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U of A real estate

Having more low and mid rises that occupy a larger area is, in general, cheaper, provides more affordable housing options, improves a wider area, provides a more human scale, gets way less resistance from NIMBYs, gets built faster... the list of advantages goes on and on.
The only ways I see high rises having an advantage over this are: 1) we have exceedingly high demand for condo/apartment that we could fill the same area we'd fill with mid rises with high rises; 2) high rise construction costs are the same or lower (due to scale) than mid rises 3) we have substantial geographic constraints (like Vancouver), or any combination of these 3. None of them apply to Edmonton, however, so I feel like we should be restricting towers to areas that already have those clustered in (where there's obvious demand)
 
cmd uw said:
JFC, do people understand what 'Conceptual' means. Good god that rendering Ian posted was used at Council/Public Meetings to demonstrate 'massing' and 'builtform' across the site. F*ck people.
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No offense but this Michener Park concept is simply not acceptable.
But hey, good enough for lil ol' Edmonton.
 
People need not get so hung up on a conceptual render. This is what is actually going up there:

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I drive by it every day and the finishing materials are quite nice, better than much of what you see going up in more core areas. I would say its very good for 5km south of downtown.

The commercial strip mall development is another matter...
 
From the Avison Young website, birds eye view of progress taken some time in the last month of so.

Site 1C is the two multi story UC in the back ground. Probably the best quality for the project.

Site 1A is the future multi story I showed in post #380. Again pretty bleh.

Site 1B is the commercial development. Very suburban in feel and ultimately a disappointment for a 60 year old neighbourhood. But it will be good to have more commercial options within walking distance. Also a very nice playground and multi use path which makes accessing Whitemud Creek much easier from the east.

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constance_chlore said:
I think this is what's becoming the First Peoples' House? In my opinion it looks pretty nice—reminds me of Ociciwan. Definitely more interesting than it was as the Education Library.

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Yes thats First Peoples house by ReImagine Arch and Bird Construction. There was a lot of interior work. Cutting and coring.
 
Avenuer said:
Will this space be open to the public?
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Yes that was what they stated in the article. The gallery will actually be free admission to view the gallery according to the news article. This should be pretty nice although instead of the location they are going to right now it would have been nicer if they could have situated this gallery at the University's downtown building on Jasper Avenue, Enterprise Square. This would have brought another cultural space to the downtown core where I believe it could bring higher pedestrian traffic from visitors and students that visit the gallery.
 
Edmcowboy11 said:
Yes that was what they stated in the article. The gallery will actually be free admission to view the gallery according to the news article. This should be pretty nice although instead of the location they are going to right now it would have been nicer if they could have situated this gallery at the University's downtown building on Jasper Avenue, Enterprise Square. This would have brought another cultural space to the downtown core where I believe it could bring higher pedestrian traffic from visitors and students that visit the gallery.
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As I stated in another thread, I wouldn't be surprised if the U of A pulled out of Enterprise Square and out of downtown altogether. That would indeed suck, but on the other hand it can make sense if the U of A wants to consolidate their main campus. As it is, Enterprise Square is almost empty these days and who knows how much that costs.

If that happens, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a few startup companies take over Enterprise Square if a big corporate firm won't bite. The office spaces look quite attractive.
 
Gronk! said:
As I stated in another thread, I wouldn't be surprised if the U of A pulled out of Enterprise Square and out of downtown altogether. That would indeed suck, but on the other hand it can make sense if the U of A wants to consolidate their main campus. As it is, Enterprise Square is almost empty these days and who knows how much that costs.

If that happens, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a few startup companies take over Enterprise Square if a big corporate firm won't bite. The office spaces look quite attractive.
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While I feel it would be a big mistake for them to retreat, they certainty don't seem to be able to figure out how to take advantage having this great downtown space or have much interest in doing so.

So sadly it it one of the deadest spaces downtown right now. It would make a great space for startup companies to take over and hopefully revitalize.
 
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