With design set to continue on Calgary's Green Line LRT between Victoria Park and Shepard, there remains uncertainty around how the line will extend through the downtown core.
WATCH: A trio of organizations that represent businesses and real estate companies in Calgary's downtown core have penned a letter to the province and the city seeking a committee on the Green Line 's downtown alignment. Adam MacVicar reports.project, uncertainty around the downtown alignment has a trio of real estate and business organizations in Calgary’s core seeking a seat at the table.
In an interview with Global News, CDA executive director Mark Garner said the Green Line is vital for transportation to the downtown core with Calgary’s booming population.“If there is considerations and we need to find other potential solutions that are going to be tabled, we need to be at that table to be able to understand what the potential impacts are for downtown,” Garner said.
“The extra added costs and uncertainty of tunneling is something we just knew would have cost overruns,” Dreeshen said in an interview Thursday. “We just couldn’t, as a province, be funding $1.53 billion into a project with all that uncertainty.” David Wallach with Barclay Street Real Estate agrees input from commercial real estate firms should be considered in a new alignment.
Wallach said concerns for an elevated route include the blocking of natural light for on-street retail, and disruptions from passing trains along the Plus-15 level floors in office towers.
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