Looking back at the old rederings; though those renovations would have been wildly impractical for this building's structure and layout what a cool story it would have been to take a former prison and turn it into a sanctuary.

I'm down for this. Put it far away from my place which is right beside the existing one too lol.

If that's the case do I have large slabs of marble to sell you.

The fact that we are talking about space constraints for a 1.4 hectare park is a sign in itself that it is disproportionately designed and maybe the city should go back to the drawing board.

The function of water features isn't just aesthetics, it has to do with creating white noise to drown out city noise and make a park more pleasant and inviting. They expropriated millions of dollars worth of land for a half measure and a straight up lie (put a bloody vault in for crying out...

If you like to scroll while pooping at work I recommend checking out the "Unbuilt" pages. There's over a dozen pages of unrecognized projects in and around the downtown core and some beyond. Edmonton really was a victim of taking it's next step as a major metropolitan city at the time that we...

Hey man I'll give high praise to plenty of developments. I really appreciate a lot of builds around this city. Some towers however simply look terrible and there's no reason to deny our architectural game is behind that of other cities.

Anyone remember the early designs that caused all the controversy in the community? Yikes, what we got feels like a spite move from the developer.

Swedish Aspens around the park perimeter babyyyyyyy

Some places. Things seem pretty quiet on the condo front downtown selling my place. Lots of looks, only one potential offer that they backed out of due to financing. Still a long ways to go I think. I wish I could hold another year for the park but I'm buying a house in BC and need to...

The single use corporation thing is such a joke. Law should be put in place where, when negligence is found, whoever was on the board can be pursued for the life of the development. So if load bearing beams for example are missing, it doesn't matter HOW long it's been, the victims of the...

Did you just ASSUME his career?! GOSH :eek:

Take a picture every day from the same tripod location! That would be sweet. A year's worth of shots would net you a ten second video.

Yes! That's exactly it precisely. And the only argument you ever hear to counter these concerns is that the parking restrictions exist in all major downtowns. You'd 100% get the student vote hahahah. Imagine being a starving student and having at least a fighting chance at free parking every...

It comes at my expense and the expense of others with bad timing, but affordability in the housing market is a very good thing for Edmonton. That said, I think we're going to see in increase in central values y/y based off a few metrics, we're just not there yet.

That's a great analysis and point of view. Mine's fairly anecdotal based off my own views. Kinda crappy to have people over for drinks and wings on a game night then when one gets a ticket from the meter maid they all stop coming and we all goto South Edmonton Common instead. Downtown is still...

I've been saying it for years. Accessibility and amenities. You give burbanites the ability to park on streets they will come explore downtown more often, they won't pay and that's a fact of life that the city shouldn't try to fight. You invest in things that are fun: parks, bowling alleys...

So, like....should I stop trying to sell my place downtown? lol

That title isn't really being fair to the Katz group considering the article itself clearly states they're following the current permitting process for surface parking. Title is designed to draw outrage at the local billionaire, when they're actually playing by the rules while others just let...

I mean you didn't hear this from Ol' Steve-O but I'm sure if you were curious you could get some empirical measurements using a drone. Or just email their sales peeps and ask.