A friend of mine was part of the city team that was working on this project a few years ago. The way he framed it to me was that it was caught in a pickle. The city wants to recoup the money it spent stabilizing the building (10+ million) and the cost to make the building a usable space was...

Eh, I don't care what people from Calgary or anywhere else think of Edmonton. Personally, I have lived in both Calgary and Vancouver and hated them both, would rather those folks not come here. I love living in Edmonton and am quite happy with it being our own high quality of life secret. The...

Exactly, people balk when I share what my condo fees are but then I compare them to their cost of utilities, insurance, maintenance, and home repairs and its usually fairly close. The condo fees are usually a little higher than their costs on a comparable SFH, but then I don't have to do yard...

100%, the number of people I talk to who think Condo fees are some arbitrary extra fee that exists on top of utilities, maintenance, insurance, etc is shocking.

Ah, Boo! Not sure why I'd never noticed it before.

Interestingly, I found this on my walk this morning. Corner of 73rd Street and 112 ave. Looks like Concordia is finally going to develop student housing. Couldn't find the permit or any details online though. Anyone know anything about it?

Yes, but that's basically all sunk cost that almost all Edmontonians already have. You don't have to convince me, I lived without a car in Vancouver/Asia for a number of years and it was glorious and saved so much money. But there are precisely zero things the city can over the next 10 years...

I don't think you can make parking cost realistically high enough to force change. People have enough choice that if you made downtown parking high enough to match ETS cost, then people will just go elsewhere. Unless you work there. My opinion, is we need pay for distance fares (common in many...

This is a problem with our transit system generally. The cost to driving is very poor for occasional users, especially when you have multiple people. My wife and I moved near Stadium station intending to use the train, but we don't need to commute. To go downtown for an activity would cost us...

I don't think getting East Asian companies to build them would make much of a difference. The difference in governance likely plays a bigger role than who is building it. When I lived in Taiwan while they were building a bunch of commuter rail projects the difference was stark, no community...

This is a major piece of decision making that needs to be fully understood. Cities do not have much control over a large portion of their infrastructure funding, changing things has knock on effects. I would also rather them focus on the NW extension or tunnelling under University Ave. But...

Saw a couple of construction dudes working on the patio today I think.

87000 people died from cancer in Canada, home of doctors. How does that help? SCS are one tool in fighting overdose deaths, a vital one proven many times over to save lives. It is NOT a silver bullet that immediately solves all addictions or overdoes deaths. To discount their value based on...

I bet the OEG would see any activity like that as competition and immediately raise a stink with the city. I don't think we will ever see anything large scale that isn't directly controlled by OEG again.

Isn't that the place that developed a patio with a permit/planning permission and got smacked down by the city?

Very interested in what the design for the 112 ave/82 st crossing will look like. I suspect if you are biking along 112th between highlands and downtown you will end up having to cross 112 twice, once at Borden park and then again when past the train line. Don't love that and I suspect many bike...

I'd be careful with this optimism. I am working with a number of newcomers to Edmonton from Toronto, they are explicitly coming because they want the SFH suburban dream they can't get in Ontario. These aren't urbanists looking to live in the core. This is further evidenced by how depressed the...

Honestly, because of the inequity in access to hospitals between South and North Edmonton, I would actually applaud the UCP if they seriously invested in Royal Alex instead of the new South Hospital. The Royal Alex is one of the highest use hospitals in the province, is ancient, and covers a...

Sorry, yes. My ADHD brain read IanO's comment as 104 ave. Those are the two I hate. The one on 104 st and Jasper is just fine. PS, your username is awesome.

Agree with this one being the priority. Not only is it bad for traffic, but it also hinders the frequency/capacity of the LRT.