MacLac
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Lot big enough to hold a tower?
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bodsbods9090
Senior Member
Probably a nice 6-7 story tower can go there...doesn't seem to work hi-rise wise downtown right now.Lot big enough to hold a tower?
Avenuer
Senior Member
A Cora's is opening up in Campus Tower.
johnnyboy
Active Member
This lot was completely cleared when I drove by today as well.
Avenuer
Senior Member
PCL is planning on building a seventh office building at their 99 Street campus, will be just west of their 'main' building on the paved lot between it and the rail line.
MacLac
Senior Member
PCL is in the process of demo'ing these 2 buildings and ONLY building a new parkade, no office building from what I've heard.......if they are - GREAT!
*EDIT* Yes indeed, a new office structure will be under construction AFTER the new parkade gets built. My apologies......
*EDIT* Yes indeed, a new office structure will be under construction AFTER the new parkade gets built. My apologies......
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Avenuer
Senior Member
I can confirm the current owner is looking at a 'full' conversion of CN Tower to residential in the realm of 340 units.
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
Well with all the residential next door, it would make lots of sense.
fromyeg
Active Member
What are the chances we see this parking lot developed in the next 5 years? Do we know who owns it?
archited
Senior Member
That would be in the realm of 14 or 15 units per floor which doesn't begin to make sense to me.
wormwood
Active Member
Curious, why not?
husky
Active Member
Probably less than zero. Isn't this part of the galleria owned lands?
archited
Senior Member
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.
David A
Senior Member
Veering off topic here, but speaking of the Kipnes family I just saw this in the news.
www.ualberta.ca
Dianne and Irving Kipnes Health Research Institute
www.ualberta.ca