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The Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre is proposed for the “Northlands holdings” north of Alberta Avenue (118th Avenue). The project is proposed as the main component of a multi-phase development that would see Alberta Avenue and the surrounding community become the focus of renewed growth and improvement in infrastructure, commercial and residential architecture and themed build-outs.
Phase I, II, and III would include all of the following elements:
1. Major Hotel -- a “four-diamond” guest experience that includes a broad selection of room types for both the leisure and the business traveler. Amenities include restaurants, cocktail lounges, meeting rooms, fitness gyms, a swimming pool, and pedway connections to the Edmonton Regional intermodal Transportation Hub (ERiTH) and the amateur sports and recreation facilities.
2. VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Control Tower -- perched on the roof of the Hotel, the control tower will monitor and sequence air traffic to and from the Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre. Automated state-of-the-art 2 features ensure maximum passenger and area-resident safety as a new era of vertical take-off and landing craft make city-centre transit hubs a mainstay of future, forward-thinking cities.
3. Empyrean Citadel Landing Cradle -- the Empyrean Citadel is a transportable boutique hotel that can move from town to town, taking tourist guests on the most exciting of air-borne holiday ventures. The Edmonton Regional intermodal Transit Hub (ERiTH) contains the first-of-its-kind Landing Cradle for the Empyrean Citadel.
4. 3-storey Multi-functional Building -- with garden terraces, sky-lit atria, and a curvilinear facade, the Multifunctional building wraps itself in and around all of the other built forms adding connectivity to all of the features, providing retail and hospitality space with a true difference. Some of the features embodied in the building include:
5. Repurposed and retrofitted Coliseum -- the playing surface will remain as will the lower tier of seating (upgraded to a new level of comfort). The upper-tier seating will be removed in favor of an encircling group of bars and restaurants. The focus for the new Coliseum -- in conjunction with the three multifunctional dome structures -- will be amateur and semi-professional sports and alternative spectator events -- concerts with an attendance focus on 6,500 and fewer, specialty shows, and consumer trade-show events. Possible examples include:
7. Canadian National Railway Station -- connected to all other forms of transportation, the CN station will feature a major stop for the VIA rail, glass-domed rail car experience, running from Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains to Toronto with a major stopping point in Edmonton. The station will feature ticketing, a customer lounge and a baggage control centre.
8. LRT Transit Station -- the existing station will be upgraded to include boarding facilities for the CN Via Rail experience and to provide a sheltered venue for transit connecting Edmonton’s Northeast with the downtown centre of the City and the newly developed ICE District.
9. ETS Bus Station -- again, the existing station will be upgraded to provide indoor comfort and to connect the bus facility to all other components in the Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre. Bus passengers will be able to connect with all other modes of transportation, whether local, regional, Provincial, national or international. Too, riders will be able to attend sporting events and a panoply of other forms of entertainment. 10.Multi-functional Dome Structures -- of which there are three, will provide 3 playing surfaces each (9 in total; 10 including the Coliseum). The dome structures provide possibilities for the following:
The Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre is proposed for the “Northlands holdings” north of Alberta Avenue (118th Avenue). The project is proposed as the main component of a multi-phase development that would see Alberta Avenue and the surrounding community become the focus of renewed growth and improvement in infrastructure, commercial and residential architecture and themed build-outs.
Phase I, II, and III would include all of the following elements:
1. Major Hotel -- a “four-diamond” guest experience that includes a broad selection of room types for both the leisure and the business traveler. Amenities include restaurants, cocktail lounges, meeting rooms, fitness gyms, a swimming pool, and pedway connections to the Edmonton Regional intermodal Transportation Hub (ERiTH) and the amateur sports and recreation facilities.
2. VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Control Tower -- perched on the roof of the Hotel, the control tower will monitor and sequence air traffic to and from the Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre. Automated state-of-the-art 2 features ensure maximum passenger and area-resident safety as a new era of vertical take-off and landing craft make city-centre transit hubs a mainstay of future, forward-thinking cities.
3. Empyrean Citadel Landing Cradle -- the Empyrean Citadel is a transportable boutique hotel that can move from town to town, taking tourist guests on the most exciting of air-borne holiday ventures. The Edmonton Regional intermodal Transit Hub (ERiTH) contains the first-of-its-kind Landing Cradle for the Empyrean Citadel.
4. 3-storey Multi-functional Building -- with garden terraces, sky-lit atria, and a curvilinear facade, the Multifunctional building wraps itself in and around all of the other built forms adding connectivity to all of the features, providing retail and hospitality space with a true difference. Some of the features embodied in the building include:
a) an underground 4,000-unit automated parking structure that not only parks one’s car but, if it is an electric vehicle, will recharge the car’s battery. Other automated auto services include car-wash and detailing, oil change and general servicing, and response recall with a cell-phone app, enabling patrons to have their vehicle meet them at an exit station at a pre-programmed time.
b) a 12-bay bus depot (future home of rural bus service in Edmonton) complete with waiting lounges, ticketing booths and a cafeteria.
c) a travel museum complete with a themed holographic theatre, holographic feature kiosks, and displays that represent travel modes from earliest times throughout history and on into the future. 3 rotated view looking north-northeast from the ETS bus terminal
d) dining and entertainment venues. Quick-service outlets for those looking for snacks-on-the-go; casual eateries and bars; fine dining establishments and “virtual presence” rooms that bring distant worlds to one’s presence -- all form part of the Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre experience. 3-d rides and 4-d theatres add to the fun possibilities of an Omni-Centre visit.
e) retail with a difference. Shops in the Omni-Centre will employ the latest in technology, enabling on-line sales as well as in-store events. Again, “virtual presence” will be called upon to tele-present fashion shows from New York, London, Paris and Milan in a manner that presupposes actual (virtual) models strutting their stuff in the store at hand. Rare and unusual vendors will be sought out for event space in the building.
b) a 12-bay bus depot (future home of rural bus service in Edmonton) complete with waiting lounges, ticketing booths and a cafeteria.
c) a travel museum complete with a themed holographic theatre, holographic feature kiosks, and displays that represent travel modes from earliest times throughout history and on into the future. 3 rotated view looking north-northeast from the ETS bus terminal
d) dining and entertainment venues. Quick-service outlets for those looking for snacks-on-the-go; casual eateries and bars; fine dining establishments and “virtual presence” rooms that bring distant worlds to one’s presence -- all form part of the Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre experience. 3-d rides and 4-d theatres add to the fun possibilities of an Omni-Centre visit.
e) retail with a difference. Shops in the Omni-Centre will employ the latest in technology, enabling on-line sales as well as in-store events. Again, “virtual presence” will be called upon to tele-present fashion shows from New York, London, Paris and Milan in a manner that presupposes actual (virtual) models strutting their stuff in the store at hand. Rare and unusual vendors will be sought out for event space in the building.
5. Repurposed and retrofitted Coliseum -- the playing surface will remain as will the lower tier of seating (upgraded to a new level of comfort). The upper-tier seating will be removed in favor of an encircling group of bars and restaurants. The focus for the new Coliseum -- in conjunction with the three multifunctional dome structures -- will be amateur and semi-professional sports and alternative spectator events -- concerts with an attendance focus on 6,500 and fewer, specialty shows, and consumer trade-show events. Possible examples include:
a) First People’s Institute, promoting cultural and sporting events that engage First Nations’ populations with the general public at large. Some of their endeavours will include sponsoring Alberta Native Hockey Championships and National and International tournaments, providing a home for an indigenous AJHL 4 view from the west showing three multifunctional dome structures team, providing a venue for the World Professional Indigenous Rodeo, and sponsoring an Indigenous Olympic Program.
b) International Curling Bonspiels with the final playoffs graduating to the new Rogers Place arena downtown.
c) Alternative entertainment sports -- e.g. donkey polo played with two teams of sexily-clad women: laughs, entertainment and excitement in one package.
d) Volleyball championships and international meets; basketball championships and, likewise, international meets -- culmination playoffs potentially played at Rogers Place.
e) Indoor football and indoor soccer league play (Western Canadian leagues)
f) Illusion acts and grand performances -- e.g. touring Cirque du Soleil acts; magic acts such as ‘the Illusionists’; touring Broadway performances; and musical performances that draw crowds in the “understadium” sized gates.
g) Hockey from Peewee through Midget to Minor Junior -- ice for all City sponsored leagues; also nonprofessional men’s and women’s leagues. Sponsorship of International competitions with ultimate playoffs held at Rogers Place.
6. VTOL Landing Domes -- patent-protected design and mechanical formats prevent a world-first VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) dome from duplication in other venues. The roof peals back similar to the shutter lens on a camera to enable a landing/take-off platform to rise to exceed the height of surrounding elements. 5 alternate view of the three multifunctional domes viewed from the northwest Helicopters and a new spate of vertical take-off and landing air-borne vehicles will enrich mid-city life with all manner of flight functions -- City and Eco tourism, commercial connections to other city and town airports, pilot training, and filming and advertising potentials.b) International Curling Bonspiels with the final playoffs graduating to the new Rogers Place arena downtown.
c) Alternative entertainment sports -- e.g. donkey polo played with two teams of sexily-clad women: laughs, entertainment and excitement in one package.
d) Volleyball championships and international meets; basketball championships and, likewise, international meets -- culmination playoffs potentially played at Rogers Place.
e) Indoor football and indoor soccer league play (Western Canadian leagues)
f) Illusion acts and grand performances -- e.g. touring Cirque du Soleil acts; magic acts such as ‘the Illusionists’; touring Broadway performances; and musical performances that draw crowds in the “understadium” sized gates.
g) Hockey from Peewee through Midget to Minor Junior -- ice for all City sponsored leagues; also nonprofessional men’s and women’s leagues. Sponsorship of International competitions with ultimate playoffs held at Rogers Place.
7. Canadian National Railway Station -- connected to all other forms of transportation, the CN station will feature a major stop for the VIA rail, glass-domed rail car experience, running from Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains to Toronto with a major stopping point in Edmonton. The station will feature ticketing, a customer lounge and a baggage control centre.
8. LRT Transit Station -- the existing station will be upgraded to include boarding facilities for the CN Via Rail experience and to provide a sheltered venue for transit connecting Edmonton’s Northeast with the downtown centre of the City and the newly developed ICE District.
9. ETS Bus Station -- again, the existing station will be upgraded to provide indoor comfort and to connect the bus facility to all other components in the Alberta Avenue Omni-Centre. Bus passengers will be able to connect with all other modes of transportation, whether local, regional, Provincial, national or international. Too, riders will be able to attend sporting events and a panoply of other forms of entertainment. 10.Multi-functional Dome Structures -- of which there are three, will provide 3 playing surfaces each (9 in total; 10 including the Coliseum). The dome structures provide possibilities for the following:
a) 9 sheets of regulation-size ice surfaces, answering Edmonton’s dearth of amateur and recreational hockey and skating facilities. In one location, Edmonton will be able to sponsor world-class events and invitational meets for all age-levels of hockey. Semi-final and final games will be able to be held in both the repurposed Coliseum and in the New Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton. 6 view featuring domes centre and centre-right with portal for CN rail to the left and Omni Hotel in the distant left
b) convertible space for other sport activities, including lacrosse, volleyball and basketball. Edmonton will be able to build a “use-pyramid” that showcases elementary, junior-high and high-school playoff platforms in all manner of indoor “field sports”. On the spectator side, parents and fellow class-mates will be able to attend games in a professional-like atmosphere, a facility unmatched in the entire world.
c) gymnasiums and fitness clubs -- the domes feature a great deal of vertical space which can be demised to provide all manner of additional facilities related to sports and entertainment. Some Upper Level dome uses include:
b) convertible space for other sport activities, including lacrosse, volleyball and basketball. Edmonton will be able to build a “use-pyramid” that showcases elementary, junior-high and high-school playoff platforms in all manner of indoor “field sports”. On the spectator side, parents and fellow class-mates will be able to attend games in a professional-like atmosphere, a facility unmatched in the entire world.
c) gymnasiums and fitness clubs -- the domes feature a great deal of vertical space which can be demised to provide all manner of additional facilities related to sports and entertainment. Some Upper Level dome uses include:
i) the Wellness Dome -- spa facilities, traditional and alternative wellness memes, sports rehabilitation, meditation rooms including First Nations’ sweat lodges, and yoga and fitness gym spaces.
ii)the Education Dome -- educational classroom space for classes in traditional art and sculpture, dance, music and culinary expression. Patron-attended show space would enable audiences of all capacities to attend performances and exhibits.
iii)the Business/Meeting Dome -- meeting rooms and conference space would be provided that complements internal events and events held at the nearby Expo Centre. Office space would be demised for Aboriginal Economic Development, Alberta Tourism, Edmonton Tourism, specialized Tour Companies, and Sports operations.
iv)the Culture Dome -- display areas celebrating Edmonton’s cultural diversity -- art galleries (in association with the Art Gallery of Alberta), cultural museum space and historical artifact space. Holographic film space can provide virtual exhibits honouring the roots of Alberta’s diverse ethnicity.
ii)the Education Dome -- educational classroom space for classes in traditional art and sculpture, dance, music and culinary expression. Patron-attended show space would enable audiences of all capacities to attend performances and exhibits.
iii)the Business/Meeting Dome -- meeting rooms and conference space would be provided that complements internal events and events held at the nearby Expo Centre. Office space would be demised for Aboriginal Economic Development, Alberta Tourism, Edmonton Tourism, specialized Tour Companies, and Sports operations.
iv)the Culture Dome -- display areas celebrating Edmonton’s cultural diversity -- art galleries (in association with the Art Gallery of Alberta), cultural museum space and historical artifact space. Holographic film space can provide virtual exhibits honouring the roots of Alberta’s diverse ethnicity.
