[JNO1]

I would love to see NQ take over or amalgamate (or whatever) with Women Building Futures (WBF) and Dub's incredible WBF expansion project proceed.

 

[David A]

While EPS is the second highest funded in the country, I find them somewhat ineffective and don't focus on the right things for a variety of reasons. They are only accountable to the province really (police commission can ask questions). They suffered lack of officers and absenteeism during the pandemic like any other employer. At one time over half of their officers where on leave.

But now we're past that, province has provided money for more than 50 new officers and yet they still refuse to really implement any kind of community policing program. They openly admit they forgot how to do it, most of their officers have less than 3 1/2 years experience. They also just don't' want to do it. It's tough work and it's less efficient. But it's what businesses and community say they want, what they were doing 5 years ago. They are responsive when you talk to them, and being a front line officer is certainly a very tough job, especially in the core.

We have a lot of front line social services concentrated Downtown which attract disorder. We don't have an updated Public Safety Bylaw to persuade anyone from doing drugs wherever they want. There's a lot of behaviors that's simply going unregulated. The province has opened 10,000 new drug treatment spaces since 2019, and tripled the capacity of shelters last year. It's not perfect by any means but it's not nothing. Just allowing any kind of behaviors in important visitor, business, cultural areas like CBD, transit, parks, etc is just not tolerable to the average citizen.

I never see any police in the parts of downtown I go regularly, except in City Centre Mall. So yes one part of the problem is the lack of a real community policing program downtown.

At this point after several years of this, we are still just responding to many of these problems very reactively rather than trying to deal with them in a more proactive way.

 

[archited]

I have hunch that Norquest will have a major announcement on their new 15-storey building in the spring of 2025 on land that they already own across 108th Avenue. AND I expect this will be tied to an announcement by Maclab on the project south of 102nd Avenue on the east side of 108th Street.

 

[StoneCutter099]

I have hunch that Norquest will have a major announcement on their new 15-storey building in the spring of 2025 on land that they already own across 108th Avenue. AND I expect this will be tied to an announcement by Maclab on the project south of 102nd Avenue on the east side of 108th Street.

What do you mean by "...tied to an announcement by Maclab...?"

 

[archited]

I mean @StoneCutter099 the two bodies are in discussions one with the other re support housing for NorQuest so that the NorQuest effort can better focus on classrooms and support offices (Faculty and Staff) -- a cleaner ask to the current Provincial "government".

 

[chrisvazquez7]

Second hand from a few, but similar to MacEwan, real concerns about theft, inappropriate use of facilities, trespassing and open drug use.

It’s weird, I’m seeing the opposite. I live in the North Edge and every time I cut through the MacEwan or NorQuest campuses I notice how clean they are and how I don’t see many signs of homelessness. I assume it’s because they have regular security patrols. But I’m not a student at either institution so maybe I’m not seeing the whole picture…

 

[Greenspace]

10245 - 109 STREET NW Plan B2 Blk 8 Lot 110 - Major Development Permit​

External ID
537839540-002
Job Type
Major Development Permit
Description
To construct exterior alterations to the Site (NorQuest College).
Applicant
GEC ARCHITECTURE
Status
Intake Review
Class of Permit

Create Date
November 1, 2024
Approval Date

Location
10245 - 109 STREET NW Plan B2 Blk 8 Lot 110
Neighbourhood
DOWNTOWN

 

[archited]

...and so the next Phase begins.

 

[degrandprix]

10245 - 109 STREET NW Plan B2 Blk 8 Lot 110 - Major Development Permit​

External ID
537839540-002
Job Type
Major Development Permit
Description
To construct exterior alterations to the Site (NorQuest College).

I thought they were demolishing this building?

 

[archited]

Not for this building -- it is a substantial 3-storey building. But more significantly GEC Architects is going to convert this into an architectural masterpiece (see what they did at UofA with the former dental building) and, as well, this marks a territorial grab that takes NorQuest over to 109th Street and starts to block off what the future campus will grow into. I imagine their 15-storey Academic building will be next.

 

[degrandprix]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839372454067663069

On Wednesday, September 18, we held an event to officially kick off the demolition of our newest downtown Edmonton campus addition—the former Calder Bateman building at 10241 109 Street NW!

Sorry if I'm missing something but aren't 10245 and 10241 the same building?

 

[_urbanite]

According to City of Edmonton - Slim Maps, the development permit for 10945 looks like it's the small parking lot between the old Champs Boxing building and the Calder Bateman Building (red box).

Here's the permit to demolish the CB building (10241 - 109 ST)

Major Development Permit

Reference Id: Job No 521596319-002 Description: To demolish the Calder Batement building Location: 10241 - 109 STREET NW Plan B2 Blk 8 Lots 108-109 Applicant: DELNOR CONSTRUCTION LTD Status: Issued Create Date: 2024/07/30 Neighbourhood: DOWNTOWN Issue Date: 2024/09/12

 

[degrandprix]

I see, thanks for clarifying. The terminology is confusing on the permit for 10245, it says "to construct exterior alterations" which to me sounds like modifications to an existing building. Interested to see what ends up happening here!

 

[Stevey_G]

Not for this building -- it is a substantial 3-storey building. But more significantly GEC Architects is going to convert this into an architectural masterpiece (see what they did at UofA with the former dental building) and, as well, this marks a territorial grab that takes NorQuest over to 109th Street and starts to block off what the future campus will grow into. I imagine their 15-storey Academic building will be next.

That'd be cool to see, any idea when renderings come out?

 

[supaflyryguy]

Kinda frustrating to see a serviceable building getting demolished when Norquest is surrounded by a sea of gravel surface lots that would all be closer to the coming LRT stations.