IanO
Superstar
All of that helps, but the reality is that we need 10k on top of that and a much improved daytime office population for any real movement, let alone the overall experience that current businesses are facing; it's going to be awhile.
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The_Cat
Senior Member
'Devastating': Edmonton's Art Gallery of Alberta aims to revive dwindling membership numbers
Fundraisers and drives are bringing back numbers, but the Art Gallery of Alberta is still thousands of members away from pre-pandemic levels.
edmontonjournal.com
Kosy123
Senior Member
Edmonton Business Census results came out. I was curious about the downtown numbers and it's not too shabby.
89,000 recorded employees in the downtown municipal boundaries.
89,000 recorded employees in the downtown municipal boundaries.
ChazYEG
Senior Member
That is a good number to see, but I also wonder how many of those are people working from home but technically reported as downtown just because their "base" is there.
Kosy123
Senior Member
Possibly? Anecdotal evidence for me is that downtown is far busier now in the daytime, but obviously not a statistic. I still think it makes for good publicity to have almost 90,000 employees "recorded" downtown for marketing and attracting residents and businesses, especially once we get past the 100k mark.
David A
Senior Member
I also feel it is busier during the day than a year or two ago, so these solid numbers do support the anecdotal. Weekends and evenings still seem to be quite hit and miss, depending if there is a big event on or not, so I am thinking most of these employees are those working Monday to Friday, office hours.
Yes, this is good news, but it would be interesting to compare this to pre COVID numbers to see how close we are back to that.