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It's still a bleh design Gene Dub. Wish we could get some interesting architecture.

Looks good.

I don't mind it, better then those weird tree things by the library.

I agree, we shouldn't fixiate on low income housing. Put up $2,000,000 brownstones up in the area with Louis Vuitton and Cartier as corner stores. I would be more happy with that then gravel parking lots with a nice road.

The proposal of adding in a homeless shelter in the quarters is basically going to torpedo any shot at gentrification of the area. Families don't want to deal with that and are just going to move into the burbs. As much as I truly do want Edmonton to have a cosmopolitan downtown vibe, I think...

The carrot works better then a stick. For areas of the city where you actually want to bring life you need to incentivize. Offer X amount of tax incentives for businesses to fill an area. Worked in New York City, it can work here. Oh and to beat a dead horse, maybe have some cops on foot...

Thats wild.

The Quarters is basically dead for the foreseeable future, which is such a shame.

I agree, we have very counter intuitive policies in this city...

This is the answer. Downtown doesn't really have the stores or really even public services ie: K-9 school to make it a community. People want to live downtown really because they want convenience, things being close so they don't have to drive everywhere. Well in our downtown they get the...

It's disappointing for sure, but not really surprising to me at all. As a suburbs person I only really go downtown to eat at two restaurants and go to the occasional event. Brewery District is more appealing to me, it has more stores, easier parking and less visible social decay. Other then that...

That's what I'm thinking as well, maybe they will wait and see what happens with the general perception of downtown in a few years with the hopes that a new city council will actually do something about the state of downtown..

It's not the greatest for the price, there is so many better options like Tzin and Nero.

What is the difference in urban development between the two countries? I'm not being snarky, just genuinely interested in your opinion on this.

I mean that in the sense that we will always have a decentralized work force, not one concentrated in a downtown core.

This is a true statement. I lived and worked in Houston for quite awhile and really Edmonton is more like that city then we ever be similar to a New York or Chicago. Houston has a pretty compact downtown and lots of the energy companies are in the suburbs.

Perception is the only thing that matters.

That's really good, if this building can start gentrification of that area I'm all for it.

My company was offered great lease incentives in the Telus building. However half the office threatened to quit because parking sucks and nobody wants to deal with all the crime downtown, so we ended up moving to a office in suburbs.

The amount of complaints poor Aaron Piquette gets from me for poor infrastructure planning in the Northeast, coupled with general infrastructure and park neglect is almost upsetting to me.