Edmonton Construction 5

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by murman

Edmonton, this is nothing short of a F*CKING embarrassment.

I've seen nicer Super 8's. You really don't care about your city, do you?

Where's your vaunted design review committee? Too busy on a junket to Vegreville to study their take on 21st century architecture?

Will you PLEASE stop doing this to your city???????

it is "outside of the review committee's hands"......southside near uofa.

but yes murman...you are right.

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by murman

Edmonton, this is nothing short of a F*CKING embarrassment.

I've seen nicer Super 8's. You really don't care about your city, do you?

Where's your vaunted design review committee? Too busy on a junket to Vegreville to study their take on 21st century architecture?

Will you PLEASE stop doing this to your city???????

it is "outside of the review committee's hands"......southside near uofa.

but yes murman...you are right.

[Kevin_foster]

LOL @ High Level Crossing

" Prices starting in the $350's"

Hahah you have to be @#$@'ing kidding me

[Coldrsx]

Edm. ratepayers face 5 per cent tax hike (2 p.m.)
Increase will cost $58 more on average $202,000 home
Gordon Kent, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Monday, December 18, 2006
Edmonton city council formally approved a budget this morning that should mean next year’s taxes will rise by about five per cent.

While municipal taxes are going up 6.5 per cent, city officials anticipate this will be partly offset by the provincial government’s gradual withdrawal from charging the full amount for the education property tax.

Once these two taxes are combined next spring, the overall hike for 2007 should be 4.9 per cent hike, or $58 on an average $202,000 home.


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“This is a growth budget. Our city is booming,” Mayor Stephen Mandel said.

“It’s easy to say let’s keep taxes down to one per cent, two per cent, three per cent … but this is a city that’s on the move.”

For the third year in a row, Coun. Mike Nickel was the only councillor to vote against the budget, saying the tax increase will hurt “little guys” such as seniors and single parents.

“It’s only pennies a day, but quite frankly those pennies don’t fall from heaven,” he said.

“To say that we’re taking up room in the education property tax … is a simply a shell game.”

The $2.3-billion budget provides an extra 62 police staff and 31 new firefighters along with funding for artificial turf at the Henry Singer Park soccer field, improvements to the Valley Zoo and construction of a skateboard facility in Callingwood park.

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[Coldrsx]

"For the third year in a row, Coun. Mike Nickel was the only councillor to vote against the budget, saying the tax increase will hurt “little guys” such as seniors and single parents.

“It’s only pennies a day, but quite frankly those pennies don’t fall from heaven,” he said."

oh mikey....

[CanadianCentaur]

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[Spencer]

Originally Posted by Kevin_foster

LOL @ High Level Crossing

" Prices starting in the $350's"

Hahah you have to be @#$@'ing kidding me

$350,000 is that for this entire shithole? I wonder how man people will be crazy eough to invest their $350,000 in this.

And I do agree with you Murman this is embarassaing

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by CanadianCentaur

I can see the EDRC's credibility going down the toilet if it keeps letting one ugly monstrosity after another go up.

www.edmonton.ca

go read up on the EDC


then edit

[murman]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

it is "outside of the review committee's hands"......southside near uofa.

but yes murman...you are right.

Each Edmontonian owes it to themselves to pelt the developer with enough volatile emails to run them out of town. Remain silent, and you're complicit.

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by Spencer

$350,000 is that fir this entire shithole? I wonder how man people will be crazy eough to invest their $350,000 in this.

And I do agree with you Murman this is embarassaing

but it is "solid concrete construction" so it must be good.

[CanadianCentaur]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

www.edmonton.ca

go read up on the EDC


then edit

I will - *if* I can find it.

But I have decided to delete it rather than edit, thank you.

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by murman

Each Edmontonian owes it to themselves to pelt the developer with enough volatile emails to run them out of town. Remain silent, and you're complicit.

whoa whoa whoa.....3 syllabol words in Edmonton....

[murman]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

but it is "solid concrete construction" so it must be good.

A four storey concrete building?

In Edmonton?

I call BS.

[CMD UW]

/\ It is concrete so says the website.

Sure it's a POS lowrise, but let's not kid ourselves, there are plenty of these in other cities. Yes Vancouver, even you.

[CanadianCentaur]

Why the hell does the design committee restrict itself to just the downtown core and adjacent neighbourhoods? This won't make sense unless they can only do enough, as in not enough resources or not enough funding.

I can only thank God that Century Park wasn't designed by TNP!

[CMD UW]

Originally Posted by CanadianCentaur

Why the hell does the design committee restrict itself to just the downtown core and adjacent neighbourhoods? This won't make sense unless they can only do enough, as in not enough resources or not enough funding.

I can only thank God that Century Park wasn't designed by TNP!

The EDC plans to expand their review powers to areas outside of the downtown.

[Kevin_foster]

^ oh, and Cold - no need to post projects like these There are probably hundreds going on in the city right now and outsiders might think we live in a suburb. Oh wait....

Anyways, to demonstrate how hard this developer is trying to make a great building I took the liberty in designing my own building in Google Sketchup. I did it in 8 minutes and it is 100% better.

[Coldrsx]

venetian 2

[tony0911]

A prime example of what I mean.....developers have no interest in this city....must be able to make money easier in Calgary. We get left with embarassing motel style condos.

[Kevin_foster]

Anyways, I know my sketch was rough, but a good idea as to what Id like to see for 4 story developments ;p