bodsbods9090
Active Member
Both Jasper House and The North lots are for sale. So maybe someone is in the market for some prime downtown real estate!!!
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archited
Senior Member
Someone better step up quickly before the Jasper House land gets folded into the downtown Park concept. It is an excellent condo site, but is probably over-priced.
Valveman
New Member
... just like the original project (imho)
Likely some of the land costs were buried into the unit pricing.
IanO
Superstar
Ahem... wrong Jasper House
_urbanite
Senior Member
archited
Senior Member
I thought that Edmonton had purchased it and added it to its Warehouse District Park site.
IanO
Superstar
That they have.
Platinum107
Senior Member
Well that's a lot better of a fate than some flaky out of city developer having it imo.
EdmTrekker
Senior Member
I would welcome out if Province and country developers and design teams.
Platinum107
Senior Member
Key word: Flaky ones like Lamb was, not all of them.
I don't think Lamb came here with the intention of not building anything. Market conditions and perhaps to a lesser extent misinterpretation of the market played a pretty big role. If any developer comes here and has troubles because of factors out of their control, we should be showing some empathy and saying that sucks both for them and for our City since we lost out on good development. I imagine there are other less public developers that were impacted by COVID as well.
Back In Town
New Member
Hi All,
My first post ever on the site though I have been checking it 3-4 times a week for 18 months now.
I am agnostic about local/external developers and designers. As long as the are reliable and do good work. I have to say, however, that this is one of the few developments I did not like. It was pleasing to the eye in many ways, and filled a crater of nothingness in that part of the city, but it was built like a renaissance palace in an Italian town: a walled tower, with terrible street activation. My bias - and its a bias - is street activation, multi-use, etc. even with lower heights (as low as 3 -5 stories) is better than a good looking tower that creates more dead space (sure, more bodies, but those who hurry past the site as there 'nothing to see or do'). Our town is still weak on that - we some exemplars and some that miss the mark (Falcon Towers - argh) - but no need to stop trying.
'Might' in the end make the park even better. Fingers crossed.
Cheers
Mark
My first post ever on the site though I have been checking it 3-4 times a week for 18 months now.
I am agnostic about local/external developers and designers. As long as the are reliable and do good work. I have to say, however, that this is one of the few developments I did not like. It was pleasing to the eye in many ways, and filled a crater of nothingness in that part of the city, but it was built like a renaissance palace in an Italian town: a walled tower, with terrible street activation. My bias - and its a bias - is street activation, multi-use, etc. even with lower heights (as low as 3 -5 stories) is better than a good looking tower that creates more dead space (sure, more bodies, but those who hurry past the site as there 'nothing to see or do'). Our town is still weak on that - we some exemplars and some that miss the mark (Falcon Towers - argh) - but no need to stop trying.
'Might' in the end make the park even better. Fingers crossed.
Cheers
Mark
Kaizen
Senior Member
Welcome to the forum @Back In Town.
I liked the tower design but the podium offered little if any street appeal and no retail. I'm glad the city bought the land to add to the park, win win.
I liked the tower design but the podium offered little if any street appeal and no retail. I'm glad the city bought the land to add to the park, win win.
MetroEd
Active Member
I would too because in my opinion only, some of our high rise building designs are rather drab and could use some outside eyes
