Edmonton Construction 11 (November 2011) - Page 446

CMD UW · #**8901** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by 240glt

Prettier than Fusion on Whyte... nasty location though.. although decent for students I guess

I am not sure that is the most recent rendering as I think they've made some design changes. The location is meh, but its 50m from MacEwan.

Airboy · #**8902** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 8:59 PM**

So I have not been by in a few weeks, but I did not notice Synergys sign that is now at 105 and 109 st just to the north of McKewans parkade. Was I blind or is this new.

240glt · #**8903** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by CMD UW

I am not sure that is the most recent rendering as I think they've made some design changes. The location is meh, but its 50m from MacEwan.

Love the name though... "Blue Horizon".. reminds me of a '60's era hotel in Puerto Vallarta

240glt · #**8904** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 9:09 PM**

from C2E sounds like Concordia is building a students' residence adjacent to their campus on 112th ave. Be interesting to see what they propose

Coldrsx · #**8905** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 9:14 PM**

Movies on the Square
Aug 30, 2013

Sir Winston Churchill Square
100 Street and 102 A Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta

(http://www.edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/documents/MoviesOnTheSquare09.jpg)

August 30 7:30pm Dusk epic
August 31 7:30pm Dusk Goonies

Bring out the lawn chairs, a blanket and a thermos to Sir Winston Churchill Square for two evenings of free movie fun. Watch as two blockbuster hits — Epic on Friday night and the 1985 cult-classic The Goonies on Saturday — play on an impressive three-storey high inflatable screen starting at dusk. (100 Street and 102 A Avenue, 780-944-7740)

http://www.edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/festivals_events/movies-on-the-square.aspx

Mikemike · #**8906** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 10:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Airboy

So I have not been by in a few weeks, but I did not notice Synergys sign that is now at 105 and 109 st just to the north of McKewans parkade. Was I blind or is this new.

New within a couple days. It's for The Horizon.

Coldrsx · #**8907** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 10:39 PM**

They are really going at it.

Coldrsx · #**8908** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 10:51 PM**

Good decisions transforming Edmonton’s most important neighborhood

In the next 15 years, downtown’s population expected to double yet again

BY DAVID STAPLES, EDMONTON JOURNAL

EDMONTON - Thirty years of bad decisions turned Edmonton’s downtown into a crappy, crumbling, depopulated place by the 1980s.

Thirty years of strong decisions will be needed to rebuild it into a lively, densely populated community.

The good news is we’re about 15 years into that concerted rebuilding effort. The payoffs are starting to be seen, as witnessed by the growth numbers and projections coming out of a new Downtown Business Association report by researcher Ali Sultan on residential building in the city core.

In 1986 — one year after I started work at the Edmonton Journal’s downtown office — just 5,050 people lived in our downtown. It was a bleak place, the result of ill-advised decisions that had allowed for streetcar lines to be ripped out and for most of the lucrative taxes collected in the downtown to be used to build major roads and overpasses to the city’s suburbs — which created a downward spiral, bolstering suburban malls and power centres while sucking away business from downtown.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmo...forming+Edmonton+most/8849618/story.html

Coldrsx · #**8909** Posted **Aug 29, 2013, 11:04 PM**

West Rossdale

Stakeholder meetings are starting up soon, was fortunate to be the DECL rep selected. Looking forward to helping move this forward.

240glt · #**8910** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 2:32 AM**

Heard that Telus is one of the majority investors in KR. Field Law has apparently officially signed on, their lease is up 2016 in 101st, so there's another 2-3 floors.

Also heard there may be some interesting stuff going on HVAC wise with heat recovery from the Toll building.

bigcitydude · #**8911** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 2:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Good decisions transforming Edmonton’s most important neighborhood

In the next 15 years, downtown’s population expected to double yet again

BY DAVID STAPLES, EDMONTON JOURNAL

EDMONTON - Thirty years of bad decisions turned Edmonton’s downtown into a crappy, crumbling, depopulated place by the 1980s.

Thirty years of strong decisions will be needed to rebuild it into a lively, densely populated community.

The good news is we’re about 15 years into that concerted rebuilding effort. The payoffs are starting to be seen, as witnessed by the growth numbers and projections coming out of a new Downtown Business Association report by researcher Ali Sultan on residential building in the city core.

In 1986 — one year after I started work at the Edmonton Journal’s downtown office — just 5,050 people lived in our downtown. It was a bleak place, the result of ill-advised decisions that had allowed for streetcar lines to be ripped out and for most of the lucrative taxes collected in the downtown to be used to build major roads and overpasses to the city’s suburbs — which created a downward spiral, bolstering suburban malls and power centres while sucking away business from downtown.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmo...forming+Edmonton+most/8849618/story.html

^^truer words were never spoken about out downtown in the 80's and 90's. I can't wait to see how it looks in 10 years.....it should shine, unless the economy slows things down or something....

Black Star · #**8912** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 3:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by 240glt

Heard that Telus is one of the majority investors in KR. Field Law has apparently officially signed on, their lease is up 2016 in 101st, so there's another 2-3 floors.

Also heard there may be some interesting stuff going on HVAC wise with heat recovery from the Toll building.

Maybe Telus with their name up top!!!!

Daveography · #**8913** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 4:07 AM**

Black Star · #**8914** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 5:25 AM**

Awesome capture.....

craner · #**8915** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 7:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Couple of questions regarding the BMO building in the background:
1. Was it designed as the podium for a tower ?
2. Did it replace the Tegler building ?

Thanks.

Rogie · #**8916** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 2:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by craner

Couple of questions regarding the BMO building in the background:
1. Was it designed as the podium for a tower ?
2. Did it replace the Tegler building ?

Thanks.

Yes and yes. The tower obviously never materialized and the Tegler... sigh.

kcantor · #**8917** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rogie

Yes and yes. The tower obviously never materialized and the Tegler... sigh.

i'm not positive but i'm pretty sure the answers are "no" and "yes" respectively. there is no infrastructure - i.e. parking structure, elevator cores, exiting etc. - that i am aware of or any potential to add them. i concur with your "sigh"...

SHOFEAR · #**8918** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 2:40 PM**

i've never once read anywhere that the BMO building was built to be a podium for a tower. At some point during the inital design it may have been a thought...

Coldrsx · #**8919** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 2:51 PM**

I think we all have assumed or thought it was a podium, but I agree that it appears not to have been.

Telus involved with KR hey... could there be residences?

s211 · #**8920** Posted **Aug 30, 2013, 3:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rogie

Yes and yes. The tower obviously never materialized and the Tegler... sigh.

No. Tower add-on isn't part of the design concept. Never was.

The design is a smaller version of GWL's "newer" HQ in Winnipeg. Same architect, smaller floorplate.