Cohousing-L Mailing List: "down & dirty" guesstimates

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Maggie Dutton <Maggie [at] fairy-godmother.com>
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Hi Cohousing Support Group:-) 
Can anyone help with a budget? 

[I have a (see above) ] PDF file with a listing sheet for an older
warehouse building in Calgary that our group is hoping to obtain funding
to retrofit into mixed use and affordable housing.  My own background is
in commercial/retail property management (and housing program management)
but I don't feel able to come up with even a very "down and dirty"
guesstimate of what it would take to transform something like this.  It
just feels right.  I can envision about 40 transitional units of various
sizes being created in the upper two floors with mixed uses on the main
level.  The outside measurements of the building are 200 feet x 60 feet.  
There is another piece of property adjacent to it that the railway still
owns which we see as the co-housing project site.  The Listing Real Estate
Agent says that an environmental assessment shows that the site is clean.  
A similar zoning change in the area was apparently not difficult because
the group had a long relationship with the community.  Linking with this
group would help to ease our way.

I would be so grateful if anyone had the time or interest to comment on our
draft proposal (which is due Nov 8th) please let me know privately and I
will forward it tomorrow.  Attached is a brief overview.  Could anyone give
a ballpark (in Canadian funds) square footage price for re-constructing such
a project?  
  
Warmest Regards
Maggie Dutton
Secretary of the Board H.O.M.E.S.
(Housing Ourselves Made Easy Society)
Addressing the need for affordable housing in Calgary.
Sponsored by: Calgary Inter-Faith Community Action Association
<http://www.calgary-interfaith.ab.ca/>  and Fairy-godmother.com
<http://www.fairy-godmother.com/> 

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