The posts above weren't at all about whether Edmonton is doing well or not, they were commentaries from Ian's and my experience and connections and conversation forming observations about what people in the market are doing and saying about Edmonton and Calgary. Many investors and developers...

I can substantiate this as well. My firm which is Edmonton based, is seeing multiples higher investment opportunities for multifamily in Calgary than in Edmonton. We are accelerating opening a Calgary office for this reason simply because the population increase in Calgary is materially higher...

Haha obviously there are more than 1,000 people working downtown. My point is that there might actually be 40,000 people working downtown which is a lot less than the 1.5M you note as almost a way to diminish the significance of that despite the fact that 1.5M is almost an irrelevant number...

It not good news for our downtown numbers, a community of a lot closer to the 1,000 people in terms of downtown numbers than it is the 1.5 million you are referring to across the entire city

Huh, maybe just maybe a few of us on here have been on to something about attracting and increasing the number of professional...errr..."call center" jobs as you so often refer to, so that there isnt such lumpiness and dependency on industrial type jobs in Edmonton's for your exact reason you...

If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it does it still make a noise? Edmonton Global, the mayor, and city council have corporate development priorities so far down the list that its not even on the list. So it begs the questions, will any of those parties be around to...

In theory and based on many other places around the world that build transit that spurs development, I would absolutely think so. That being said, this is Edmonton and that doesnt always happen. I have heard of no plans (that doesnt mean there arent any but in my development circle I havent...

Who? The City of Edmonton and the weeds that fill the boulevards of our river valley water access points? If so, then yes they truly have done an incredible job at allowing that.

The Edmonton development starter pack. Throw in a weed store, a liquor store, maybe a Vo's Nails and insert bank here.

Yes exactly, BulLarkey detector! Which is why my radar goes off after most of your postings. Let me see if I can count by memory: 1. Defiantly staking your reputation (and in some cases putting other forum members down) that Alldritt was going to start, despite many others involved in the...

Let me guess, BCM would've completed this in 2013 if it weren't for COVID right? If you believe that BCM was serious, and you believed that Aldritt was about to start in March 2022, and you believe that Regency's performance of its sites has been because of COVID then I have some snow to sell...

The BMO building started demolition in January 2018, their Emerald site was demolished in 2016 - both well before COVID. Absolutely laughable that we are passing off their current financial condition as an excuse for their recent performance, which includes preCOVID. If they can’t do business...

As this post was July 6th one month ago, what timeline is considered imminent? Since that post, WestJet released their updated schedule so unless its as separate announcement coming we know its not WestJet and I learned long long long time ago that I just wont assume its Air Canada. AA made...

Picture on the left is November 2022, picture on the right is today August 2023. Which project in downtown Edmonton will get dragged across the finish line first? 1. The exciting beige-to-grey never ending paint job of Peak Tower 2. The perpetually delayed goal post moving Valley Line LRT SE 3...

The ironic reality though is that it is easier to get financing for affordable residential in areas like this than it is to get financing for commercial / retail. Reason being is that the residential assuming it is deemed "affordable" would qualify under CMHC financing, and given the low vacancy...

I saw surveyors on that plot a couple weeks ago. Makes sense seeing this permit now. Edit - given the location and looking at SPAN's website I am guessing this will be a generic looking commercial building: http://www.spanarch.ca/

https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/edmonton-real-estate-searches-quadruple https://financialpost.com/news/top-searched-cities-real-estate-canada

1. "Updates from City administration, for example, report that the City has invested over $186 million into Blatchford and seen only $38 million in the way of revenues. While those would be eye-watering margins in the private sector, the project has the benefit of an abnormally resilient...

Ya you're probably right CTV must have some weird obsession with sensationalizing downtown crime while other media networks wouldnt do such a thing. Take your tin foil hat off once in a while it might be screwed on too tight.

Poor comment. 96st is downtown and I am not sure why the location or proximity to an event matters more than the actual crime in this case. To the individual who was stabbed, I dont think he cares if it as 96st, 104st, 112st.