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Like I said: Essentially the same thing.
There is zero parking to drop off little ones safely on 109th and worse in the evening with the south flow of traffic.
I dinned there often for lunch when it was the Rose and Crown and food was much superior to Sherlock's on RHW or O'Byrnes on Whyte.
If the owner can find a tenant to take enough space to cover the costs, perhaps interim can last quite a while. There doesn't seem to have been a great demand to build anything new here so far even with the building vacant.
Yes and it is close to a fairly dense residential area, so I could see something other than the suburban drive and drop off model actually working here despite the limited parking nearby.
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I understand. In general I like the character of older buildings and in particular I knew someone who owned this one years ago, so happy to see it being used again.
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I’d rather see per door incentives for new builds. We don’t have as bad of glut as Calgary for old offices and a mostly empty office building still pays more taxes and is more attractive than a gravel parking lot.Sohi reflects on housing emergency declaration, downtown investment
In a year-end interview with Taproot, Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said council's declaration of a housing and houselessness emergency in January led to real change, despite provincial criticism at the time that it was performative.
Downtown investment
Sohi offered thoughts on the Downtown Investment Plan, co-authored by organizations including BILD Edmonton Metro, the Downtown Revitalization Coalition, and the Edmonton Downtown Business Association. The plan calls for governments to invest $427 million in Edmonton’s downtown to improve the public realm, and for the city to offer financial incentives for office-to-residential conversions. But Sohi said it would take too long for these incentives to be paid back through property taxes for them to be viable.
“I don’t think it is fair to ask working families and hardworking small businesses to deeply subsidize office conversions, which are very, very expensive to do, where the return on investment will take almost 85 years to recover,” he said.
Sohi added that the city has invested close to $2 billion in downtown since 2015.
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