What do you think of this project?

  • I like it a lot

    Votes: 10 47.6%

  • I like it

    Votes: 11 52.4%

  • I neither like nor dislike it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I dislike it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I dislike it a lot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    21
bodsbods9090 said:
A win-win.

New place for Boyle Street, OEG gets more property and an old building gets new life.
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"OEG paid $5 million — the appraised value of the site, according to Boyle Street — and the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation donated an additional $10 million toward the $28.5-million total cost for the new centre"

A total of $15 million in funding, more than half the total cost, from OEG & EOCF.
 
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Love this, a big win-win for sure. The wonderful Brutalist 1960 Edmonton Public School Board building gets a new life in a great looking renovation (from Hodgson Schilf Evans, no less) and Boyle Street gets a much larger, more functional space to truly make their own. On the other side, the OEG get to further consolidate their Ice District 2.0 holdings and also are contributing over half of the cost of Boyle Street's new home in the process (through the land purchase and donation).
 
Boyle Street Community Services1,308 followers3h • 3 hours ago
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We are so excited to finally announce... we have secured a new facility for our downtown Community Centre!

Through a dynamic partnership with Oilers Entertainment Group and Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, we have secured a new building to house our Community Centre in the heart of downtown Edmonton!

Expecting to open in mid- to late- 2023, our new facility at 107 Avenue and 101 Street is just two blocks away from our current site. In addition to this new facility, we have also secured the neighbouring 38-unit apartment building, allowing us to provide even more housing services for members of our community.

Our new facility will be purpose-built, allowing Boyle Street Community Services to better serve the most vulnerable in our city. This new site will feature an interior space that is beautiful, welcoming, accessible, and designed for the needs of the people we serve – all things our clients deserve.

The size and location of our new site will also allow us to have natural outdoor space, including a community garden, a courtyard, private patio spaces, and – truly the most exciting – space for Indigenous ceremony, including a sweat lodge right in the heart of our city!

Boyle Street Community Services is committed to a meaningful engagement process that will see us work closely with our many stakeholders, including local businesses, residents and community leagues. We have also worked extensively with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, Indigenous Elders, and trauma-informed architects to ensure that our new facility will provide the best environment possible for the people we serve.

We are so excited to share this news with you, and we are eager to share more details with you as this project develops. On behalf of everyone at Boyle Street Community Services, THANK YOU!

To learn more, please visit https://lnkd.in/gKcfVYbV

#BuildWithBoyle
 
Right on! Nice to see some of that ridiculous 50/50 money going to a good cause.
 
Avenuer said:
Love this, a big win-win for sure. The wonderful Brutalist 1960 Edmonton Public School Board building gets a new life in a great looking renovation (from Hodgson Schilf Evans, no less) and Boyle Street gets a much larger, more functional space to truly make their own. On the other side, the OEG get to further consolidate their Ice District 2.0 holdings and also are contributing over half of the cost of Boyle Street's new home in the process (through the land purchase and donation).
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I actually never knew that was the old EPSB building. Always wondered what that space used to be. Wish I had liked paintball enough to visit when it was in that iteration.

That said, damn that pales in comparison to Calgary old Board of Education building for being a brutalist monolith

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Every once in a while something unexpected happens that makes total sense and checks all the boxes. This is really all round good news.

Boyle Street gets a much bigger space, which can be so much more functional and suits their needs, plus the park space and apartments.

The old school board building gets fixed up and used for something that can help people in the area more.
 
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