I would literally take an unsanctioned gravel parking lot with potholes the size of grizzly bears than this project. And nothing anybody can say would ever change my mind. Garbage like this proposal cannot be permitted to exist, even in feverish nightmares. And those trees in the renderings...

What the FCUK!!!! Remand Centre 2.0 is too nice a descriptor. Good god, Edmonton. I give up. That's a national embarrassment.

CIBC still owns the site, correct? Knowing Quadreal, the owners of Commerce Place, they'd have effectively zero interest in taking this on. That said, development of the CIBC parcel would certainly benefit from some form of mutually-beneficial shared service agreements.

Right now? You're known as the place where investment goes to die. At the latest Toronto RE forum, during the CEO roundtable, they were bullish about much of Canada, except for Edmonton. The LITERAL statement from one CEO was "Sorry Edmonton, but not going there." The rest of the CEOs at the...

It would be exciting for that building to fill up its many vacant office floors. Historically, that complex has experienced vacancy well in excess of market averages.

I wonder if the AGA needs to focus on traveling exhibitions that'll bring in people that wouldn't go to a gallery often. The VAG in Vancouver is dying a slow death because it seems stuck in ultra-of-the-moment art that speaks to such a small group it might as well meet at a coffee shop. They...

QC uber AB. Quelle surprise.

Ever Red. You read it here first. They're the most Edmonton developer out there these days it seems, with their new projects seemingly ripped from the breast of Leduc.

I can almost guarantee I'll be pushing up daisies before the Leduc airport will ever need a third runway.

Wow that looks like a skating oval, it's so icy. Where's the ambulance-chasing lawyers when you need one?

CRUs the market did not need, might I add. Such a horrific urban design.

I wasn't sure which thread to put these sound bites in. I was at the Canada/Toronto real estate forum and two things really stuck out. One: without exaggeration, at almost every presentation or roundtable I sat at, I met a former Edmontonian. Reminds me how much talent didn't remain in Edmonton...

Uh, 100% gonna disagree with you there. It's an issue throughout the entire metro Vancouver area, all the way out to the Fraser Valley and south to White Rock. The only area that is generally able to escape the nuttiness is West Van, away from its commercial areas.

Nice company you've got there, Edmonton. 🤨

Counterpoint: urban elites can't even spell suburbanite properly. 😚 I kid, I kid.