Very happy to see administration supporting this one - there was quite a lot of community blowback on the Engage Edmonton platform that had me nervous

From what I saw, it looks like Derk's rental business is moving out to Sherwood Park, but the main retail will stay here.

Unfortunately I think this is the single most likely outcome (and we will continue to see it many times over) with Council being unwilling to approve any sort of meaningful density inside of neighbourhoods. Certainly in West Oliver, the city has pretty clearly given preference to larger-scale...

Honestly, I'm always incredibly surprised to see these types of posts. I have lived downtown (not centrally, properly downtown) for 9 years now and I can honestly say I have never felt safer than I currently do. Obviously, there are clearly people who have had a different experience to mine but...

Haven't seen anything on this here or from the city, but it looks like this is going in the South Haven cemetery on the East edge of the city? https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/28/south-haven-centre-remembrance-edmonton-shape-architecture/ Anyways, looks like an interesting project and pretty good...

Of course, fascinating does not mean 'slam-dunk efficiency gain'

Agreed, it would be a nice boost to the city's coffers. A large scale Edmonton metro amalgamation would be fascinating simply due to the insane discrepancy in tax sources amongst the different municipalities in the area. Ironically, St. Albert residents would likely benefit the most of all as...

I signed up for their mailing list out of curiosity - they just sent an update yesterday saying occupancy of floors 2-12 would start in October. No word on the remainder of the building though.

If you bought the unit I'm thinking of, you got a hell of a deal on a very nice place - it was definitely tempting me for a bit there!

This was a nice profile and overview of the project, also notes that Dub Architects has moved their office into the top two floors: https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14792-the-edge-by-dub-architects

The recent 'boarding up' of the building was actually done by the city bylaw enforcement. They accumulated enough complaints to be able to take direct action to clean up the site a bit (presumably charging back to the owner). The second story window damage was actually from the fire response to...

I'm on their email list - the latest communication noted they moved their sales office on site, but it looks like sales are still ongoing. They are renting at least some number of units though (also included in the mailer) https://luxuryrentalsyeg.com/

You're absolutely right @Romanov, I live right beside this site and unfortunately they've let the building slip into a pretty terrible state of disrepair (even before the fire).

SW - caught me for a second too

Now you're talking! Nothing would have a larger impact on development in this city IMO. It is simply too cheap and easy to hold onto land, and developers (or speculators) have every incentive in the world to just wait for the next boom to cash out (whether you believe another boom is coming or...

Beat me to it!

I believe their map is very slightly off - this building is actually right beside the Wedge project, just to the East (just to the right of the point on their map)

Great looking project - reasonable size (not too big), well thought out floor plan. We need a bunch more just like this!

Loving gh3's residential portfolio - even more than their institutional/public stuff that we've seen here. I would have been beyond happy if the Edmonton Motor site had been something along the lines of this: https://www.gh3.ca/work/2450-victoria-park

I've often found this type of response from out of town visitors. Edmonton is not a city that hits you over the head with it's best features aside from the river valley (great) and the mall (less great). The good stuff in this city is spread out and not always terribly obvious. Outside of...