One of the new stories specifically mentioned his family in BC, which did seem odd given it was well noted in the coverage that he is an Edmonton MP. It was also mentioned somewhere he planned to quit for a while, so maybe it is partly related to the family move, or maybe they are in a...

Yes, I wonder about that too. Who was contacting his family and what did they say? Many questions arise from this situation and the strange twists and turns.

Is that janitor also keeping custody of those 80 bricks, one for each year until it gets started?

Hey another word that starts with d is deflection. They could have titled this article "Downtown (non) developer deflects blame", or at least tries to. However, this is what happens when you tear down a nice building, leaving an empty lot in a prominent location downtown and you do not make...

Well coersion is only one word and has such negative connotations, so perhaps pressured or extreme pressure instead? Can someone be pressured to say they are not being coerced? Jeneroux seems to also have later clarified his departure will actually be next spring (after PP's leadership review)...

Strawberries are great, but really they should just dial it back a bit. I feel someone in communications at the city has been working late and has had too much coffee or something else.

Maybe at some point Katz realized or decided it should not fall entirely upon him to revitalize or save our downtown, perhaps around the time COVID happened. Fortunately there are several other projects nearby that have gone ahead and are going ahead, so maybe we don't need to look at him as...

I went there once and am not surprised and frankly the location is also not so great. A number of nearby places on or more visible from Jasper Ave seem to do better.

Yes, a big project that takes years to complete is based it on the conditions when you start it and what you expect to happen. Of course things can and do change, in this case way more dramatically than expected. Here it wasn't just a negative economic change which is not so unusual, but also...

Oh oh, more problems for PP with his MPs and this time, it is one of our local ones https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-matt-jeneroux-resigns-9.6970100

Yes and Energy Square has also recently been improved while still keeping most of its distinctive character, proving it is still possible to make things better, not worse. So it is not all bad news.

On that note, unfortunately the UCP seems to be planning to tear down some older schools in central Edmonton now.

Yes, lets try to avoid the negative hyperbole here. Several bigger buildings have been recently completed, some smaller projects and conversions are ongoing, various other projects are proposed that may happen soon.

I realize being downtown there are only so many places to build bigger, newer things as the city grows. I can sort of live with some old and nice buildings being gone, if the space it is filled by something decent or nicer. What irks me, are things like our central Library building which has...

When I go through Manulife the area on the second level is consistently one the busiest downtown, if not the busiest. So hopefully they will fill the rest of the remaining retail space here when construction is done.

It actually may be quite challenging to try make it off of the short and sporadic rushes before and after events. Other locations a bit further away probably get more business at other times to balance things out better.

Probably not coincidentally, that is a common Edmonton style theme - ugly on the outside but nice on the inside. Not sure why we often can't make more effort for the other part.

Also because of lack of much if any regular EPS presence in downtown Edmonton, except to respond to incidents, sometimes hours later?

In hindsight, the library built in the 60's was also actually nicer architecturally than the metal blob there now. Aren't things supposed to improve as a city grows? We seem to have gone the other way here with this one.

The city also needs to focus much more on attracting the type of businesses that can or will be interested in being in the core or more central areas. So much here still seems so focused on industrial development on the fringe or outside of the city. Yes, that has worked in the past when the...