Recent content by Marcel

People had wondered about the phasing of the project earlier in the thread. Main reason that the North tower is going first is that there are quite a bit of utilities needing relocation in the "alley" that cuts through the site, and those relocations are years away due to Epcor being tied up...

My understanding is that council can't evaluate the developer's wherewithal or track record, merely the merits of the proposal itself. And on that basis the proposal was acceptable. Don't issue any demolition permits without a slew of conditions and guarantees from the owner that they are...

How do you figure? Stantec is rarely involved in multi-family developments in Edmonton, and the ones that they have been involved with haven't gone ahead (Milner Building as an example). I have nothing against Stantec, but they're not a big player in this market in Edmonton. Dialog is the big...

Did they even brew there? I thought that they'd started in Fort Saskatchewan and kept the brewing there when they opened the location in Oliver. Unfortunate that failed and took the brewery with it, but I went there a couple times and it was pretty clear they had no idea what they were doing...

Parks and Falcon are good bets.

I think it goes deeper than that. I've heard his name come up a few times with developers, and each time it has they pretty much spit and sign the cross right after. Not sure what the backstory is there.

Someone at the Journal, whether Staples or Stolte, wrote a fairly long article about the history and politics of Northlands about 10+ years ago, when the downtown arena debate was in full swing and Northlands entered the fray with a massive sense of entitlement that they'd get first dibs on...

I don't know if that's even accurate. I attended some meetings very early on with the Windsor project, and it seemed like it was a one man show. I didn't and still don't know much about Matt, other than people said he was a good person and had come from Triple 5. If he had partners or other...