Falcon Towers | 170m | 44s | Langham Developments | Arc Studio

What do you think of this project?

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Kosy123 said:
It seems like every downtown rental is filling up nicely tbh. Should bode well for any future projects in downtown, demand to live in downtown isn't an issue right now, even with whatever negative perceptions people might have.
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While safety has improved somewhat over the last year, I feel it would be a mistake to dismiss or sugar coat the problems and it is way too soon to declare victory prematurely.

I just walked through the south LRT entrance on 103 Street (far from Falcon btw) that has reeked for days, has people loitering in it and after that had a homeless person shouting at me for no reason on the next block.

This for instance, probably partly explains why Edmonton continues to lag behind other major Canadian cities with the number of downtown residents and the amount of new residential buildings.
 
David A said:
While safety has improved somewhat over the last year, I feel it would be a mistake to dismiss or sugar coat the problems and it is way too soon to declare victory prematurely.

I just walked through the south LRT entrance on 103 Street (far from Falcon btw) that has reeked for days, has people loitering in it and after that had a homeless person shouting at me for no reason on the next block.

This for instance, probably partly explains why Edmonton continues to lag behind other major Canadian cities with the number of downtown residents and the amount of new residential buildings.
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Oh I'm not denying that there's issues and we're a long ways away from fully solving the issues of lack of retail, safety, vibrancy.

But even with all those negatives, vacancy rates are dropping, new projects that open up are leasing successfully and quite fast in ways we didn't expect (Stationlands being the one I'm super surprised with). If this is the base level of interest we get with downtown's disadvantages as of right now, I think the future is bright irregardless.
 
The future is bright if we do not let up on dealing with the problems related to our downtown, particularly the three big ones: safety, lack of growth in nearby jobs and lack of a health mix of nearby retail.

If we lose focus or quit to soon, most of the growth will continue to go to areas outside the downtown core as it has so far.
 
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