Edmonton Construction 13 (November 2015)

[CMD UW]

Originally Posted by s211

Someone with access to Altus' Edmonton office inventory tracking might be able to shed some light. I don't, unfortunately.

Just ask someone at CBRE as they are leasing the building. My understanding is that the majority of the building has been vacated. Based on our experience it's much MUCH easier to complete this type of extensive renovation without tenants to manage.

[GreenSPACE]

Stantec - I saw that too yesterday, must be part of the supports for the huge LED screens.

[MichaelC]

^LED screens?

[GreenSPACE]

^On the top of the building, that face east/west.

[Swore]

From this angle the JW Marriott and Stantec absolutely dwarf the rest of the skyline.

[Kevin_foster]

^ from all angles they do.

[Coldrsx]

Maclab/Day/Pangman picked up another high-rise redevelopment site on 108st. I suspect that we will see another Augustana like tower there.

SOLD
Former Howard & McBride (funeral) Building
Downtown Redevelopment Site
10179 - 108 Street NW
Edmonton, Alberta

Property Highlights:
Building Size: +/-13,000 sq. ft.
Site Size: +/-15,000 sq. ft.

[Hardhatdan]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Maclab/Day/Pangman picked up another high-rise redevelopment site on 108st. I suspect that we will see another Augustana like tower there.

SOLD
Former Howard & McBride (funeral) Building
Downtown Redevelopment Site
10179 - 108 Street NW
Edmonton, Alberta

Property Highlights:
Building Size: +/-13,000 sq. ft.
Site Size: +/-15,000 sq. ft.

Excellent, this is what 108st needs!
I didn't really realize that this will essentially back onto the new urban park parcel west of 107st.

[Urban recluse]

Cool.

[technomad]

also on 108 st, old office re-roll, plus parking lot to the north gets built out too

[EdmTrekker]

Is that the Church of Scientology location? I wonder why they are not thinking a single taller tower as its got to be cheaper to build.

[Hardhatdan]

Originally Posted by technomad

also on 108 st, old office re-roll, plus parking lot to the north gets built out too

Well it will be interesting to see how that repurpose turns out. Seems like going with 6 stories on the empty lot is a bit of a wasted opportunity but beats an empty lot.

Hope it all looks a bit better in person than the rendering.

[EdmTrekker]

So the 2 buildings plus the 2 P lots here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.53888/-113.50737

[s211]

Originally Posted by Hardhatdan

Hope it all looks a bit better in person than the rendering.

Hope? More like guaranteed despair.

[Hardhatdan]

Originally Posted by s211

Hope? More like guaranteed despair.

Considering its an existing building, one of our lovely stock of beige precast, small window, midrises... Unless they did a full reskin (in sure that's a troublesome budget) it's a pig you are putting lip stick on. At least the precast has a bit of texture on this one.
Could they find a better shade of lip stick though, yea its not exactly a creative rethinking.

The 6 story has no real excuse though to continue being so dull, but it's a small picture and rendering maybe I'm missing the details there.

Either way more people living on 108st is great!

[Hardhatdan]

Better view on Strategic group's website. It is what it is... https://www.strategicgroup.ca/new-developments/

[technomad]

the now:



the new:



a white paint job wouldn't be the worst idea for that bunker, brighten things up..
as for the other materials, too early to tell from that render, but the other projects on strategic's site look ok, so I'm cautiously optimistic

I don't mind the scale of the smaller building, it's a good transition down to the old bank building on jasper, but there's no reason for it to ape the big one too much, maybe invert the color/material scheme for variety?

regardless, good to see some reuse, rather than replacement

[EdmTrekker]

The now looks better.

[GeneralLea]

Originally Posted by EdmTrekker

The now looks better.

I agree. I'm more of a fan of concrete architecture mind you...although the recladding feels like a poor attempt to rejuvenate the building. I don't really see how keeping the building with it's current floorplate would work well for residential, unless they had some fair floor plans and maybe introduced office space in the lower part of the building. (I think leaving it as office space/creative space would be simpler, and to build more on the parking lots would do more)

[Coldrsx]

Here's hoping for some active frontage on this conversion.