Edmonton Construction 11 (November 2011) - Page 130

tony0911 · #**2581** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 3:54 AM**

^ Ya....Riverbend is already done.......It's all about priorities.......

Airboy · #**2582** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 4:35 AM**

Excavasion work has begun at the skyview site, Shoring is being installed, and I think the foot clinic is gone after it is used as a polling station.

TimB09 · #**2583** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 1:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Airboy

Excavasion work has begun at the skyview site, Shoring is being installed, and I think the foot clinic is gone after it is used as a polling station.

Did you mean Skyline? If not, which project is Skyview?

Airboy · #**2584** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 2:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by TimB09

Did you mean Skyline? If not, which project is Skyview?

Yes I mean Skyline. Long day yesterday.

Airboy · #**2585** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 4:05 PM**

Had a good conversation with a gentleman in St Albert last night after voting. He is involved with the Grandin Mall in St Al. The long dormant redevelopment is going ahead sooner rather than later. The first phase is a 4 -5 story mixed use on the corner of Grandin Rd and Churchill Ave. An agreement with Scotia Bank has the this going forward first.

rapid_business · #**2586** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 4:08 PM**

Same design as originally pitched by Amacon a couple years ago? (Which I think has full approval)

CMD UW · #**2587** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 7:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by tony0911

^ Ya....Riverbend is already done.......It's all about priorities.......

Which part, because my area isn't done.

Coldrsx · #**2588** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 7:53 PM**

^You are not in Riverbend.

SHOFEAR · #**2589** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 8:01 PM**

my street was done three weeks ago sucka. I think it has been swept once or twice since.

Coldrsx · #**2590** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 8:15 PM**

^As it should be... but again, where are these things?

Daveography · #**2591** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 8:20 PM**

I had a fun email discussion thread with the Transportation department over street sweeping last year. Basically they randomize the priorities every year, so as to appear "fair" to everyone. Fairness apparently doesn't take into account those who choose to pay more (in rent, housing cost, or taxes) to live more centrally and near services and/or those who have lived in a neighborhood for more than 30 years, or to neighborhoods better suited for walking, cycling and transit, neighborhoods which carry a heavier tax burden over time, etc.

The Transportation department is so incredibly out of step with the goals of this city and council. 99 St. rehabilitation was another prime example of this.

Hallsy's Toupee · #**2592** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by RTA

The Transportation department is so incredibly out of step with the goals of this city and council. 99 St. rehabilitation was another prime example of this.

Apparently they are the ones in charge of the backward-🞵🞵🞵 patio permits in this city, if I read correctly the media reports over city council re-examining them.

240glt · #**2593** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 8:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by RTA

I had a fun email discussion thread with the Transportation department over street sweeping last year. Basically they randomize the priorities every year, so as to appear "fair" to everyone. Fairness apparently doesn't take into account those who choose to pay more (in rent, housing cost, or taxes) to live more centrally and near services and/or those who have lived in a neighborhood for more than 30 years, or to neighborhoods better suited for walking, cycling and transit, neighborhoods which carry a heavier tax burden over time, etc.

They need to prioritize based on where the dust & grit interferes most with people who are being forced to breathe the stuff being kicked up by traffic & wind. They need to focus on main arteries, main streets where lots of people walk first. I am cool with my street not being swept until early may, but I do not want 82 street or 112ave, which has tonnes of traffic and lots of pedestrians waiting until downtown doesn't have a grain of sand on it before they start doing anything. Luckily the city has been out doing the major arteries and around the LRT stations.. at this point I think the city's cleanup efforts have been good.

Where it's not good is along the yellowhead, esp. east of the city. It's beyond gross.

Coldrsx · #**2594** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 8:49 PM**

^^

The reply given last year to me:

thank you for your email to the Transportation Departments internet email service regarding street cleaning.

Unfortunately the task of cleaning a City is not something that the Media can not describe fully in the few seconds that it provides to cover any one topic in a news broadcast or paragraph in a column of a news paper.

Street cleaning tasks are performed simultaneously, on both residential roads and arterial/ collector roads.

Residential or local roads are roadways that are not sanded on a routed basis, but those that are maintained on an as required basis. These roadways are swept during daytime hours which currently are undertaken between the 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday thru Friday.

Arterial roadways and the business districts are cleaned at night, from 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM; the arterial roadway network includes entrance roads to the city as well as the freeways, drives and major business areas. The time between the “Day” shift and the “Night” shifts is for servicing these complex pieces of equipment.

We recognize that to some citizens that we should be starting earlier with the street sweeping program but there are constraints that the average citizen may not take into consideration. The arterial street sweeping part of the program is under taken at night for the safety of our employee’s as well as the safety of the public. Unfortunately with night time temperatures below zero the moist material that we are trying to pick up is frozen to the roadway and the gutter. We must pre-wet this material prior to pickup in order to reduce the dust generated be this type of work.

The Downtown business area is between 97 and 109 street, from 99 to 104 avenues has all seen it’s major annual cleaning and is now in the maintenance portion of our summer cleaning program. We are moving our major night cleaning focus to the arterial network with the aid of the turf crews cleaning the boulevards in front of us.

The residential program is and always will be a contentious one, with no one wanting their street to be cleaned last. The city respects the diversity of all its citizens and their personal choice of area of residence, no matter of its distance to City Hall and the downtown core. The residential portion of the spring street cleaning program is started on the same date in all 5 of our maintenance districts and within these districts we rotate the starting point every year in order for the folks having their street cleaned last in the past year, now has their street cleaned at the first of the program. We do endeavor to provide all road maintenance activities equally throughout all areas of the city.

Thank you for taking your time to write to us expressing your concerns.

Margaret Li

General Supervisor
Central District
Roadway Operations

feepa · #**2595** Posted **Apr 20, 2012, 11:14 PM**

Jasper ave and parts of downtown and oliver were done many weeks ago, but need to be done again... (street sweeping that is)...

On another semi related note... Why is the West side of Jasper ave allowed to be in such a horrible state? Sidewalks are never clean... you would think with being the densest community in Edmonton there would be some pride along that stretch... but its all but missing except in a few small spots....

Hallsy's Toupee · #**2596** Posted **Apr 21, 2012, 1:51 AM**

Funding dispute threatens future of River Cree Casino

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/04/20/edmonton-river-cree-bankruptcy-verge.html

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The River Cree Casino is on the verge of bankruptcy and is scrambling to find alternate financing to keep operating because of a funding dispute with the province, CBC News has learned.

Court documents show the casino, owned in part by the Enoch Cree band, has defaulted on a $111-million-dollar loan. The documents say the casino does not have enough money to continue operating.

“As the loans were not repaid, (the casino) is faced with a potential filing under one or more of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act or the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and finds itself in the current situation due to Alberta’s refusal to date” to approve the release of funds.

The casino is operated by Paragon Gaming on behalf of the Enoch Cree First Nation.

CMD UW · #**2597** Posted **Apr 21, 2012, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by feepa

Jasper ave and parts of downtown and oliver were done many weeks ago, but need to be done again... (street sweeping that is)...

On another semi related note... Why is the West side of Jasper ave allowed to be in such a horrible state? Sidewalks are never clean... you would think with being the densest community in Edmonton there would be some pride along that stretch... but its all but missing except in a few small spots....

The infrastructure along that section of Jasper Ave is coming apart badly. They need to do a streetscaping plan and upgrade stat.

CanadianCentaur · #**2598** Posted **Apr 21, 2012, 5:52 PM**

West side of Jasper Ave? Are you talking about the Oliver area? That's confusing, because this isn't a north-south road.

rapid_business · #**2599** Posted **Apr 21, 2012, 6:10 PM**

West end of Jasper I assume. 112-124 likely.

Rocket252 · #**2600** Posted **Apr 21, 2012, 11:04 PM**

New design for Century Park cancels Vancouver look

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Developer George Schluessel argues thin glass towers – the kind originally proposed for the Century Park site – have no place in Edmonton.

Edmonton needs brick and stone, mid-rise towers with plenty of setbacks and layers to disperse the wind, narrow roads with an intimate feel and sunny patches with space to linger.

That’s his view, expressed in a new plan going to city hall for approval as early as this summer.

I interviewed Schluessel on his new plans for Century Park last week (he bought out the Vancouver partner). The article is set to run soon, and here’s what I can give you in pictures – old versus new. Although the new plan is mostly just a map so far, without a lot of renderings just yet.

Click on the images to see a larger version.

New concept map:

New design for Century Park cancels Vancouver look Brown buildings are existing buildings. Note how widespread the four existing condo complexes are on the east edge of the development compared to the rest of those planned. The main street in the centre is meant to be as pedestrian friendly as possible and you can see walking paths cutting through the larger blocks.

Schluessel says the building right near the LRT station will either be a hotel or office tower, and hopes the grey box at the central north edge will be a park-and-ride parkade built as a P3. They want the predominate building form to be about seven storeys high with only a few highrise towers.

Construction on Central Tower is expected to start this summer. It’s still part of the old design. The parkade was finished before the economic downturn stopped construction.