Stony Plain Road

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This is a Thread to discuss Stony Plain Road's Many issues

 

[thommyjo]

I have no idea how you fix it honestly. The only thing going for it is LRT and high proximity to a lot of residents that would support quality commercial along it. If you plop a few west block developments, the communities would embrace it pretty quickly. But no one will invest in the area.

The city almost needs to do another grant type program. Give 10mil to 10 developers doing 6+ story projects along SPR with commercial bottoms. It’s a butt ton of money, but honestly might be the only way to save SPR from a crime/poverty death spiral.

 

[Gronk!]

Here are some ideas on how to fix Stony Plain Road:

• The Jasper Place Hotel needs to be put out of our misery and demolished, then replaced with a midrise development that is similar to the West Block.
• Same deal needs to happen with that retail strip that once housed Revolution Cycle. However, they should somehow retain and evolve Revolution Square since it will be a tourist draw.
• That shopping centre with London Drugs can use some infill housing to replace some of their acres of parking lot.
• The XXX store near 156 St may be gone but there are still too many payday loan stores, pawn shops and rub & tugs along that stretch of Stony Plain Road. Some incentives to move them wouldn't be out of the question.
• More trees, more parks and more greenery please!
• A basketball court and a skate park wouldn't hurt.

 

[mBertan]

Here are some ideas on how to fix Stony Plain Road:

• The Jasper Place Hotel needs to be put out of our misery and demolished, then replaced with a midrise development that is similar to the West Block.
• Same deal needs to happen with that retail strip that once housed Revolution Cycle. However, they should somehow retain and evolve Revolution Square since it will be a tourist draw.
• That shopping centre with London Drugs can use some infill housing to replace some of their acres of parking lot.
• The XXX store near 156 St may be gone but there are still too many payday loan stores, pawn shops and rub & tugs along that stretch of Stony Plain Road. Some incentives to move them wouldn't be out of the question.
• More trees, more parks and more greenery please!
• A basketball court and a skate park wouldn't hurt.

+ PoPo (foot / bike patrol)

 

[degrandprix]

Here are some ideas on how to fix Stony Plain Road:

• The Jasper Place Hotel needs to be put out of our misery and demolished, then replaced with a midrise development that is similar to the West Block.
• Same deal needs to happen with that retail strip that once housed Revolution Cycle. However, they should somehow retain and evolve Revolution Square since it will be a tourist draw.
• That shopping centre with London Drugs can use some infill housing to replace some of their acres of parking lot.
• The XXX store near 156 St may be gone but there are still too many payday loan stores, pawn shops and rub & tugs along that stretch of Stony Plain Road. Some incentives to move them wouldn't be out of the question.
• More trees, more parks and more greenery please!
• A basketball court and a skate park wouldn't hurt.

I was talking to one of the staff at Revolution about it and he said a developer had plans to do a big mixed-used building on the shopping centre site at 149th, but not for another 10 years or so.

 

[mBertan]

I was talking to one of the staff at Revolution about it and he said a developer had plans to do a big mixed-used building on the shopping centre site at 149th, but not for another 10 years or so.

RioCan Proposing Redevelopment of Jasper Gates | SkyriseEdmonton

RioCan is proposing to redevelop the Jasper Gates shopping centre into a transit-oriented development (TOD) with up to 1,000 residential units and 5,000 square-metres of retail space.

edmonton.skyrisecities.com

 

[thommyjo]

I was talking to one of the staff at Revolution about it and he said a developer had plans to do a big mixed-used building on the shopping centre site at 149th, but not for another 10 years or so.

RioCan Proposing Redevelopment of Jasper Gates | SkyriseEdmonton

RioCan is proposing to redevelop the Jasper Gates shopping centre into a transit-oriented development (TOD) with up to 1,000 residential units and 5,000 square-metres of retail space.

edmonton.skyrisecities.com

This won’t happen for forever. Riocan is delaying Toronto projects it proposed 20 years ago. I doubt Edmonton projects are even on their radar.

 

[northlands]

What is their incentive to redevelop it at this point? Jasper Gates has two solid anchor tenants and overall very little vacancy despite the rest of SPR floundering.

 

[thommyjo]

What is their incentive to redevelop it at this point? Jasper Gates has two solid anchor tenants and overall very little vacancy despite the rest of SPR floundering.

And so many other sites available between 142-156. No land value compared to Toronto.

 

[Edmcowboy11]

So that makes at least two big redevelopment proposals that don't have much chance of happening along the valley line.