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Well with all the residential next door, it would make lots of sense.
That would be in the realm of 14 or 15 units per floor which doesn't begin to make sense to me.
Curious, why not?
Probably less than zero. Isn't this part of the galleria owned lands?
For one -- the more units there are the more extra-unit space has to be devoted to circulation and as Ken has already pointed out the distance from core to exterior wall is already minimal -- unit layouts would necessarily be very inefficient. So unless the owners are looking to build-out the equivalent of army barracks (maybe for students) I don't see the conversion case in the direction that would support those kinds of occupancy numbers. It would also be disrespectful to a legacy building. There are better solutions. Qualico is showing how upper-end design is promising in this area. BTW the adjacent lands are owned by the Irv Kipnes family; in his development heyday Irv was a noted outside-the-box thinker; for example he was the developer who converted the Ashdown Hardware Building to the Boardwalk on 103rd Street and 102nd Avenue (though it was much different then than it is today). I think the Kipnes' were disappointed when they couldn't pull the University of Alberta into a kind of partnership arrangement for their downtown Galleria concept which would have converted that land site into a functional use other than parking.
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