https://edmontonjournal.com/business/edmonton-office-vacancy

https://betakit.com/intuit-closes-edmonton-office-as-company-wide-layoffs-impact-10-percent-of-employees/ Intuit seems to have around 250 employees or less in DT. A blow, but I expected more based on the wording in that CBC article

If Parks Phase II goes ahead next spring as rumoured, and Stationlands Tower 2 goes ahead in Q2 2025, I really don't see why this wouldn't follow suit too tbh. At this rate, I'm hoping for a surprise announcement for a project downtown soon lol

Honestly, just in time for student rental season too lol. This should fill up quick.

Exactly! I genuinely wouldn't mind as much if we had this responsibility IF we were given the appropriate amount of funding to handle it. But we don't :(

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/leduc-city-council-rescinds-previous-motion-supporting-homeless-shelter-1.7256227 Rural and suburban Alberta foisting its problems onto Edmonton again? A tale as old as time.

A waitlist bodes really well. Personally am curious where Langham's next multi-tower project lies. Second tower seems like a certainty at this point.

https://urbanaffairs.ca/edmonton-ish/the-great-southern-debate/ https://urbanaffairs.ca/edmonton-ish/life-the-universe-and-subdivisions/ *Not sure if this is the right section for this discussion, so if this fits somewhere better, please do so! I've got to say, I'm actually really annoyed by...

I'm so curious how well this does. O'Byrne's on Whyte is insanely busy so this is a welcome boost if this brings several hundred people on the weekend. Personally wouldn't mind 103 Ave being the beneficiary of Ice District spillover.

Yeah, the "not being a local" thing is evident with some of his statements. Either way, this sort of publicity is good publicity no matter what, even if it is with a niche audience. If I had Katz money, or even was a multi-millionaire, I'd fly him out and other urbanist Youtubers here to make...

The fountain being removed is a bit disappointing but I'm honestly more excited about the possibility of a skating rink here, especially that the Victoria Park one closes so early on the weekdays.

I understand we're already at our municipal Cactus Club quota lol, but I'm sorta surprised this area doesn't have that or an Earls.

Yeah I wouldn’t mind it if the buildings were more neo-classical in design. Street life would still be dead BUT at least it’d be architecturally impressive and we’d have more tourists visiting that besides the Legislature Grounds.

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/keith-gerein-optimism-in-downtown-edmonton-ritchie-controversy I'll take the positive news stories about downtown for once. If this takes more people here, then I'm all for it.

I wish I was an Edmonton Journal contributor because I would write the most pro-urbanist takes to get that angry click/comment traffic. “Why you should use scooters instead of cars” “Downtown isn’t what the right makes it out to be” “Denny’s is overrated”

For every complaint, it should get one extra floor lmao

Once this all starts coming together (Parks and Park), this area will probably have people go "Okay wait this is a nice area to live in" Hell I'm extremely tempted to move to the Parks once it starts leasing for this exact reason.

124th will probably ebb upwards as the area gets more people and densifies. VLW will probably give it a massive boost too probably.

Yeah these people can get bent