Some local streetcar history for those interested: https://www.forgottenedmonton.com/stories/the-conductorettes

Photos from a recent tour I was a part of. From left-to-right: the view from the sixth(?) storey lookout; the north-face of the 1922 building, which now fronts an atrium; the restored ex-Medical Reading Room; one of two ex-lecture theatres. The last two are particularly interesting. Both of...

This idea never truly died until the streetcar network did. Another proposal, similar in nearly every respect, surfaced in 1949. I'll include a picture or two from the Edmonton Bulletin below. Momentum built, and at that year’s municipal election the matter went to plebiscite. On their ballots...

I was one of those people! Definitely packed, but not uncomfortably so. Great to see the Society receiving a huge increase in ridership

Ah yes, that dastardly cabal of heritage elites who've had unprecedented success saving buildings. Oh wait... I'd understand this argument if we had the density of Vancouver or Toronto, but in a city where gravel parking lots reign supreme it's a fallacy. Agreed on all points, but this is a...

Yup, this came up in the HRRP. Apparently it's the children of the long-time owner who are really behind the recent push to restore it

Yeah, they're using one of the old pictures. @archited posted one of the more up-to-date elevations. As told to us at the HRRP, including the south facade in the revisions was the only concession Limak would give to the City — they have no intention of trying to salvage anything else:

Also worth mentioning is that the facades won't be "rebuilt" per se. This development came up at a recent meeting of the Historic Resource Review Panel and David Johnston, City Heritage Planner, explained that if it ever goes ahead the west and south faces will be retained in-situ, like the...

Lots to surf through, but most of them can be found here. There's a few elsewhere from around the city, but most come from the Boyle Street area...

The long and short of it is slum clearance. To condense a half-century of history, by the late '70s Boyle Street was largely home to low-income earners and minority groups renting out aging pre-Great War housing. The powers-that-be saw it as shabby and dangerous and stated buying up properties...

Some shots from today. Not pictured is the new connection with SAB currently under construction — it looks to be a two storey link.

Interesting how history repeats itself... From January 1967:

I will say that @cliffapotamus' pictures (as nice as they are!) don't really do the station justice at night. I passed through yesterday evening and it's beautiful. The glow of the strip lighting reflects off the wood ceilings and envelops the station in this lovely orange hue (as flowery and...

It's visible in this picture posted by @retiredfire in the Valley Line thread:

It's a neat one. Built in 1932 as an auto salesroom. The second floor came later:

My thought from earlier in the thread:

If you're referencing how there's no mention of interior alterations, those are well underway/completed already. The residential units run by Boyle Street opened last year, and Glass Book Shop is currently renovating the storefronts:

Work's still yet to start on the exterior renovation of the Stovel Block, but I was able to find a render of what they're proposing to do courtesy of L7 Architecture:

^Always makes me happy to see new developments in and around Chinatown, I just wish the design was a bit nicer.