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1. “Hopefully the market conditions improve for a building there one day” 2. “Well at least it's not just a parking lot, there will be retail” 3. “I hear exciting coffee place is opening up a location in the seacan” 4. “I hope the coffee shop can expand its hours, its annoying that it closes at...

I went once with some out of town guests, it was during the fringe and the streets were packed. We went up, and took a look. We were the only ones in there, and my guests suggested we go somewhere that wasn't so dead and we left lol. I never got to try it out! Definitely seemed like a cool space...

The street has come a long way! Didn't know an urban burger king had even opened lol. Pressure on the Tim Hortons/Wendy's parcel for something eye popping!

^Good catch, corrected.

Right on. This would be Westrich's second brand new surface parking lot downtown, with this one directly adjacent to a billion dollar brand new LRT line no less. Important to note that every surface parking lot downtown is temporary until they're developed, yes even the ones that have been...

Curious how the vandalism of the Valley Line compares against the high floor line. Is it the station design? Or is it that there are more stops on this line? Does TransEd fix the vandalized elements or the city? Will there be consideration towards how the West Line stations are designed (amount...

True and this is with Edmonton's free reign over concerts coming to Alberta for the most part given the Saddledome's building constraints. Once Calgary's new arena comes online, it's going to get even tougher. Hopefully more and more things to fill up the arena, and an effort to get the district...

Between reading here and the Valley Line threads, it really makes you question the overall operational sustainability of having so much of these lines running in regular roadway traffic instead of on more separated ROWs. Edmonton needs to make more rational decisions around its mass transit...

Maybe its the photos, but the passageway into the inner courtyard doesnt look as inviting as the Mercury block I. Regardless, great project, really like the risk taking of having the inner courtyard retail on both buildings, helps create a more interesting city experience of having some stuff be...

Worth watching, from 1984 Shocking that the same conversation is happening 40+ years later and how in some ways it looks way most bustling then in the footage. "but at night in contrast to many Canadian cities downtown dies". The fact that very little has changed in addressing these same issues...

Nothing about this is acceptable. Really unbelievable that this is even proposed, what will be worse is when some sort of bad 'improved' version of it starts construction. Do not look at the first page of this thread at what could have been. The prospects for this site really went from downtown...

To echo many of the posts here: the City is not blameless, but it’s easy to pin every downtown problem on them. The City helped foot the bill for a new arena 12 years ago, sold as a catalyst for a downtown renaissance. How did the downtown business community step up? 2015: Edmonton's City Centre...

let's hope none of those townhouses had a vault in the basement 🫣

A convention recently where they checked out Edmonton and Calgary and it was a no-brainer. Calgary has the airport connections, the Telus Convention Centre opening right onto Stephen Ave with tons of food/retail at the doorstep. Plus the foot traffic on Stephen Ave made the city feel alive plus...

I like the direction of having more animals from Canada. I can't count the number of times I've had guests from other parts of the world that just wanted to see a bear, moose, or just a deer and wondering if there were sanctuary type places or something where they could see such animals (not...