Omega Prime
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David A
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This is exactly the classic type of conflict of interest that the city administration loves to jump into like a pig in the mud and comes out looking like it. They want to minimize the cost, so the parking is above ground.
They want to maximize the value of the building, so they have to have parking. It does make some sense in a narrow self interested way, but not necessarily most beneficial to the surrounding community.
If this were a private developer, the city would probably be fighting against it, but as with snow removal and building industrial power facilities in the river valley, it is do as we say, don't do as we do to the rest of us.
New city council, but same old problems when it comes to self interest.
They want to maximize the value of the building, so they have to have parking. It does make some sense in a narrow self interested way, but not necessarily most beneficial to the surrounding community.
If this were a private developer, the city would probably be fighting against it, but as with snow removal and building industrial power facilities in the river valley, it is do as we say, don't do as we do to the rest of us.
New city council, but same old problems when it comes to self interest.
itom987
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The parkade will get my approval if they install CRUs on the main floor.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Not being considered. Just an ugly, basic parkade
occidentalcapital
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Crusaders lay out plans for $80M Event Centre
It’s a proposal that council might not be able to refuse.
www.sherwoodparknews.com
$80 million event centre proposed in Sherwood Park
CaptainBL
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Haha sometimes I feel like this city just defies doing things that would make sense for the better.
Gronk!
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There would have been mass protests outside city hall if they dared proposing such a parkade in downtown or Whyte Ave
_Citizen_Dane_
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Old St. Anthony's School is going up for sale as the ECSD consolidates its facilities. Would love to see someone like Beljan pick it up:
www.avisonyoung.ca
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www.avisonyoung.ca
itom987
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What did the building look like before that awful addition was built?
_Citizen_Dane_
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TAS
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Crusaders lay out plans for $80M Event Centre
It’s a proposal that council might not be able to refuse.
$80 million event centre proposed in Sherwood Park
Event centre will be nice facility for Sherwood Park. Don't really love that Edmonton Stingers basketball team would potentially be based out of there.
Expo Centre may not be great option where they are currently but at least it was accessible from an LRT stop or public transit versus East of city off Yellowhead Trail where only option will be to drive.
MattPT
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I didn’t want to post until we were done, but it’s taking much longer than expected lol. Here’s our tiny contribution to Edmonton infill 
thommyjo
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Congrats! Looks awesome. Are you planning to rent? Airbnb? For family?I didn’t want to post until we were done, but it’s taking much longer than expected lol. Here’s our tiny contribution to Edmonton infill
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Romanov
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Very cool. I am assuming this is somewhere in North Central Edmonton? Are you able to share the approximate cost and timeline to develop something like this?I didn’t want to post until we were done, but it’s taking much longer than expected lol. Here’s our tiny contribution to Edmonton infill
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MattPT
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Original plan was to move into the garage and Airbnb the main house, but it looks like we will be leaving Canada part time. So we will just rent the main house long term rather than Airbnb, and have the garage as our Canada home base.
Queen Mary Park. When we went to builders they were telling us 250-300, so we’ve been more or less doing everything ourselves. We were hoping to end up between 100-150! But I think we will end up somewhere 175-200. Ground conditions were shit and we went with screwpiles that ended up needing way more extensions than expected…that was first big expense. But also it was VERY hard to find trades that would take us seriously. I actually found a few different trades just riding around on my bicycle because no one would even bother answering my emails lol. We probably overpaid at every step along the way because everyone was so busy and we would only have one or two options that would even bother getting back to me. Also, even our first quote for lumber started at 12000, then went up to 20000, and when we finally were ready to buy it was at about 16000. More or less from this point on we can do everything ourselves so we will save a bit of money, but it will just be slow because I like working alone lol
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