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[McEdmonton]

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Doesn't feel like very long ago, does it?

Had you not posted this in this thread, I would've had no clue where that was.

 

[JNO1]

This one was taken from the top floor of the HSBC parkade on 102St/103Ave, late March of 2014.

I've posted this one before but this is the arena site from the old 105 street overpass taken in the fall of 1992 (ish).

 

[JNO1]

A few more of the arena/CoE Tower/Ford Hall/Ice plaza sites taken in July of 2011 from the 15th (ish) floor of the Bell Tower.

 

[Airboy]

I have some as well.

 

[northlands]

That pic from March 2014 is crazy… because for whatever reason, 2014 really does not feel all that long ago.

 

[Greenspace]

I remember standing in Bell Tower looking down, really we got a lot done in less than 10 years.

 

[Airboy]

Edmonton seems to do things in starts and stops. I remember when EC was built and the amount of construction going on at the time. Then nothing for about 10 years then boom another bout of construction then nothing and then we get Ice District. And now after a few years we are getting a lot of residential towers.

 

[Greenspace]

^The reality is only a very small percentage of all development is happening in the core. 90% of it happens in the suburbs or industrial areas and isn't showy.

 

[BASE]

Is quite impressive how much was completed simultaneously with the arena build. Sometimes hard to appreciate the pace and scale of it because we just have so many areas that could use attention.

 

[archited]

^^^^ Keep your eyes on the Qualico project and the Quarters around the Farmers market and along Jasper Avenue. The Warehouse District Park and the adjacent high rises are another area where things are about to pop.

 

[Stevey_G]

Since we're on a roll down nostalgia lane, I found the old RAW photo of construction under a harvest sunrise. This is unedited, I can't find the edited version with the corrected CN Tower signage and some improvements to the highlighting and shadows. Figured I'd share anyways.

 

[bodsbods9090]

^^^^ Keep your eyes on the Qualico project and the Quarters around the Farmers market and along Jasper Avenue. The Warehouse District Park and the adjacent high rises are another area where things are about to pop.

High-rise construction for those areas I assume?

 

[IanO]

He is speaking to a variety of projects that are slowly creating nodes with some u/c, some recently completed and some proposals coming forward.

 

[Edmcowboy11]

I really hope that one or two more projects start in the proximity of Stationlands.

 

[David A]

Edmonton seems to do things in starts and stops. I remember when EC was built and the amount of construction going on at the time. Then nothing for about 10 years then boom another bout of construction then nothing and then we get Ice District. And now after a few years we are getting a lot of residential towers.

Yes, it corresponds the economic cycles. I remember in the late 70's and early 80's and there was so much construction happening seemingly everywhere downtown, then after that for around a decade almost nothing.

The last couple decades have been a bit steadier than that, but we still have cycles. Maybe some places don't have the ups and downs as much - Winnipeg, Halifax or Vancouver come to mind, but most places have some sort of cycle though it may be different than ours.