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CN Tower - Office to Residential Conversion - 111m (364')
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archited
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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.
Whattagame
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Looks like Queen's Avenue School.
NicolBolas
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It's wild to me how Albertas infrastructure went backwards in some regards as time progressed.
MattPT
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Looks like your right.
This has more info:
Queen’s Avenue School – #LostYEG: Lost Edmonton
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archited
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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!
Stevey_G
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There were two I believe. One was across 101st where the vacant lot beside the casino is. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
kcantor
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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.
kcantor
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As for the below grade station level, I would convert that to parking. I would then remove two of the interstitial parkade floors so they have height and convert the lower one to additional retail overlooking the Station Lands park and the upper one to amenity spaces for the residential.
Offworld
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I wonder if the floorplans are targeted to the student demographic, and they're chasing the grant money. Otherwise, I'm baffled.
Barnaby
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The floorplans are good for the area. It will draw in the younger demo, and to point made by @Offworld, it's probably going to receive grant money.
For alot of younger DT residences your dwelling is a place to sleep. I guess I'm getting older (29), but I'm not seeing the appeal of a larger living space anymore.
For alot of younger DT residences your dwelling is a place to sleep. I guess I'm getting older (29), but I'm not seeing the appeal of a larger living space anymore.
TAS
Senior Member
If by grant you mean the downtown student incentive program, a main criteria is that it is new construction, not conversions.
supaflyryguy
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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.
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.
NicolBolas
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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....
inclusion
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They could go to a bank, though.