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Going back y-e-a-r-s, for the 15 months of research before I opened my venture in Fashion Retail -- The Great Canadian Short Story -- a project that focused on upscale "haute couture" for a location in Old Strathcona specializing in one-of-a-kind garments for petite-sized women, I spent time in each of Montreal, Vancouver and San Francisco to suss out expert fashion designers. I think that Montreal has always been the centre of Canadian fashion, nearly on par with Paris and Milan globally; it was (and I imagine still is) evident on the street in what people wear. Same, same for San Francisco with an emphasis on alternative wear. I met some very creative people through that exercise.
There is today a strong design current running through indigenous fashion design, speaking again to the concept WInPEx for the Rossdale area, a BIG win for Edmonton -- in pictures this is what I mean...

 

[constance_chlore]

Honestly if I worked downtown, I would totally live in this area. (Well, in this development specifically—I probably wouldn't buy a house in the nearby part of Chinatown.) Yeah it's a little sketch, but it's hard to imagine a more walkable area.

 

[yeggator]

The development very much feels like a wall between downtown and the homelessness problem just north of it. Good or bad? Depends on who you ask but it certainly would insulate residents from it.

 

[YegBrad]

I happen to commute on the Metro Line, so when I saw this project on this forum I thought, hold on, I've never seen this building before.
I'm always apprehensive of building renders, especially with this one, so I walked on over and took a couple of photos around. This would be March 2026, somewhere around 4PM.

There were security guards patrolling that middle area between The Switch and Epcor tower. While it was chilly out, it felt overly liminal, 0 foot traffic coming in and out of Epcor or the Switch that I saw. To be fair, being an aimless punk building spotting likely didn't help.

I could see directly north of the Switch there was a group of people huddled in an alley, and a lineup for the nearby Hope Mission. The businesses on that street, 101 street, looked pretty derelict too.

I think it's in an awkward spot: the area was clearly being developed heavily, and in the future there will be more buildings around. But as it stands right now, it looks like 1400 a month to hug that weird, casino-and-parking-lot intimidating part of Downtown I remember growing up.

 

[MacLac]

Hmmmmm…….”145 units…..” for Switch Phase 1? I thought we were going off of 285 units?

https://bomaedm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BOMA-Edmonton-and-North-Square-Footage-2025.pdf

 

[Avenuer]

BOMA is wrong, there are 285 units in Phase 1.

 

[MacLac]

BOMA is wrong, there are 285 units in Phase 1.

Ok good….what's wrong with them? That inept at gathering the facts?