northlands
Senior Member
I don’t know what Okhi’s proposal contained, or what the financial/other commitments required by the City would be for the proposal, but the article frames it very much as the City had little-to-no interest in anything beyond flattening the structure with a track hoe, and did so without much communication to interested potential stakeholders.
Feels to me a lot like what happened with the old arena. They ran an open RFP, but iirc there were a lot of concerns over the fine print in the RFP over intellectual property of the submitted proposals that likely scared off a lot of seriously interested parties (see https://edmonton.skyrisecities.com/...s-redevelopment-city-of-edmonton.25118/page-8). In the end, seems like admin just wants to demo it as well and wash their hands of it rather than seriously consider other options. That’s what feels like classic CoE to me here
I also openly admit I have a bone to pick with a lot of the things/ways the City admin does and can be overly critical. Is it all warranted? Probably not. But I’m certainly not going to sit here and cheerlead their decisions, either. At the end of the day, this is an internet forum I post on largely while taking a
- take everything I write here with a grain of salt (or toilet paper) and nothing as anything more than that. There’s a reason I don’t post here under my real name (albeit it’s likely not hard to figure out who I am)
