[David A]

Good point - it's an 80's thing - Bee Bell Bakery was wildly popular in a building next door, I believe - that burned down - this building is the re-birth of it. Subsequently, it closed down what seems like 20 years ago.....and varying establishments have come and gone. It was "THE" place to go if you wanted an expensive birthday or anniversary cake etc.

I don't remember the previous building next door it may have been before I was around, but when I moved to the area Bee Bell was very popular, a destination location in Old Strathcona and I believe for a number of years.

After it closed the space was vacant for a while and couple other things moved into the building since then, but the exterior of the nice, distinctive building hasn't changed much. It is on 80th Ave, between 104 and 105 Streets, just south east of the new Hat building under construction now (west of ATB on Calgary Trail).

 

[fromyeg]

Rezoning proposal to allow for a car dealership north of Home Depot on Gateway Blvd.

Currently an empty lot.

 

[MacLac]

We'll take it as that lot has been vacant for as long as I've been alive.......so yeah

 

[mcr]

At the same time, doesn't exactly jive with the Strathcona Junction ARP consolidation plans, even if it beats the decades old empty lot.

 

[northlands]

Anyone know any history of that site? Pretty prime piece of real estate to sit as an empty field for ages.

 

[degrandprix]

Would rather see this incoming car dealer take over the seemingly abandoned Derrick Dodge site just 2 blocks south of here. Better than nothing I guess

 

[husky]

Anyone know any history of that site? Pretty prime piece of real estate to sit as an empty field for ages.

Former railyard I believe

 

[thommyjo]

Edgemont with some ugly apartments

Is this just a former prison design with some random lime green and blue boxes added to balconies?

Oh, and this is a 3min drive further west from the valley line terminus that’s next to 0 housing and a golf course.

Our city planners are the bestest.

 

[thommyjo]

Edgemont with some ugly apartments

Is this just a former prison design with some random lime green and blue boxes added to balconies?

Oh, and this is a 3min drive further west from the valley line terminus that’s next to 0 housing and a golf course.

Our city planners are the bestest.

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In red: our 5 billion dollar train line and terminus.

In green: over 2000 units of housing, a half billion dollar rec centre and library, multiple major shopping centres, 3 junior high schools.

Is this one of the greatest oversights in transit design our city has made?

University and kingsway ground level crossings are up there. But this is opportunity cost to the moon…

 

[Edmcowboy11]

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Rezoning proposal to allow for a car dealership north of Home Depot on Gateway Blvd.

Currently an empty lot.

So is this where a new crosswalk has just recently been installed?

 

[policyenthusiast]

Edgemont with some ugly apartments

Is this just a former prison design with some random lime green and blue boxes added to balconies?

Oh, and this is a 3min drive further west from the valley line terminus that’s next to 0 housing and a golf course.

Our city planners are the bestest.

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I'm interested in seeing how these buildings age. Generally, bright exterior paint ends up looking like absolute hot dog water after a few years.

 

[fromyeg]

Work on Beljan’s Ritchie Hub on Whyte Ave is well underway.

Eastbound Whyte Ave recently closed for utility work.

Not sure what’ll be going in here.

I assume they’ll put in a BRT stop at Whyte and 96th St?

It would be nice if there were some streetscape improvements on Whyte between 96th and 99th St, but don’t think it’s part of the Old Strathcona Public Realm renewal. Maybe one day.

 

[constance_chlore]

8636 108th St NW in Garneau. I'm not exactly sure what the deal is—I didn't take a close look at the signage—but from searching around online, it looks to be a project called Holland House. By the looks of it, four townhomes with secondary suites?

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[Barnaby]

8 stairwells of wasted space. I like the product given the current restrictions, but I do think a lot of living space is being lost to the skinny townhouse design compared to what could be built with SES on the same lot.

Happy to see 8 homes where there was 2.

 

[constance_chlore]

8 stairwells of wasted space. I like the product given the current restrictions, but I do think a lot of living space is being lost to the skinny townhouse design compared to what could be built with SES on the same lot.

Happy to see 8 homes where there was 2.

Dumb question: Is this a product of legal restrictions alone? Couldn't this complex legally have had two staircases per building instead of four?