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What do you think of this project?

  • I like it a lot

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • I like it

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • I neither like nor dislike it

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • I dislike it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I dislike it a lot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
This is huge news and the renderings are spectacular. This area will be transformed substantially by the end of the decade.

I do wonder if this, the Parks and Warehouse District Park projects completion will entice some developers to seriously look at more residential tower projects around the core. Downtown really, really needs more residents to help turn things around.
 
Kosy123 said:
Shovels in the ground soon hopefully? This would be a shiny addition for the area!
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Likely 2027. The initial ask to GoA was for a planning grant first (targeting budget 2025) and then the capital grant for budget 2026. That would start construction in 2027 with a targeted completion for academic year 2029-30. It all comes down to how well the government supports the project.

Canadian 001 said:
Looks like ~35+ meters and ~9 floors
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Close. 34,100 sm and 10 storeys for the current program.
 
Development Permit (and Property re-zone) by late 2025 or early 2026; Construction documents and Bid Documents by late 2026 -- all this while fundraising is in place including Government Grants. Construction start in 2027 continuing through '27, '28, and '29 with occupancy in the fall of '29 school year. Concurrent with this might be development of the 109th Street Campus gateway and the Ceremonial Quad -- or at least some foundational work for those projects.
 
The beauty of this has several aspects -- 1. the integration of the north part of Capital Boulevard into a student activity centre, 2. a new focus on 109th Street as a University corridor between NorQuest and MacU. (maybe and just "maybe" seeing the eventual expansion of Norquest across 109th Street westward), 3. the integration of a four block area of downtown Edmonton between 102nd Avenue and 104th Avenue and 107th Street and 109th Street into an urban College Campus, 4. pressure to add student housing on the Maclab 102nd Avenue Site and the completion of the next 2 phases of the Parks towers, 5. Pressure on the Warehouse District Park to add additional "games" amenities for student use of the park, and 6. the (slow) conversion of 102nd Avenue into an MUP-rich pedestrianized street from 109th to 97th, right through the heart of downtown and, again, potentially across 109th street westward.
 
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Munanyo said:
This is huge news and the renderings are spectacular. This area will be transformed substantially by the end of the decade.

I do wonder if this, the Parks and Warehouse District Park projects completion will entice some developers to seriously look at more residential tower projects around the core. Downtown really, really needs more residents to help turn things around.
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Expect to hear more about other projects in the area in Q1/25.
 
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This community is gonna be something else in 5 years.

-norquest expansions
-Valley Line West and streetscaping improvements
-Parks development
-Warehouse Park
 
Stevey_G said:
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This community is gonna be something else in 5 years.

-norquest expansions
-Valley Line West and streetscaping improvements
-Parks development
-Warehouse Park
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100%. You know how we all look back on Google Streetview at 104 ave and 101st in amazement of the transformation? That's how I think we'll be looking back at 102 ave and 108 st in 2030.
 
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