What do you think of this project?

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David A said:
To summarize, it is an ambitious project (I think overly so in this case) for a difficult, in many ways, location by a company without experience with this sort of thing.

So, I think the chances of it happening are slim. I also think the Quarters and the city would be better served by focusing on more realistic projects on some of the empty lots north of this.
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I am forwarding your comment on to the PTBs at Alldritt -- I am sure they will be happy to take count of your deep wisdom.
 
bodsbods9090 said:
Would rather see 3 or 4, 20 to 40 story buildings (condos. hotel, apartment) go up in this area over one mammoth project to be honest. Would add a lot more to the area, IMO.
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IanO said:
I'd rather see this massive tower along with a bunch of 4-6 storey throughout the rest of the Quarters.
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I feel like you can't go wrong with either, just get stuff built!

My take on it is that a nice TOD in the Quarters with 3 or 4 towers would be better for the Quarters, however an iconic and recognizable tower for Edmonton on the same stretch of Jasper Ave as Hotel Mac and the convention centre would be better and more exciting for the city in the long run as long as you add in those low-midrise buildings in the Quarters to fill out the empty lots and keep more foot traffic in the area.
 
I didn't chose to come in here and admonish anyone who has not developed to my expectation. As long as a developer does not downgrade us like REGENCY, there is no need to be childest and blatanly attempt to deface someone. Regency is fair game FOR THEY ASKED FOR IT.
 
Edmontonian said:
I feel like you can't go wrong with either, just get stuff built!

My take on it is that a nice TOD in the Quarters with 3 or 4 towers would be better for the Quarters, however an iconic and recognizable tower for Edmonton on the same stretch of Jasper Ave as Hotel Mac and the convention centre would be better and more exciting for the city in the long run as long as you add in those low-midrise buildings in the Quarters to fill out the empty lots and keep more foot traffic in the area.
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Kinda, sorta.

It's a bit of a Frankenstein, but I want a very dense, but low-rise Quarters... however this could be something special.
 
IanO said:
Kinda, sorta.

It's a bit of a Frankenstein, but I want a very dense, but low-rise Quarters... however this could be something special.
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I agree with you on that we already have our downtown and uptown (Oliver). The Quarters is the perfect place to have some nice low rise buildings with cool CRU's and unique restaurants, well maintained and nice streetscapes, besides it's already our Arts district.

With that being said I don't think it's going to happen. We already have this proposal, the Hat at 5 corners is already built, the Chinese Elders buildings have some height to them, and considering some of the past proposals in the area such as Civic Quarters, RedBrick Civic Tower (both part of the competition for Edmonton Tower iirc) and Artist Quarters it seems like developers are looking for height in the area. Hopefully the finished product of the Quarters is a nice mix between what we have in downtown and what we have around Whyte ave.

To add to that I kind of wish the new rendition of this tower was built elsewhere, the original proposal with kind of a skinny Burj Khalifa style would've been iconic and awesome over here but the new proposal is just a nice looking office building thats going to stick out like a thumb. This is more than twice the height of The Pearl which looked a little out of place when it was first built. The BMO site that stupid regency owns would be better for this honestly.
 
My understanding is that Aldritt has a yard full of early 20th century bricks stored for the purpose of using them for this tower's podium. If they can build a glass tower and have a similar heritage podium to Kelly Ramsey's (Enbridge), it'd be perfect for the area..Tower would be truly iconic. Stantec could have been that but blew it with their boxy, no frills design.
 
cpnfantstk said:
My understanding is that Aldritt has a yard full of early 20th century bricks stored for the purpose of using them for this tower's podium. If they can build a glass tower and have a similar heritage podium to Kelly Ramsey's (Enbridge), it'd be perfect for the area..Tower would be truly iconic. Stantec could have been that but blew it with their boxy, no frills design.
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I love Stantec to be honest with ya. I only wish they would have kept the lighting features. That aside, it’s an engineering marvel to be able to stack one tower onto the side of another, and the boxey, utilitarian aesthetic perfectly embodies the home of an engineering firm.
 
cpnfantstk said:
My understanding is that Aldritt has a yard full of early 20th century bricks stored for the purpose of using them for this tower's podium. If they can build a glass tower and have a similar heritage podium to Kelly Ramsey's (Enbridge), it'd be perfect for the area..Tower would be truly iconic. Stantec could have been that but blew it with their boxy, no frills design.
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Iconic cost money, and we are NOT A CITY TO BE BUILDING ICONIC for we are not yet a city of corporates or highflyers that would throw out cash for the purpose of being associated at that level. Regardless what each of us here expect out of "icon", I live with realization we are an above average city and come to the understanding that Iconic will never happen here. Show me an Iconic in Vancouver where millionaires and billionaires around the world have chosen that location as their playground? If Vancouver does not have that, why would you expect that here in a city that is not even WHITE COLLAR?
 
Whattagame said:
I wonder if that was the strategy. The first version was excellent, but they needed to change it for whatever reason. So they throw out that garbage second rendering so that number three looks great by comparison.
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Ya that second one is butt ugly compared to the first rendering! 🤢
 
Let's be honest, the first version was a pie in the sky rendering that was not ever going to get built. The new version is much more realistic, especially since it was previously stated some time ago that this is a challenging site to build on from a geotechnical standpoint.
 
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