Downtown

[buildings]

rather than concentrating on getting more of what we already have (grocery stores), I'd prefer that we try to get what we DON"T have; hardware store, shoes, clothing, furniture (Rona, Simon's, Ikea). Maybe some of those could also fill in bits of the Quarters, or repurpose some of the under utilized extra parking at Unity Square, say, between Beer Revolution and MEC.

 

[buildings]

Some may argue that big box stores such as these require their own massive parking but if a Home Depot can exist in downtown Manhattan, then it can exist in downtown Edmonton. https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

 

[IanO]

That's a stretch... but not impossible if we had 50-100k living Downtown.

 

[buildings]

^just making the point that such stores can exist in a dense urban environment. Further, they don't need to be the same size as found at SEC. Urban format sized stores can be a thing. Notice how Best Buy is now putting small format stores into places that wouldn't fit a full sized store such as WEM and Sherwood Park mall.

 

[IanO]

 

[Gronk!]

AM/PM convenience store is now closed in the Mayfair building in the SE corner of Jasper Ave and 109 St. A nearby tenant was blaming the incompetent owner/manager due to a lease rate hike.

 

[thommyjo]

AM/PM convenience store is now closed in the Mayfair building in the SE corner of Jasper Ave and 109 St. A nearby tenant was blaming the incompetent owner/manager due to a lease rate hike.

The owner of that place is a moron according to a few different people I know haha. Not sure the full story, but the Phoenix diner thing is apparently owned by the building owner too?

 

[Kosy123]

Pretty minor but the Financial Building's new 33 units are supposed to be on the market sometime this month (got the info from Rentfaster). With the Connect Tower, that's 124 more units online.

Connect Tower apparently is 36% leased up too from Maclac's embedded LinkedIn post on that thread, which is pretty impressive.