Glenco
Senior Member
I remember how excited people were when it was built. Oh dear.
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Gronk!
Senior Member
Our future Mayor of Edmonton outlines plans for Exhibition Lands, including Coliseum demolition, replacement of the Coliseum LRT station, and an enlarged Borden Park.
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Ashley Salvador on Instagram: "I wanted to take a moment to provide a brief update on Exhibition Lands, and some of the work underway to advance this transformative project. 🔸 $55M for Coliseum demolition and site prep has been secured from GOA 🔸
237 likes, 23 comments - ashleyasalvador on August 27, 2025: "I wanted to take a moment to provide a brief update on Exhibition Lands, and some of the work underway to advance this transformative project. 🔸 $55M for Coliseum demolition and site prep has been secured from GOA 🔸 $35M of city...
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kcantor
Senior Member
Our future Mayor of Edmonton?
Based on campaigning for a development plan that received third reading from Council half a year before she was even elected to council and hasn’t meaningfully progressed anywhere since???
Or campaigning on the city being successfully blackmailed by the Province into spending tens of millions of borrowed dollars where they don’t really need to be spent?
Or on the complete lack of imagination responsible for not being able to successfully repurpose almost 500,000 sf of clear span high ceiling space?
Or on spending tens of millions of dollars based on the above to create yet more vacant land as if the city has any shortage of vacant land…
Based on campaigning for a development plan that received third reading from Council half a year before she was even elected to council and hasn’t meaningfully progressed anywhere since???
Or campaigning on the city being successfully blackmailed by the Province into spending tens of millions of borrowed dollars where they don’t really need to be spent?
Or on the complete lack of imagination responsible for not being able to successfully repurpose almost 500,000 sf of clear span high ceiling space?
Or on spending tens of millions of dollars based on the above to create yet more vacant land as if the city has any shortage of vacant land…
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MacLac
Senior Member
'Bittersweet': What comes after the fall of Edmonton's Coliseum?
With funding secured, Edmonton's iconic Coliseum arena where the legend of the Edmonton Oilers was cemented will come down.
edmontonjournal.com
"In the area’s planning framework are calls for two new stations on the north and south ends of the Exhibition Lands. The north location could replace Coliseum station and would be positioned one road north on 119 Avenue, while the south location is planned for 115 Avenue."
thefreezebreeze
New Member
They should really be working on that 115th ave station asap since lots are already being developed nearby. Once it's done and the Coliseum comes down then they can build the 119th ave one.'Bittersweet': What comes after the fall of Edmonton's Coliseum?
With funding secured, Edmonton's iconic Coliseum arena where the legend of the Edmonton Oilers was cemented will come down.
"In the area’s planning framework are calls for two new stations on the north and south ends of the Exhibition Lands. The north location could replace Coliseum station and would be positioned one road north on 119 Avenue, while the south location is planned for 115 Avenue."
Avenuer
Senior Member
If repurposing the Coliseum was market-viable, it would've happened already. In almost (every) situation, it's cheaper to demolish and build something new.
Retrofitting a purpose-built 1970s-era hockey arena for uses other than hockey is obviously very difficult and prohibitively expensive - next.
David A
Senior Member
It would be good if some of the remaining provincial money could be used to develop/redevelop the LRT stations here. It is infrastructure and relates to redeveloping the area, so I feel fits with the spirit of this funding.
kcantor
Senior Member
You mean market viable city initiatives like an event center or district energy or convention centres or LRT or a downtown park??? There were a number of viable repurposing options put forward and there would have been more of the city hasn’t mismanaged the process and the terms. There’s been much posted here on this in the past so it’s pretty much a dead horse but I wouldn’t be that happy campaigning on the back of a dead horse if I was one of the ones who killed it.
thefreezebreeze
New Member
iirc Ashley Salvador's video about it mentioned that since the province is funding the demolition, the funds that the city reserved for it can be used to accelerate the replacement coliseum station. So they might be on the same page as you, though I might've misunderstood her exact wording.
kcantor
Senior Member
Or maybe it could be used to assist in repurposing the old RAM after the province remediates the asbestos (which they have to do anyway prior to demolishing another heritage building in Edmonton).
MacLac
Senior Member
"A professionally balanced and proper redevelopment would have seen a re-purposing of the grandstand, room for our annual celebration of our city’s heritage, and parking for the trade-show hall." Yeah ok mister, "re-purpose" a grandstand for our annual celebration," for what reason? To use as what, who will pay? He should have led with "executive director of the Alberta Snowmobile Association," I'm still laughing at that one......
edmontonjournal.com
Chris Brookes is a life-long Edmontonian, University of Alberta graduate, former Government of Alberta staffer and is currently the executive director of the Alberta Snowmobile Association.
Opinion: Destroying Edmonton's exhibition lands does more harm than good
Ask them where KDays will be held once the land sales are completed.
edmontonjournal.com
Chris Brookes is a life-long Edmontonian, University of Alberta graduate, former Government of Alberta staffer and is currently the executive director of the Alberta Snowmobile Association.
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David A
Senior Member
I suppose the Exhibition could go back close to its original location near the baseball park. Many empty lots there that haven't been filled in decades and not much sign of much being developed there.
MacLac
Senior Member
“…..large upcoming projects…..,” presuming the Coliseum?
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
^Msybe also Holyrood
MacLac
Senior Member
Perhaps……has Regency not already demo’d phase 2 duplexes north of their pit?