strata
Active Member
I assume Herrington's is the same flower business that recently closed at West Block, and just moved their operation to CCM?
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KreationYEG
Active Member
They cleaned up the vinyl that’s covering the old Bay windows. I think they painted over the old design, looks better than the state the original vinyl was in. But is quite hard on the eyes.
Coprolite
Active Member
That's certainly a choice.
kcantor
Senior Member
^^
Tag me. tag me, tag me…
Tag me. tag me, tag me…
Barnaby
Active Member
Do you have something to to with ECC? I see alot of columns on the roof that could maybe be turned into a tower, or something shorter like Stationlands?
kcantor
Senior Member
I have no direct connection to ECC but it’s my understanding the project was to include a number of office towers so those kinds of provisions could well have been made. What is now the Delta was to have been the first office tower until the office market collapsed and it was converted to a hotel (which explains the “too deep for a hotel” floor plate, poor lobby and street access for a hotel, insufficient meeting rooms and food service options for a hotel etc.).
LibraLibro
New Member
Does anyone know why the city insists on using red brick pavers every chance they get? Is it more economically viable? Because it sure as hell isn’t aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
kcantor
Senior Member
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Because they deteriorate so badly and so quickly in our climate that they make the rest of our infrastructure look good in comparison?
Because they deteriorate so badly and so quickly in our climate that they make the rest of our infrastructure look good in comparison?
IanO
Superstar
What
David A
Senior Member
I suppose it is better than unpainted boarded up plywood, but it does still give a sort of permanently abandoned vibe.
Paradoxically, more people walking on the street in front here now with the Valley Line LRT line finally in operation, but I suppose to late to save this store location.
Although to be fair, I feel the Bay has its own serious problems that extend way beyond downtown Edmonton. Hopefully something else will fill this space eventually.
Greenspace
Senior Member
There's some murals going on.
Offworld
New Member
When I spoke to a planner back in the early days of Eaton Centre being open and operational, that person told me that ZERO infrastructure for towers, multi-res or office, had been built when the mall was first built. There were acknowledgments from this person that the grand scheme proposed by 555 was just that, a scheme. It was just another mall.
David A
Senior Member
The way the Delta is built strongly leads one to believe it was intended to be a base for a much larger building. Maybe that is actually not the case, but it sure looks like it.
However, maybe after 40 years the point is somewhat moot. There doesn't ever seem to have been much interest in a tower here, other than the initial scheme which did seem to have a bait and switch feel to it.
However, maybe after 40 years the point is somewhat moot. There doesn't ever seem to have been much interest in a tower here, other than the initial scheme which did seem to have a bait and switch feel to it.
archited
Senior Member
A simple look at the roof suggests that columns have been capped for future superstructure development -- I doubt that it is in any way "fake".
Coprolite
Active Member
The downtown location was a bit more poorly run than others. I was genuinely surprised when I went to the Southgate location and staff were actually present and helpful, and their inventories weren't terrible. But they've certainly been taking the axe to locations across the country and their attempts to "revive Zellers" and "go online" have been weird and disjointed. That they never had a strategy for the latter until it was at the "OH SHIT WE HAD BETTER DO THIS" point is especially weird given that they were one of those companies with a long history of catalog order fulfilment.