A Central Park for Downtown - 1.2HA

[Coldrsx]

Gronk on SRC
https://edmonton.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/warehouse-district-park.26381/page-76

[YegFan]

This is the worst project that the City is undertaking.

Should have worked with developers and given them huge incentives to develop and to build mid rise apartment/condos.

Now this will turn into a backyard for the homeless.

Waste of tax dollars.

[Coldrsx]

That's the spirit!

Development will come and this will certainly help encourage private money to build in and around it as it will be a fantastic new amenity for the area.

[MattBerryOfficial]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Gronk on SRC
https://edmonton.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/warehouse-district-park.26381/page-76

Looking forward to this park.

[stilicho]

Originally Posted by YegFan

This is the worst project that the City is undertaking.

Should have worked with developers and given them huge incentives to develop and to build mid rise apartment/condos.

Now this will turn into a backyard for the homeless.

Waste of tax dollars.

Sometimes I wonder whether the boosters have ever lived downtown. They've leveled hundreds of affordable spaces and replaced them with endless projects and towers filled with uncaring nitwits.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by stilicho

Sometimes I wonder whether the boosters have ever lived downtown. They've leveled hundreds of affordable spaces and replaced them with endless projects and towers filled with uncaring nitwits.

Leveled hundreds of affordable spaces? Are you referring to affordable 'parking' spaces or affordable residential units?

[Coldrsx]

Deeps and shallows




Gronk on SRC
https://edmonton.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/warehouse-district-park.26381/page-76

[Coldrsx]

Maclab LinkedIn

[Slide]

happy to see those parking lots finally gone - and wonder how many more 'revitalization projects' it will take before the other land owners/developers start developing; not that these arent worthwhile endeavors in their own right, but at-grade LRT, arena, alex decoteau park, that quarters park, capital blvd, and now this mega park, and you begin to wonder if all these together can only marginally move the development needle, what else can really be done to give downtown a proper kick in the pants to actually transform; and how many more generations will it take.

I think of Calgary's east village, despite the many surface lots still there, it's nice, clean, and has amenities. Nice looking buildings too. I would live somewhere like that if it existed downtown.

Fingers crossed this park does something, and we can finally get even a few blocks of desirable development downtown that's actually worth spending money on to live at.

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by Friendmonton on SRC

[YEG-Urbanist]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

by Friendmonton on SRC

It's really coming together nicely! However I do not like that northern lights thingy they have put up. It just looks strange.

[Slide]

^It will likely malfunction after a year or 2, not be repaired. Sit idle for many years after, until ultimately being removed 10 years from now.

In other news, the northern edge of the park looks awkward, the way the sidewalks terminate at the alley, then you have the parking asphalt and some 1 and 2 storey buildings next door. Weird interface

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by Slide

^It will likely malfunction after a year or 2, not be repaired. Sit idle for many years after, until ultimately being removed 10 years from now.

In other news, the northern edge of the park looks awkward, the way the sidewalks terminate at the alley, then you have the parking asphalt and some 1 and 2 storey buildings next door. Weird interface

I believe that alley will be redone to match the park paving/concrete to make the transition smoother.

[Coldrsx]

Trees going in as of this morning.