16th Ave Vacant land (old Brick site)

[Wrath]

The City is asking the public what they should do with it

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http://www.calgarycitynews.com/2011/02/city-requests-input-from-citizens-on.html

What do you think?

[Sentry]

Sell it to the highest bidder? Then let the owner do as they please with it.

[CapnCrunch]

The public is full of idiots. They might as well sell it and make some cash, then they can throw another Tim Hortons or Starbucks up.

[TYMSMNY]

Too busy of an intersection for anything of that sort (SB or Tims)

On a less serious note, how about a pure gold dig em' statue? Smack Smack, Sugar Smack, Give me a Smack and I'll Smack you Back.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Sentry
Sell it to the highest bidder? Then let the owner do as they please with it.

That's how rational people would do with an empty property.

Too bad you're overqualified to work for the City.

[frinkprof]

Station head/plaza for the 16th Ave. Station on the future Centre Street subway.

[TYMSMNY]

Originally posted by frinkprof
Station head/plaza for the 16th Ave. Station on the future Centre Street subway.

So basically a park for the next 10 years...

[holden]

They should build another Brick store.

[frinkprof]

Originally posted by TYMSMNY


So basically a park for the next 10 years... Not the worst thing in the world, and better than building something (that likely couldn't incorporate a station entrance) there and then having to acquire another nearby property 10 years later.

[n1zm0]

24 hour dimsum

[Xtrema]

Retarded. If they don't want to expand 16ave any more (since there's now a ring road), just sell it.

[Wrath]

I believe they are selling it.... i think they are just asking what they should allow to be developed there.

[Kennyredline]

Originally posted by n1zm0
24 hour dimsum

....because Centre St. needs another chinese food place....there's not much green space close to there, maybe the city could make a park out of it.

[nich148_9]

Just throwing this put there, but how about erecting a 50-ft. tall statue of Shelton made entirely of aged cheddar cheese?

[somerset_dude]

Heart Attack Grill.

[TorqueDog]

Originally posted by Kennyredline
....because Centre St. needs another chinese food place....there's not much green space close to there, maybe the city could make a park out of it. Yeah, that's just what we need, then some dimwit from the city will put up a 30 KM/H playground zone along Eastbound 16th Ave and Centre St. Both roads already move along at a snail's pace during rush hour. I love green-space, but I can see the city doing something like what I described and that scares me. Pass.

Sell it to a developer and put in some commercial space.

[Toma]

leave it empty... less to tear down if they widen 16th again lol

[Kennyredline]

Originally posted by TorqueDog
Yeah, that's just what we need, then some dimwit from the city will put up a 30 KM/H playground zone along Eastbound 16th Ave and Centre St. Both roads already move along at a snail's pace during rush hour. I love green-space, but I can see the city doing something like what I described and that scares me. Pass.

Sell it to a developer and put in some commercial space.
Not a playground, a park, like Tompkins Park on 17 Ave. & 8 St. SW. There's no playground zone there, and the limit is the same, so I can't imagine they'd need to put a playground zone sign up; besides, who would obey it anyway? lol

[TorqueDog]

Originally posted by Kennyredline
Not a playground, a park, like Tompkins Park on 17 Ave. & 8 St. SW. There's no playground zone there, and the limit is the same, so I can't imagine they'd need to put a playground zone sign up; besides, who would obey it anyway? lol See, you're making sense, and that's cool.



Now start thinking like someone who works for the City of Calgary... start drooling a little out the side of your mouth... yeah, okay, now begin violently bashing your head against a table until either the table is severely damaged or you're unable to recall what the first letter in the alphabet is. There, you're now on the same functional level as one of them.

[Toma]

No parks on 16th please. We already have a vagrant problem in that area, especially around the safeway.

Well, maybe just clean green space, no benches or anything.

[kenny]

They should run a street car up to 16th ave, and that can be the turn around point on a giant turntable. :)

[Toma]

Or that intersection along centre street is in dire need of turning lanes.... probably not possible... but that would be practical.

[ZenOps]

Anti aircraft missle defense site for when the US tries to invade Canada.

[Kloubek]

Originally posted by ZenOps
Anti aircraft missle defense site for when the US tries to invade Canada.

Oh God. At least put a smiley on that...

[n1zm0]

Originally posted by Kennyredline
....because Centre St. needs another chinese food place...

yeah true, but 24 hour dimsum is what makes it different, everyone loves dimsum! imagine, a drivethru as well, after the bar, 12x Shumai to go :drool:

[Tarrantula]

Why doesnt someone make a poll or something.. and if a LOT of people come up with good ideas, we could all send letters off with our "beyond" recommendation?

Who knows, we could actually get what we want!

[beyond_ban]

Rub n' tug / brothel. Save me from going all the way downtown :dunno:

[adidas]

inb4 Calgary bylaw turns down any creative ideas.

[Toma]

Originally posted by beyond_ban
Rub n' tug / brothel. Save me from going all the way downtown :dunno:

There's a place 2 doors down from there, then one across the street lol... and a few blocks up, and a few blocks east... and a blocks west....

Gees man.... why do you need ANOTHER one? you are at the epicenter of Oriental massage world.

[beyond_ban]

^ Variety is the spice of life, and i loooooovvvvvve a spicy life:poosie:

[dexlargo]

Originally posted by TorqueDog
Now start thinking like someone who works for the City of Calgary... start drooling a little out the side of your mouth... yeah, okay, now begin violently bashing your head against a table until either the table is severely damaged or you're unable to recall what the first letter in the alphabet is. There, you're now on the same functional level as one of them. That's not really fair to the City planners. What they actually do is probably more like this:

Present a proposal to council that makes sense (like frinkprof's), be rejected and told to do something totally stupid instead. So, being a good public servant you build that, then get blamed by council for building something useless instead of building the thing they wanted to build in the first place.

In the end, they do end up bashing their heads into tables to forget how much their lives suck. You've probably seen this and mistaken that headbashing for the reason why we get stupid things in the City. Common mistake.

[clem24]

It's a weird piece of land because it's too small for anything big and too big for anything small. I'd say build an Asian Supermall there and connect it to New Asia and hope that some interesting shops and restaurants actually open up in New Asia. Then make provisions for a station for the subway/train line that will run up Centre St. as already mentioned...

Oh and make sure to include and arcade and indoor go-kart track.

[Guillermo]

hrm, maybe a porn shop or a weed grow store?

[AndyL]

Those are already across the street...

howsabout a pull out for Ctransit... Take out the damn stops to the north and south of the intersection, and east... and west... consolidate em and get those busses off the right lane for the love of god...

:banghead:

[syritis]

a giant tire swing...

[SmAcKpOo]

Maybe sell it to recuperate the production cost of that video blog. Lord knows the city hired a professional company to produce it.

[SJW]

Make it a homeless shelter/gallows.

[Kennyredline]

Originally posted by TorqueDog
See, you're making sense, and that's cool.



Now start thinking like someone who works for the City of Calgary... start drooling a little out the side of your mouth... yeah, okay, now begin violently bashing your head against a table until either the table is severely damaged or you're unable to recall what the first letter in the alphabet is. There, you're now on the same functional level as one of them.
This may be true, and I've also just realised that Tomkins Park has been in Calgary since the very early 1900's, when city hall was probably more common-sense-based.

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m481/Kennyredline/na-1604-77tompkins.jpg

[somerset_dude]

Tuner / penis enhancement shop.

[Kennyredline]

Originally posted by somerset_dude
Tuner / penis enhancement shop.

....because every time you went in there, it would be because of your car......right? lol

[cancer man]

Originally posted by somerset_dude
Heart Attack Grill.

This by far is the best idea.

[Bigchuckers]

^^^^^ Ask for a Lube Job, and see what you happens :rofl: :rofl: :clap:

[Gainsbarre]

Why was the Brick built up against 16th avenue anyways? Some of the nearby buildings (such as the ATB a few blocks west) are far enough back from 16th that they didn't need to be torn down to expand the road. According to its datestone the ATB building wasn't built until 1980 -- wasn't the Brick on 16th and Centre built a few years after that? Was it for the added exposure that the building would get from being right up agianst 16th, even though they must have known that the building would need to be demolished in 20-25 years?

That being said, it certainly is a high exposure intersection (16th and centre), especially for an inner-city NW person like myself. Access would of course be a problem, as I suspect that it could only be accessable from Centre street (maybe) and that side street (1st street NE I think).

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Mini Golf.

[CHICHARITZHI]

I like to see this statue at 16 ave.

http://www.fotosearch.com/UNS018/u16132646/

[cream]

^
Lol thats epic. Better yet, have the dino extend down to ground level and make a cool overpass out of it.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by Twin_Cam_Turbo
Mini Golf.



Originally posted by CHICHARITZHI
I like to see this statue at 16 ave.

http://www.fotosearch.com/UNS018/u16132646/

Why not an Alberta-themed mini golf with a dinosaur statue?!

ZOMG then tent that shit for winter. WIN.

[CHICHARITZHI]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by flipstah
[B]




Why not an Alberta-themed mini golf with a dinosaur statue?!


I just want this city looks unique and its like a land mark in Calgary.

[Mar]

I got an idea. Driven show.

[syritis]

miniature calgary tower.

[slinkie]

Originally posted by Kloubek


Oh God. At least put a smiley on that...

lol'd.

+1 just auction it off

[ClaSick]

In N Out or a White Castle?

[Spoons]

Beyond group buy and the new Beyond.ca/Beyond CSI Headquarters? Make this shit legit.

:dunno:

[brownboi]

Originally posted by Spoons
Beyond group buy and the new Beyond.ca/Beyond CSI Headquarters? Make this shit legit.

:dunno:

+1:clap:

[CUG]

^ That would be a wicked idea. I'd throw in some capital for that, but I'm taking a corner office on the mechanical floor. Could you imagine how much porn would be watched at "work" :rofl:

[Jesus]

24 hour Chinese Buffet/Stripclub/Poker Room/Karaoke bar. Four birds with one stone.

[Kennyredline]

Originally posted by Jesus
24 hour Chinese Buffet/Stripclub/Poker Room/Karaoke bar. Four birds with one stone.
...and maybe add a Calgary Police Drug Enforcement Unit detachment to that as well, to help with the riff-raff!

[Guillermo]

Originally posted by Kennyredline

...and maybe add a Calgary Police Drug Enforcement Unit detachment to that as well, to help with the riff-raff!

yea, i was gonna suggest a police station, for that same reason! :rofl:

[cycosis]

No one has said an awesome go kart track?

[alloroc]

It could be used for the footing of a foreign engineered over priced 16th ave pedestrian overpass.