Unbuilt Projects

[FCC1982]

"Alberta Business Journal" from 1971 continued . . .

Edmonton Centre including TD Tower - early days (didn't know SOM was involved in the design):

Edmonton House - almost completed:

With it's circular companion - The Chateau Lacombe:

Mill Woods Plan:

James MacDonald Bridge construction - was to be part of an inner-city freeway system I beleive:

 

[FCC1982]

From "Alberta Business Journal" 1972. This is the last year I found for this publication.
There are other publications I found with Edmonton related stuff that I will post in the coming days.
Hope you enjoy.

Victoria Plaza on the right - says 60 storeys (but I only count around 47)
Did some form of this ever get built ?

Edmonton Centre design moving along in 1972 - love the hand-drawn pencil sketch:

Edmonton Plaza Hotel:

Edmonton focused issue - Oct. 1972:

 

[FCC1982]

Doing this research one realizes it really was a time of unbridled optimism for the entire province.

 

[Glenco]

What did Lougheed do to quash optimism ?

BTW - I have more to post - I’ll do so over the coming week or so.

I outlined how he consolidated the oil industry in YYC in a previous post.
Another example was a new university that the previous Social Credits in St. Albert on the banks of the Sturgeon River. They wanted to put it there because they didn’t want to upset their base. Because they were a bunch of prudes they didn’t want to call it Sturgeon University because of sexual association so they called it Athabasca University instead. Lougheed decided that a new university wasn’t necessary as the baby boom was ending and the extra capacity would never be required so he turned it into distance learning University.
A few years later someone reasoned that because it was called Athabasca University it should be located in Athabasca and damn the cost and the university’s relationship with the U of A.