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Giddyup @Das Ponto, get that camera working. see if you can catch up to @chrisvazquez7 who is doing an excellent job in @Daveography's displacement.
Das Ponto
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I will say he definitely is!
Platinum107
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Someone mentioned on the connect2edmonton forum about Stantec that The tower may actually be around 68 stories, as there are still a couple more floors for mechanical. Also I just checked the ICE DISTRICT website Availability and floorplans page and they have 68 floors listed for Stantec tower, sooo.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
http://icedistrictproperties.com/offices/stantec-tower/availability-floor-plans/
http://icedistrictproperties.com/offices/stantec-tower/availability-floor-plans/
Airboy
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There will be 2 mechanical and 1 elevator floor from what I have seen.
Platinum107
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cool beans 
So 69 floors then? If this is the case, then the title of the thread should be changed to: Edmonton | Stantec Tower | 251m | 69s | ONE Properties | Stantec, Unless there is some sort of thing with skyscrapers where the mechanical floors aren't listed.
So 69 floors then? If this is the case, then the title of the thread should be changed to: Edmonton | Stantec Tower | 251m | 69s | ONE Properties | Stantec, Unless there is some sort of thing with skyscrapers where the mechanical floors aren't listed. 
@Platinum107 Not typically included, correct.
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bonk
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The crane has been raised again. Eyeballing it, it looks like the jib is a few floors above the final height of the building. Could this be the last time they raise it? (Edit: No! They raised it again by 2 sections July 21 and added a final brace.)
I made a similar prediction for JW Marriot, but they ended up raising it well above the final height. I guess they want plenty of room for tall parts of the mechanical penthouse.
I think we currently have the tallest free-standing structure in Western Canada until Flin Flon regains the title!
(Edit: Free-standing's not the right classification since the crane's attached to the building and it's not one structure; I don't know what you'd call it.)
I made a similar prediction for JW Marriot, but they ended up raising it well above the final height. I guess they want plenty of room for tall parts of the mechanical penthouse.
I think we currently have the tallest free-standing structure in Western Canada until Flin Flon regains the title!
(Edit: Free-standing's not the right classification since the crane's attached to the building and it's not one structure; I don't know what you'd call it.)
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archited
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I think the next floor pour puts Stantec into the '60s.
Jarodsc17
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More tenant fit-ups underway.
PERMIT_DATE June 26, 2018
PERMIT_NUMBER
JOB_CATEGORY Commercial Final
ADDRESS 2300, 10220 - 103 AVENUE NW
NEIGHBOURHOOD DOWNTOWN
JOB_DESCRIPTION To construct interior alterations of two floors in the newly constructed Stantec Tower (PWC Offices, 22nd and 23rd floor). No previous tenant/construction on these floors.
BUILDING_TYPE Office Buildings (520)
WORK_TYPE (03) Interior Alterations
FLOOR_AREA 46,475
CONSTRUCTION_VALUE 2,500,000
ZONING AED
PERMIT_DATE June 26, 2018
PERMIT_NUMBER
JOB_CATEGORY Commercial Final
ADDRESS 2300, 10220 - 103 AVENUE NW
NEIGHBOURHOOD DOWNTOWN
JOB_DESCRIPTION To construct interior alterations of two floors in the newly constructed Stantec Tower (PWC Offices, 22nd and 23rd floor). No previous tenant/construction on these floors.
BUILDING_TYPE Office Buildings (520)
WORK_TYPE (03) Interior Alterations
FLOOR_AREA 46,475
CONSTRUCTION_VALUE 2,500,000
ZONING AED
archited
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I am including here a brief description of Los Angeles' Staple Center (L.A. Kings - Hockey; L.A. Lakers & L.A. Clippers - Basketball; various high-profile concerts; and the adjoining L.A Live - hospitality mecca) so that one might imagine what the long-term prospects are for the Ice District in Edmonton (if OEG doesn't start cheapening out at every turn). The following is quoted from DT News and an article written by sean@downtownnews.com
In the mid-1990s, South Park was mostly a dead zone, particularly after dark. That changed somewhat in 1999, when Staples Center opened, but aside from game and concert nights, or during big events at the Convention Center, there was still little activity in the community.
Indeed, on any given evening fans would routinely drive to catch a Lakers, Clippers or Kings game, and when the event ended, hop right back into the car and head straight home, or to another part of Los Angeles to continue their evening festivities.
Looking at the bustle in the area today, it’s almost impossible to believe how quiet things once were. In 2018 the blocks around Staples Center are an investment hot zone, with two $1 billion-plus mixed-use projects (Metropolis and Oceanwide Plaza), a pair of sparkly residential buildings in the final phase of construction (Circa) and a plethora of bars and restaurants.
Few of those would exist, say longtime Downtown observers, without developer Anschutz Entertainment Group’s second huge investment in the community, L.A. Live. The project delivered restaurants such as Fleming’s Steakhouse, the Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill, and Katsuya, and after-dark destinations including the Conga Room and the bowling alley Lucky Strike. It gave Downtown the 140,000-square-foot Regal Cinemas with its 14 screens, and the Grammy Museum.
“It really has created a destination where there was no destination before,” said Carol Schatz, president and CEO of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District.
Dan Rosenfeld, an urban planning expert and consultant, and a veteran of the Downtown development scene, agreed. He said L.A. Live has played an important role in helping make Downtown more of a destination and less of a pit stop.
“If you were to write a textbook on revitalizing a downtown, there would be a chapter on Staples and L.A. Live,” Rosenfeld remarked.
The components of L.A. Live arrived in phases beginning in the summer of 2008, and AEG this month marked the campus’ 10th birthday. A coterie of prominent Downtown stakeholders showed up to an event at Microsoft Square on the afternoon of June 8. Dan Beckerman, president and CEO of the company, marveled at the evolution of the area.
“It’s incredible to think about this spot and what it was then, and what it is now today,” Beckerman said during the ceremony.
While L.A. Live is routinely thronged with people, particularly before sporting events, when AEG and its partners began developing the idea for the complex, there were numerous doubters. After all, the neighborhood was hardly a destination. Then there’s the timing of its debut: L.A. Live opened smack in the middle of the worst recession to hit the country in decades.
A Gamble of Sorts
The L.A. Live campus measures 5.6 million square feet. It is part of the more than $4 billion that AEG has invested in Downtown through the complex, Staples Center, the 1,001-room Ritz-Carlton/J.W. Marriott hotel and the Convention Center (which it operates through a contract with the city).
The project broke ground in September 2005. The first phase, which included the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre and the 40,000-square-foot open-air Nokia Plaza (both now bear Microsoft’s name), was completed in 2008.
At that time of the debut the country was in the throes of a major economic downturn, and in Downtown Los Angeles numerous residential and other projects had screeched to a halt. Regardless, AEG, which at the time was helmed by President and CEO Tim Leiweke, was confident in the long-term success of the sports and entertainment hub.
In a 2008 interview with Los Angeles Downtown News, Leiweke took the long view.
“If we were building a project that was for two years I’d be very nervous, because this is a bad period of time to be spreading risk out over a short period of time,” Leiweke said in the interview. “That said, this project will be around long after all of us leave. So we look at this as a marathon, not a sprint.”
Leiweke had been the public face of the company as AEG sought city approvals for L.A. Live, and also was front and center when the developer repeatedly tried to get the hotel off the ground; it saw a series of investment partners back out.
Leiweke was additionally in the spotlight as AEG pursued Farmers Field, a 70,000-seat football stadium proposed for the heart of Downtown, adjacent to the Convention Center. Although AEG reportedly spent more than $50 million on the project, including preparing a 10,000-page environmental impact report, there was never a groundbreaking, and the NFL ultimately opted to support a stadium in Inglewood. In 2013 Leiweke exited the company in a dispute that turned bitter.
Beckerman, who had previously served as both a chief financial officer and chief operating officer for AEG, was his replacement, and in the years since has exhibited a much more low-key style of leadership. Still, like his predecessor, he realized the potential of L.A. Live.
While the complex is known for its entertainment venues, it functions as a significant employment base as well. AEG is housed there, and ESPN has offices and a major broadcast hub. Herbalife also has offices in the space.
Altogether, L.A. Live has approximately 333,000 square feet of office space. In 2010 the $1 billion hotel opened, helping the Convention Center land some trade events it had previously missed out on. The hotel, and the overall improving economy and vibrancy of South Park, attracted other convention and tourism-related projects, including a Hotel Indigo at Metropolis, an under-construction Park Hyatt at Oceanwide Plaza [Update: This was originally and incorrectly listed as a W Hotel], and AEG’s own recently announced 40-story expansion of the J.W. Marriott.
Beckerman said the goal was always to create an attraction that could act as an entertainment hub for Downtown, one that drew families, sports fans and foodies.
“When you look at the great cities across the world, they all have a very vibrant city center, and in L.A. we’ve always sort of lacked that,” Beckerman said in an interview with Downtown News. “There are a lot of great places to go in L.A. but it has always lacked a center. We knew that we could be one of those great cities.”
Community Investment
A decade after it opened, AEG’s gamble appears to have paid off in terms of crowds and events: The company estimates that more than 204 million people have visited the campus since it debuted. It has hosted a litany of activities, everything from the Emmy, Grammy, ESPY and MTV Music Awards to WWE Summerslam and, this year, the sixth iteration of the BET Experience.
It has also been the site of more than 125 red carpet film premieres — including huge events tied to The Hunger Games — and a collection of community activities, among them happenings for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. Each winter it holds an ice skating rink, complete with a giant tree. In 2009, the inauguration of Barack Obama was screened live on the plaza’s jumbo screens, drawing thousands of people.
Rosenfeld praised the project for its role as an economic, business and residential propellant. He remembered what the area was like before it arrived.
“It was so dead,” Rosenfeld recalled. “Staples and L.A. Live was one of the major turning points.”
Schatz said that developers have taken note of the foot traffic in the area. She said that as L.A. Live hit its stride, investors began to understand that once undesirable areas in Downtown were ripe for development.
“It has had a transformative impact,” Schatz said. “Not only has Downtown benefited enormously, I believe all of Los Angeles has.”
City Councilman Curren Price, whose Ninth District includes L.A. Live and the Convention Center, and extends down through South L.A., applauded AEG’s investment in South Park.
Price, who is chair of the City Council’s Economic Development Committee, said that AEG has been “an incredible catalyst” for both the convention and tourism industry in Downtown. At the June 8 event, a city official said that convention attendance has increased by 115% since AEG opened L.A. Live.
“We’re so grateful for the commitment and the faith that AEG has had in our community,” Price said.
Beckerman and others predicted that the investment that has followed the debut of L.A. Live will continue into the future. Beckerman said more than $10 billion worth of investments have been made in the area since L.A. Live opened, with residential, shopping, office, hotel and other projects. He hopes the crowds will continue to come, and that AEG will have an even stronger partnership with the city of Los Angeles and Downtown.
In the mid-1990s, South Park was mostly a dead zone, particularly after dark. That changed somewhat in 1999, when Staples Center opened, but aside from game and concert nights, or during big events at the Convention Center, there was still little activity in the community.
Indeed, on any given evening fans would routinely drive to catch a Lakers, Clippers or Kings game, and when the event ended, hop right back into the car and head straight home, or to another part of Los Angeles to continue their evening festivities.
Looking at the bustle in the area today, it’s almost impossible to believe how quiet things once were. In 2018 the blocks around Staples Center are an investment hot zone, with two $1 billion-plus mixed-use projects (Metropolis and Oceanwide Plaza), a pair of sparkly residential buildings in the final phase of construction (Circa) and a plethora of bars and restaurants.
Few of those would exist, say longtime Downtown observers, without developer Anschutz Entertainment Group’s second huge investment in the community, L.A. Live. The project delivered restaurants such as Fleming’s Steakhouse, the Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill, and Katsuya, and after-dark destinations including the Conga Room and the bowling alley Lucky Strike. It gave Downtown the 140,000-square-foot Regal Cinemas with its 14 screens, and the Grammy Museum.
“It really has created a destination where there was no destination before,” said Carol Schatz, president and CEO of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District.
Dan Rosenfeld, an urban planning expert and consultant, and a veteran of the Downtown development scene, agreed. He said L.A. Live has played an important role in helping make Downtown more of a destination and less of a pit stop.
“If you were to write a textbook on revitalizing a downtown, there would be a chapter on Staples and L.A. Live,” Rosenfeld remarked.
The components of L.A. Live arrived in phases beginning in the summer of 2008, and AEG this month marked the campus’ 10th birthday. A coterie of prominent Downtown stakeholders showed up to an event at Microsoft Square on the afternoon of June 8. Dan Beckerman, president and CEO of the company, marveled at the evolution of the area.
“It’s incredible to think about this spot and what it was then, and what it is now today,” Beckerman said during the ceremony.
While L.A. Live is routinely thronged with people, particularly before sporting events, when AEG and its partners began developing the idea for the complex, there were numerous doubters. After all, the neighborhood was hardly a destination. Then there’s the timing of its debut: L.A. Live opened smack in the middle of the worst recession to hit the country in decades.
A Gamble of Sorts
The L.A. Live campus measures 5.6 million square feet. It is part of the more than $4 billion that AEG has invested in Downtown through the complex, Staples Center, the 1,001-room Ritz-Carlton/J.W. Marriott hotel and the Convention Center (which it operates through a contract with the city).
The project broke ground in September 2005. The first phase, which included the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre and the 40,000-square-foot open-air Nokia Plaza (both now bear Microsoft’s name), was completed in 2008.
At that time of the debut the country was in the throes of a major economic downturn, and in Downtown Los Angeles numerous residential and other projects had screeched to a halt. Regardless, AEG, which at the time was helmed by President and CEO Tim Leiweke, was confident in the long-term success of the sports and entertainment hub.
In a 2008 interview with Los Angeles Downtown News, Leiweke took the long view.
“If we were building a project that was for two years I’d be very nervous, because this is a bad period of time to be spreading risk out over a short period of time,” Leiweke said in the interview. “That said, this project will be around long after all of us leave. So we look at this as a marathon, not a sprint.”
Leiweke had been the public face of the company as AEG sought city approvals for L.A. Live, and also was front and center when the developer repeatedly tried to get the hotel off the ground; it saw a series of investment partners back out.
Leiweke was additionally in the spotlight as AEG pursued Farmers Field, a 70,000-seat football stadium proposed for the heart of Downtown, adjacent to the Convention Center. Although AEG reportedly spent more than $50 million on the project, including preparing a 10,000-page environmental impact report, there was never a groundbreaking, and the NFL ultimately opted to support a stadium in Inglewood. In 2013 Leiweke exited the company in a dispute that turned bitter.
Beckerman, who had previously served as both a chief financial officer and chief operating officer for AEG, was his replacement, and in the years since has exhibited a much more low-key style of leadership. Still, like his predecessor, he realized the potential of L.A. Live.
While the complex is known for its entertainment venues, it functions as a significant employment base as well. AEG is housed there, and ESPN has offices and a major broadcast hub. Herbalife also has offices in the space.
Altogether, L.A. Live has approximately 333,000 square feet of office space. In 2010 the $1 billion hotel opened, helping the Convention Center land some trade events it had previously missed out on. The hotel, and the overall improving economy and vibrancy of South Park, attracted other convention and tourism-related projects, including a Hotel Indigo at Metropolis, an under-construction Park Hyatt at Oceanwide Plaza [Update: This was originally and incorrectly listed as a W Hotel], and AEG’s own recently announced 40-story expansion of the J.W. Marriott.
Beckerman said the goal was always to create an attraction that could act as an entertainment hub for Downtown, one that drew families, sports fans and foodies.
“When you look at the great cities across the world, they all have a very vibrant city center, and in L.A. we’ve always sort of lacked that,” Beckerman said in an interview with Downtown News. “There are a lot of great places to go in L.A. but it has always lacked a center. We knew that we could be one of those great cities.”
Community Investment
A decade after it opened, AEG’s gamble appears to have paid off in terms of crowds and events: The company estimates that more than 204 million people have visited the campus since it debuted. It has hosted a litany of activities, everything from the Emmy, Grammy, ESPY and MTV Music Awards to WWE Summerslam and, this year, the sixth iteration of the BET Experience.
It has also been the site of more than 125 red carpet film premieres — including huge events tied to The Hunger Games — and a collection of community activities, among them happenings for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. Each winter it holds an ice skating rink, complete with a giant tree. In 2009, the inauguration of Barack Obama was screened live on the plaza’s jumbo screens, drawing thousands of people.
Rosenfeld praised the project for its role as an economic, business and residential propellant. He remembered what the area was like before it arrived.
“It was so dead,” Rosenfeld recalled. “Staples and L.A. Live was one of the major turning points.”
Schatz said that developers have taken note of the foot traffic in the area. She said that as L.A. Live hit its stride, investors began to understand that once undesirable areas in Downtown were ripe for development.
“It has had a transformative impact,” Schatz said. “Not only has Downtown benefited enormously, I believe all of Los Angeles has.”
City Councilman Curren Price, whose Ninth District includes L.A. Live and the Convention Center, and extends down through South L.A., applauded AEG’s investment in South Park.
Price, who is chair of the City Council’s Economic Development Committee, said that AEG has been “an incredible catalyst” for both the convention and tourism industry in Downtown. At the June 8 event, a city official said that convention attendance has increased by 115% since AEG opened L.A. Live.
“We’re so grateful for the commitment and the faith that AEG has had in our community,” Price said.
Beckerman and others predicted that the investment that has followed the debut of L.A. Live will continue into the future. Beckerman said more than $10 billion worth of investments have been made in the area since L.A. Live opened, with residential, shopping, office, hotel and other projects. He hopes the crowds will continue to come, and that AEG will have an even stronger partnership with the city of Los Angeles and Downtown.
