While these plans and visions of the council back in the day did not come to fruition as planned (as the article mentions, for various reasons), at least councils of the day had the vision for these grand plans. I cannot say the same thing about Sohi and council, and I don't feel as if Iveson's...

The City pitched "The Edmonton Project", asked for unique ideas to make this city a better place, selected the gondola as the winning idea, then shut it down instead of seeing how a solution could be found to the challenges the city, the project, and the developer faced. That's all you need to...

I have been quite outspoken on this and other forums about Edmonton Global's performance, or lack there of. You can count on one hand the number of companies that have publicly announced investment or relocation to Edmonton due to efforts from Edmonton Global since its inception in 2017, and...

A couple of thoughts: 1. Pretty weak looking plan - if your first action is to market and promote the advantages of Edmonton.....then what have you been doing all this time???? And more specifically, how do you intend to do that? I know for a fact the Calgary Economic Development group has an...

Different factors at play, once Falcon 1 is stabilized Langham can get CMHC MLI Select takeout financing. Their plan depending on how much equity they can get out of the Falcon 1 building from that takeout financing will determine how much cash they can/want to put into Falcon 2. CMHC has been...

https://www.fastcompany.com/91147760/toronto-is-turning-an-old-airport-into-a-sprawling-new-neighborhood Here is a great case study and a good comp of what Toronto is doing to convert the Downsview airport into new development lands. While comps are never perfect, it is key to note here that...

Unfortunately lots of potential but no execution or vision is what defines a lot of opportunities in Edmonton. In a national housing crisis Edmonton has some of the most undeveloped land in its core areas waiting to be activated out of any major Canadian city between Rossdale, the Quarters...

You just proved my point exactly...... In my experience as a resident of downtown who has called 311 on many different issues that bylaw seems to be preoccupied enforcing more innocuous issues than addressing repeated and known problem properties like Arlington How many more times do we as...

I have a friend who owns a building in the 104 street area. He is a business owner and put up a large sign for his business on the side of his building and bylaw came by and had him take it down cause it was too big. All he could do is shake his head in disbelief at the priorities of bylaw/the...

Walking past last night. Weeds were up to about 5 feet in some areas of this site. Where’s bylaw enforcement?

In consultation with a number of their policy committee's comprised of various people throughout the business community, the Chamber of Commerce back in January highlighted that a big gap (to probably no one's surprise) is Edmonton's branding or lack of branding, which is hurting its ability to...

This shouldn't be a surprise, in many different studies or surveys or even from personally living and working in the downtown cores of Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and now Edmonton, a big reason people live downtown is because they want to live and work downtown, certainly not everyone, but many...

Hahaha oh man I went and looked at the reviews and they are hilarious. You can spot the real ones who provide detail while giving it a 1/5 then the fake ones that rave about their kids' pineapple juice and give it a 5/5. Woof. Their website also cracks me up because all it is is pictures of...

It'll get demolished because "its the most Edmonton thing you can do", as they say

https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/new-hotel-near-edmonton-ice-district#comments-200304 Uhhhhhh anyone know about this starting? Daily Hive is pretty junk reporting and the article references 0 about how it decided it was starting this year? Or did this article just read this thread and post an...

What?

Tried to get into Kelly’s after the game last night at 10ish and the lineup was massive. So we walked next door to this spot and asked for a table and they said sorry we are full. Except the entire one half of the restaurant already had the chairs up on the tables and was closed up, while the...

And can you tell me exactly what that means? How many executives? For how long? Are new executive roles going to still run through Edmonton or are they now legacy roles until the current executives retire? Again, that could mean a lot and is typically from my experience the vague statement...

And what exactly does "HQ is staying here" mean? Maybe they retain a mailing address? Maybe they retain their Edmonton execs until they retire then eliminate those functions or roll them up into Montreal or Calgary rolls? I have worked on several large M&A deals across corporate north America...

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/06/11/2897188/0/en/National-Bank-to-accelerate-domestic-growth-with-the-acquisition-of-Canadian-Western-Bank.html Edmonton loses another head office