I was waiting for that image and hope most comes to fruition but the reality is that our market, its absorption rates and the reality of it all is much different than other marketplaces.
We are betting on a multiple horses and hope that one or two hit.
I have worked as an architect on projects in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and broadly SoCal, the San Francisco Bay area, greater Phoenix and the Las Vegas basin. Your assumptions about development are so naive and elementary. Of course, not all Edmonton projects will "arrive" -- neither will they for Toronto, Hamilton, Windsor, Vancouver, nor Kelowna -- quite true for any market place on earth. So what is your point! We have just come from a "no-go" zone vis-a-vis COVID where financing for hospitality, senior-care, retail, and industrial projects has vaporized, no matter the location. Los Angeles, by itself, is a stronger development market than all of those in Canada put together -- a metro population pushing 18 million + souls -- and projects here have been postponed or cancelled altogether in record numbers. Edmonton, locally, and Alberta generally will come out of the post-COVID era just fine and the projects listed on Skyrise Cities will be dwarfed by new projects for the Alberta Market. For someone who has built a career on prognosticating "the City scene", your crystal ball is surely clouded. And don't tell me that you know better what is going on in the "other" Canadian market places. One of our team members -- Douglas Cardinal -- now based in Ottawa (
where he relocated to manage the Canadian History Museum) has had a number of Toronto projects postponed or cancelled altogether.
In sum, these kind of naive comments that are baseless and misguided are typically not even worth commenting on -- except for the fact that they can lure others on the site into your self-made world of doom and gloom. I don't know why you are so anti-Edmonton -- but I have my suspicions -- I don't imagine that many here are truly interested in your ramblings about how great things are in Toronto or Kelowna or Vancouver -- especially as compared to Edmonton.