[_urbanite]

A win-win.

New place for Boyle Street, OEG gets more property and an old building gets new life.

"OEG paid $5 million — the appraised value of the site, according to Boyle Street — and the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation donated an additional $10 million toward the $28.5-million total cost for the new centre"

A total of $15 million in funding, more than half the total cost, from OEG & EOCF.

 

[Avenuer]

Love this, a big win-win for sure. The wonderful Brutalist 1960 Edmonton Public School Board building gets a new life in a great looking renovation (from Hodgson Schilf Evans, no less) and Boyle Street gets a much larger, more functional space to truly make their own. On the other side, the OEG get to further consolidate their Ice District 2.0 holdings and also are contributing over half of the cost of Boyle Street's new home in the process (through the land purchase and donation).

 

[supaflyryguy]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/new-home-boyle-street-community-services-1.6285957

Fantastic news. Thread needs to be updated with this new info.

 

[Airboy]

I love the use of solar panels as a roof canopy. it allows greater use of the roof for social spaces. We should be doing that more.

 

[Kaizen]

We have two threads for one project. I cant merge the two.
Great looking and much-needed project though

 

[archited]

This site is better suited for a stand-alone project.

 

[Gronk!]

RELEASE: EOCF contributes $10 million to Boyle Street Community Services | Edmonton Oilers

Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation provides kick-start to capital campaign required to develop new facility two blocks north of current location

www.nhl.com

 

[quit]

We have two threads for one project. I cant merge the two.
Great looking and much-needed project though

Have to select the individual posts and then do a "move posts" with the new thread url - done and done.

 

[northlands]

Right on! Nice to see some of that ridiculous 50/50 money going to a good cause.

 

[kcantor]

We have two threads for one project. I cant merge the two.
Great looking and much-needed project though

the thread name on this one should reflect hsea (hodgson schilf evans architects)

 

[MacLac]

A win win win for all involved.

For sure a win for “all.” Hmmmm, I guess the current site will somehow be integrated into Phase 2 of the Ice District.

 

[northlands]

Love this, a big win-win for sure. The wonderful Brutalist 1960 Edmonton Public School Board building gets a new life in a great looking renovation (from Hodgson Schilf Evans, no less) and Boyle Street gets a much larger, more functional space to truly make their own. On the other side, the OEG get to further consolidate their Ice District 2.0 holdings and also are contributing over half of the cost of Boyle Street's new home in the process (through the land purchase and donation).

I actually never knew that was the old EPSB building. Always wondered what that space used to be. Wish I had liked paintball enough to visit when it was in that iteration.

That said, damn that pales in comparison to Calgary old Board of Education building for being a brutalist monolith

 

[David A]

Every once in a while something unexpected happens that makes total sense and checks all the boxes. This is really all round good news.

Boyle Street gets a much bigger space, which can be so much more functional and suits their needs, plus the park space and apartments.

The old school board building gets fixed up and used for something that can help people in the area more.

 

[Vacs]

Boyle Street is currently working on a bunch of great things for the community. This will be there largest but expect an announcement sometime next week on some of the smaller things they have been working on

fantastic organization!

 

[Stevey_G]