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Do these guys know someone who wants to open a rooftop restaurant or something? This is the second project they’ve been contemplating adding one. Kind of a weird spot to have one as well but I freakin’ love the idea of it regardless.

I gotta ask: what exactly made Beljan decide to go all out on this project? It's located on a frankly unpleasant street where the whole south side is a dead mall, it's sandwiched between a mid hotel and a decaying parking garage, and the building itself is architecturally uninteresting. At...

Some other older members would probably know more but that Dan White guy in the second link you posted has been linked to a lot of shady stuff. He was directly linked to the arsonist who was convicted of burning down the Kelly Ramsey Building, which conveniently destroyed paper records related...

Buddy of mine lived there for a period of time. Such a great building and his unit was unlike any apartment I've been in.

^ did the developer suddenly become allergic to wrap around balconies? What a VE'd downgrade.

10+ years is probably heavily undershooting it. In the thirty years before The Parks was erected, this section of downtown from 105-109 and north of Jasper saw what, Monaco 1 & 2 be built? And if you go above 103 ave, I guess you can count Quest and Jefferson Lofts+whatever Dub resi conversions...

Pretty fascinating engineering work on this. How long roughly are those beams? Must be like 80'? Must have went with pre-cast concrete I beams to avoid any more bent steel girder fiascos 😂

The modern farmhouse styling is one of the better mass infill designs (better than MAXIMUM DENSITY BOX style we see on the real infill garbage) but yea this one looks incredibly imposing and the proportions seem awkward, like they took a two storey design and shoe horned in the first level...

Sometimes I wonder how current transit outcomes would have fared had the City never established the policy of using LRT stations as de facto shelters during cold weather events for a few years there. Just set such a bad precedent, particularly in tolerating that sort of usage beyond exceptional...

I thought it was separate owners for those two parcels, no?

Looks like some sort of geotechnical work. Would be so great seeing something happen on this site.

Was just going to say I drove by a few days ago and I saw a couple guys working on something in the lot just south of the strip mall. It would be great to have it all developed even if just for more of the same strip mall. Pretty sure that corner lot has been empty since before the Save-On...

I spoke with the site super; my understanding is each portapotty has a built-in VLT and they plan to expand into a roulette table in the site trailer

Also notable: they decide how many seats are added, and removed the requirement for Calgary and Edmonton to have ridings solely within their municipal boundaries.

Per Robson Fletcher A guy does wonder what the reason is Edmonton proper couldn't have 22 ridings, which would result in 55,403 average population per riding, which would still be about 1,100 people higher than the average per riding with 90 total ridings (54,319).