Highly unlikely. Better margins, lower risk to build 6-storey wood frame. Abbey Lane has built both wood and concrete product and I am almost certain Bruno would tell you the same thing.

There are three 'fortress malls' in Edmonton and they are in order to highest sales psf: WEM, Southgate and Kingsway. The rest are more or less neighbourhood/community malls.

I also agree with you 100%....should remain residential. Plus the last thing our office market (and almost every other) needs is more space TBH.

Would agree with you 100%.

And in other news Manulife might be home to CWB’s new HQ. Can’t make the numbers work on the Ice District tower, which isn’t surprising given the cost of construction and interest rates. You need rates $50/sf to make sense, that’s across the board and I don’t think there are any deals at those...

IIRC 3-levels below grade.

Even pre-pandemic this was a 'C' location. Sure it's new space, but there's not much action in this area outside M-F 8-430pm and even then it's so-so.

Why is it 'mind boggling' height?

Good news. The entire Ice District was missing a good coffee joint. Good to see them with a second location.

No, the CB3 zone ‘allows’ one to develop a 23-storey building. They are not planning that here.

Disagree. I don't mind this at all. Provides some visual interest to the podium level that juxtaposes the other vertical/horizontal design elements.

It seems like it has taken forever to finish the acrylic stucco. Nice to finally see the tarps come down.

All designed by GEC. There's your lineage on the design ;)

Another surface gravel parking lot biting the dust, literally!

Love that this knocked out a gravel parking lot too. Great density boost for that area and more coming.

He has risen! Anyways I agree. A lot of g*ddamn whining happening on these forums nowadays. Many don't remember where our downtown was back in the 90's/early 2000's. Yeah, there was a time where we sh*t our pants when a Starbucks was announced somewhere in the downtown. Sure we have our...

Not really. Contamination doesn't just 'go away'. You either remove it, treat it with chemical injections or aerate it over time - how you remediate a contaminated site depends on the type of contamination too - hydrocarbons, dry cleaning chemicals, etc.

^No I don't believe so. At least not what I can recall.

I completely forgot about this plaza redevelopment. Looking good.

Don't worry, it's Alldritt, this won't be built. But as I've said many times in the past, prove me wrong. With respect to the proposed concept, I would have approached this site differently. I would have designed this to accommodate multiple buildings with the majority being 6-storey wood...