scyeg
Active Member
I hope Regency starts to feel the pressure and just sells. I don’t trust them at all to do anything that this corner deserves.
Aaand that's why you're being targeted, Regency.“There’s a way to make that site look much, much tidier, even if you have to leave some of the structural elements in,” [Anne Stevenson] said. “I’ve been meeting with the property owner for years, basically since I was first elected. We would meet, I’d sort of hear a commitment to make some changes, and it just repeatedly seems not to happen.
“The property owner has invested in wraparounds in the fencing. But we’re just in a cycle where the wraps get put up and they get torn down. Nothing’s actually addressing the overall look of the site.”
Stevenson said she told Regency in March that she would be asking city staff about “enforcement options” when it comes to the BMO site.
just put the site on sale already!![]()
Developer says he was told by Edmonton officials to knock down BMO building
The City of Edmonton calls the site a "problem property." The Downtown Revitalization Coalition has stated that many of its members complain.edmontonjournal.com
Yes, it has been almost 8 years now. If they can't get their act together and even maintain the site better, just sell to someone who actually cares and/or has the resources to do more with it.just put the site on sale already!
Their statements in the Journal article also seem a bit misleading to me. The city encouraged them to decide quickly about tearing down the old building here because of the LRT construction schedule, but it did not force the developer to do. There is a difference and this is yet another bad example of what happens when things are torn down in haste.Take some responsibility, Regency. You could have demolished the whole site, and replaced it with grass, like the old Johnstone Walker site at Jasper and 102 Street.