You know what makes way way way too much sense in this city considering that we are facing financial shortfalls given sprawl? 1. Finally get over this dream of being a big developer in Blatchford. Sell the land for what it is worth to actual land developers and get an immediate cash inflow that...

https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/gunter-public-safety-key-to-revitalizing-edmontons-downtown For all the hot takes Gunter has I certainly agree with this one. It seems that at the two year mark of council and for the recent 3 years of the state that has been downtown, it sure seems...

An email I received from Air Canada today down below - amusingly generic email I might say though as I am not a frequent flyer through YYC and have intentionally not flown through YYC on Air Canada since I cant even remember when: "This week Air Canada made some schedule changes, which included...

The motto for downtown Edmonton should be - "1 step forward eliminating empty vacant low value lots, 3 steps back creating low value empty vacant lots"

For sale at just over $3MM. Developer wasnt entirely happy with how phase 1 went. Phase 1 performance coupled with the fact that the area has been and continues to be stagnant in terms lacking amenities, a grocery store, restaurants, etc. their outlooked soured and did not see a path forward...

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...