no kidding.. it's easy to lose perspective of how spread out the core is... now just imagine that pano covering all of jasper ave once quarters and stadium are built out!!
because I'm part scientician I had to get some numbers on the overall size of the core..
full length of jasper ave from 124 to 82 St is ~5.5 km
for a N/S dimension, I went with 109 St from 111 ave, as it's the first that intersects both streets book-ending Jasper, down to the legislature.
clocks in at ~2.8 km.
so how does that compare to other canadian cities?
here's calgary, similar dimensions cover 9 av from crowchild all the way into inglewood, and 4th st from the bow to the elbow river
in vancouver, jasper ave's distance will take you from the lagoon all the way to commercial dr on georgia/prior streets, and the 109 equivalent covers granville st from waterfront to 4th av
the toronto equivalent would cover queen street from don valley to ossington ave, and yonge st from front to bloor
so yeah, the edmonton core is pretty huge, and has
enormous growth potential
and if I'm not mistaken.. from those maps, it looks like jasper ave could potentially become the longest continuous strip of highrises in a canadian city?!?
this is why I continually question and criticize the subpar infrastructure the city is building, do you want the core to be able to accommodate some serious growth or not
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