kcantor
Senior Member
Not happening unless IanO says so (without revealing a source) or posts a picture.
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Vijay19
New Member
Definitely the right place! Also did you know they planted a new tree on the southeast corner of the mall?
Dubas
Active Member
If your life is so exciting that these mundane updates don’t interest you, spend your time elsewhere. Sheesh. Get a freaking life man.
buildings
Active Member
perhaps a new thread in the Urban Life sub called Retail Developments would be welcomed
johnnyboy
Active Member
Who would've thought we'd get another update on Silly Forum Drama this year, especially as we enter the season of cheer and goodwill!? 
Kosy123
Senior Member
Sartoria Amir seems to be relocating to a larger location in ECC West from their original location in ECC East.
IanO
Superstar
A reminder of what could have been...
MacLac
Senior Member
Yup! I distinctly remember seeing this exact picture in the EDM Journal - evening edition - when they delivered the newspaper in the afternoons, around 1084-85'ish? My head nearly exploded by how excited I was as a 11 yr old wee lad....
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BrettB
Active Member
We're about the same age, but I can remember being disappointed at the old Eaton's building being torn down. As much as the Tegler building, I feel the city lost something a piece of its history there.
David A
Senior Member
I remember thinking at the time it was progress and exciting, but after 40 or so years the excitement wore off. It would have been nice if those 40 storey towers went ahead, but as I recall even then many were skeptical that they were really just being used to entice to city to approve the mall and the developer wasn't very serious about them. Well, soon after the mall was approved, they were dropped.
While I didn't love the building as much as the Tegler, the old Eatons was a very nice downtown department store, the old style, the one that replaced it seemed kind of cold and more sterile even while it still was an Eatons.
The mall had a very glitzy 80's suburban feel to it when it first opened, but it did have a fairly nice selection of stores so I think for some years it actually was a boost to downtown. Those were the years when you could shop downtown and have a selection of stores almost as good as West Ed and perhaps better than Southgate. Hard to imagine now.
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
Unfortunately now we are in an area that's I'm assuming all of us are, well what now?
We had a decent official proposal but never happened. Then recently there was the Photoshop proposal on post #1927 which I would gladly see in a heartbeat. Makes me sad to see this section of our downtown just sits with no direction as far as I can tell.
We had a decent official proposal but never happened. Then recently there was the Photoshop proposal on post #1927 which I would gladly see in a heartbeat. Makes me sad to see this section of our downtown just sits with no direction as far as I can tell.
David A
Senior Member
Yes, there are some good and interesting ideas here but unfortunately I suppose we are in a holding pattern until a new owner takes over and decides what to do.
Yeggy
Active Member
It was never going to be that. It was a bait and switch from the start.
Offworld
Active Member
I was in the Bell Tower lobby a week ago and a group of people had gathered for the beginning of some sort of downtown walking tour. About 10-15 people The guide was giving a talk about the mall and without being too conspicuous I tried to listen in. It didn't give me the warm fuzzies. I could be wrong but the person was trying to argue that saving some of the west mall (the Eaton Centre) side was worth keeping as retail. Clearly, they've not read my memo.
It was hard to tell what the point of the tour was, or who the group was. It wasn't touristy, and it didn't look very business-y either.
It was hard to tell what the point of the tour was, or who the group was. It wasn't touristy, and it didn't look very business-y either.
kcantor
Senior Member
You might be getting a bit too harsh and judgemental with that assessment. Construction was actually started on the first of those office towers before the market went to hell in a handshake and it was capped before reaching full height and converted to a hotel. That’s why the Delta has such a strange floor plate for a hotel (it’s much too deep) and doesn’t have the lobby and amenity spaces you would expect in a purpose built hotel. People sometimes forget that developers work in the market, they don’t get to make the market and it was 30 plus years before the office market in downtown Edmonton even came close to recovering.