to do there? | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With a start-up fund of $200 million \u2014 and a goal of investing $1 billion over the duration of the program \u2014 the city offered developers a sped-up approval process and,<strong><em> more importantly, $75 per square foot in incentives to convert empty office towers into residential apartment buildings.<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is 75$\/sq ft significant?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>here&#8217;s a search:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"970\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-1024x970.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-768x727.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-750x710.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-1226x1161.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43-675x639.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/office-space-cost-calagry-2024-01-01-23-12-43.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown resident Paul Fairie says the core needs more of \u201cthe boring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[366,620,140],"class_list":["post-31224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-alberta","tag-housing","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31248,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31224\/revisions\/31248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}