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CN Tower - Office to Residential Conversion - 111m (364')

See now the article is conflating different elements -- the railiners ran between Edmonton and Calgary on the CP line. And the building to the right of the CN station never existed in Edmonton (to my knowledge). The CN station in Edmonton looked something like that but remember CN is/was a crown corporation and therefore the stations from City to City resembled one another.
 
archited said:
See now the article is conflating different elements -- the railiners ran between Edmonton and Calgary on the CP line. And the building to the right of the CN station never existed in Edmonton (to my knowledge). The CN station in Edmonton looked something like that but remember CN is/was a crown corporation and therefore the stations from City to City resembled one another.
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It's wild to me how Albertas infrastructure went backwards in some regards as time progressed.
 
The research proves me wrong. I was thrown by the Queen's Avenue School which I don't recall at all. I remember "riding the rails" from the earlier CN building (I believe only one time from Edmonton to Unity, Saskatchewan; more commonly i caught the CP train from the station on 109th Street and Jasper Avenue from Edmonton to Evesham, Saskatchewan)... later I rode the train from Ontario back to Edmonton in the fall of 1966 on my return from Europe -- that was my first experience arriving at the CN tower when it was a relatively new building. Excellent research effort @MattPT!
 
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This might help - you can see the Macdonald’s Consolidated building in the background, the baggage handling cross dock shed that sat south of EPCOR Tower that was only (relatively) recently demolished, and the still existing park between 103A and 104 Avenues.
 
Are local investors not seeing the condopocalypse taking place in Toronto where units designed for AirBNB like these aren't selling at all? All these buildings have the exact same nonexistent market of single people who only flop in their closet homes for sleep.

Each floor could have half as many units and make them livable. Where's the 3-4 bdr units for families? We're so terrible at this.
 
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Are local investors not seeing the condopocalypse taking place in Toronto where units designed for AirBNB like these aren't selling at all? All these buildings have the exact same nonexistent market of single people who only flop in their closet homes for sleep.

Each floor could have half as many units and make them livable. Where's the 3-4 bdr units for families? We're so terrible at this.
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To be fair, what family is going to move into the old CN building?

There is zero infrastructure to support a family of 4 or more downtown. Hell there isn't even a McDonald's to buy a happy meal downtown....
 
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