Greenspace
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This one is very minor, but Fifth Street Lofts (Goodyear Tire warehouse) was originally 2 stories built in 1950, third storey was added in 1955.
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Edmonton City Centre Mall (Renovations) | ?m | 2s | LaSalle Investment Management
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dkazzed
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I'm hoping that because the ground floors for the 3rd Ice District Tower is not occupied yet, they're still anticipating building something.
Also Stantec Tower was occupied before they topped Sky Residences. I think that kind of counts.
I was there! I looked up one day, saw this (not my photo), and asked "they can do that?"
David A
Senior Member
I believe the old CIBC building on 99 Street also started out as one storey and a number of floors were added, but I can't think of many examples over 10 floors added here in Edmonton.
Of course in City Centre here it would not have to be the appropriately 35 floors or more added as contemplated in the original proposal. But it would have to be quite a few floors added to make economic sense here as the some of the fairly new buildings in the area are around or over 40 floors. So it would be quite the undertaking.
Of course in City Centre here it would not have to be the appropriately 35 floors or more added as contemplated in the original proposal. But it would have to be quite a few floors added to make economic sense here as the some of the fairly new buildings in the area are around or over 40 floors. So it would be quite the undertaking.
kcantor
Senior Member
Added to the above list for adding additional floors would be:
Enterprise Square
Excelsior Lofts
Brighton Block
Lodge/Pendennis
City Market
University Commons (Dentistry/Pharmacy)
Stanley Milner Library
Art Gallery of Alberta
Macewen Parkade
I’m pretty sure even with the previous posts this still wouldn’t be an exhaustive list…
Enterprise Square
Excelsior Lofts
Brighton Block
Lodge/Pendennis
City Market
University Commons (Dentistry/Pharmacy)
Stanley Milner Library
Art Gallery of Alberta
Macewen Parkade
I’m pretty sure even with the previous posts this still wouldn’t be an exhaustive list…
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edmo14
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That building (whether due to neglect, poor maintenance, poor original construction etc) had a litany of issues from hazardous building materials to water infiltration and everything in between.
Unfortunately the annex building was well beyond saving and I'm not sure how widely it will be missed..
Coprolite
Active Member
Given 555 and the condition the building had fallen into a mere 15 years after opening, I'd be pleasantly surprised if anything but the cheapest path was taken underneath any kind of aesthetic details.
David A
Senior Member
Yes, I think buildings from that era tended to have a lot of hazardous materials which made renovation more difficult and expensive.
It would have been good if it could have been saved, but I think the placement of it close to the Leg was an issue too.
But back to City Centre - the consensus seems to be a number of additions of 1 to 6 floors, but not that much more. So after 40 years I can't really a large number of additional floors above the hotel happening even if there is a structure in place to support it, which also does not seem certain.
kcantor
Senior Member
They could have simply enclosed it and created a rear-round winter garden on the south edge and a glazed vertical shaft to provide natural cooling as was done with Manitoba Hydro’s building in Winnipeg, the British Museum, 20 Hudson Yard, the Marriott on Times Square etc.etc.
If you take the moisture off the exterior, you don’t need to deal with moisture penetration. As for the hazardous material, it all needed to be fully remediated to allow for demolition when some of it could have much more efficiently and cheaply encapsulated in place.
“It won’t be missed” is right up there with it’s too outdated, it’s too poorly maintained, it needs too much remediation etc.
Kosy123
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Was just here and Ardene seems to have expanded next door to their old spot, and it's a bigger space too. Idk, positive sign retail wise?
Gus Haynes
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On the Edge Coffee has decided to close their City Centre Mall location.
Coprolite
Active Member
I'd kind of wondered how long it would last. I went there a few times to buy beans because they'd been my main supplier for years and I wanted to support them after the market closed in the old GWG building, but it's pretty desolate up there during the coffee times of day. You'd either have to be staying at the hotel to chance upon them when they're open, or you'd have to be someone familiar with them and deliberately go looking for them. They can't even rely upon the movie theatre to bring people in because they only run matinees on weekends, and On the Edge is closed weekends.
Meanwhile, the farmers markets seem to move a lot of beans for them.
dkazzed
Active Member
I wonder about District 102 as well.
Coprolite
Active Member
With them, at least the hotel seems to bill them as their restaurant, and they have some kind of overlap with movie theatre operations. But it does seem like a worse location than just being on 103 street or 104 street.
Gus Haynes
Active Member
District 102 does have some business in it whenever I pop out of a movie (which would be the only time I'm up on that level of City Centre Mall). I don't go there because the prices are unappealing, though.
David A
Senior Member
I didn't even realize there was a coffee place up there, I was probably not the only one. I wonder about District 102, it is more prominent but except for going to the theatres I suspect not a lot of people go up to that level.
The coffee place may have done better on the first or second level, but perhaps that couldn't happen because of other coffee places already there.
The coffee place may have done better on the first or second level, but perhaps that couldn't happen because of other coffee places already there.