Here's my controversial list:
- a major downtown stadium gets announced in 2025 to be completed by 2032 and along with it comes some new Professional franchises including MLS (Major League Soccer) and NSL (Northern Super League) and relocating the Elks CFL franchise
- Katz crew announces two more franchises for the ICE District -- WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) and PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League)
- Edmonton cedes ownership of Commonwealth Stadium to Katz and friends so that they can convert portions of the stadium to alternative uses including both summer and winter X-games with all programming rights intact and with features that were demonstrated in the Fan Park -- like the Ice -Climbing wall, mini-fairs, etc. -- major outdoor concerts, etc. until the new downtown stadium is finished,
- Katz builds a mixed use residential tower/specific-use office tower as the third tower in the ICE district plaza area (where CWB was supposed to go); Katz also announces plans for a residential tower with a retail podium for their land on 104th street
- Qualico begins building of the 37-storey tower on the heels of record lease-out of the current phase of Stationlands and details plans for the next two towers in that progression.
- Edmonton donates the land occupied by Chancery Hall to AGA for a major expansion of that facility to include sculpture gardens, atria, and world-class art exhibition space. Andrew Bromberg is named as the Design Architect for the new facility that expands onto the Chancery Hall site, the adjacent 99th Street roadway that is closed as part of the development parcel and onto the western portion of the existing Law Courts building (sculpture garden)
- the City works out a trade with the Prov.s taking over the old Remand site and the Old RAM site in exchange for the Century Place Tower. Century Place Tower and the adjacent land between it and the existing Law Courts building becomes the new site for the new Family Courts Building promised by the Prov.s -- the design commission going to GEC. The City would then arrange a sale of the old RAM building to Beljan and of the former remand site to Qualico with the proviso that they start construction of new towers there within 3-years and also that they rehabilitate the LRT subway station at 97th street connecting the new RAM, the Law Courts complex, AGA, the EPS building and the John E. Brownlee Building. Qualico then designs for two additional towers to extend the reach of Stationlands into the Quarters and designs a connecting park atop the existing bridge that spans 97th Street.
- the Edmonton Public School Board sells their downtown book repository building to the Chinatown group (a new conglomerate) that then hires a Taiwan Design Group to develop a formal Chinese Garden on the site and connects the new garden to the northward expansion of the subterranean pedway a la NYC's Lowline Concept park.
- Westrich Pacific re-finds their big-boy pants and stops whining about 6-storey stick frames being more economical to develop (of course there are price differences but there are also concept differences -- what next, building with cardboard?). They instead show a very imaginative approach to two separate parcel-groupings that they own. One -- the three corners that they have at 103rd Avenue and 104th Street that shows an imaginative interconnected complex with the old brick storage building converted into a funky boutique hotel surrounded by three apartment towers on each corner (set back on the 103rd north and 104th east property. These then connected to an RH department store and high-end condominium tower on the 4th corner (southwest corner of 103rd Ave and 104th Street. In total a Big City development that acknowledges its proximity to the ICE District and to the pedestrian realm that is 104th Street. and Two their property on the eastern edge of the Warehouse District Park -- hire some design-capable architects like GEC or Group 2 or Next to design a building that proudly states "this is Edmonton!" with retail amenities that complement the park (since the City is happy to bypass that notion) and that also states "I live here and I am a proud Edmontonian".
- the initial planning for a Permanent World Indigenous Peoples' Exposition that says "come to Edmonton everyone" and that then repurposes the Old Power Plant building and all of the land south of 97th Street that has remained vacant for over 50 years.
- the beginning of construction on the new NorQuest building
- the completion of a sale for the-hole-in-the-ground (for years now) of the 121 Street site to a new developer who builds a high-class residential tower there with ground floor retail and/or hospitality.
- the start of construction of the Jasper tower
- the start of construction of Clifton Place
- the start of construction of Falcon II
- the start of construction of the Parks II tower
- the start of Strathcona Hat II
- in the Quarters a design completion Phase I for a new Cultural enclave that includes an Opera House (yes Edmonton is now of that size) and a Modern Dance Theatre conjoined with an upscale Condominium tower.
- the re-emergence of Alldritt's 80-storey tower south of Jasper next to the Convention Centre.
