Stantec Tower in Edmonton set to be Canada's tallest outside Toronto
GORDON KENT, EDMONTON JOURNAL
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Published on: September 16, 2015 | Last Updated: September 16, 2015 1:46 PM MDT
First the arena, then Connor McDavid, and now Edmonton is going to have a taller building than anything in Calgary.
The Stantec Tower under construction in the downtown Ice District has quietly grown to 66 storeys from 62, making it a 251-metre-high behemoth that will be Canada’s seventh-highest skyscraper.
“Just having the Stantec building at 62 storeys was a huge coup for Edmonton,” Downtown Business Association executive director Jim Taylor said Tuesday.
“If you now tell me that this building is going to surpass anything in Calgary, anything outside Toronto in Canada … this is putting Edmonton on the map as far as the country is concerned, as far as the continent is concerned.”
As well as becoming the Edmonton-based engineering firm’s new headquarters, the project — set to open in 2018 — will also feature about four floors of retail, a grocery store, a pedway to the adjacent hotel and access to a garden roof, according to a development permit released earlier this month.
There will also be 454 condo units on the top 36 floors.
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