[husky]

Those renovations were over a decade ago now, almost 15yrs and helped stabilize the building, but it's seemingly gone downhill from there likely due to location (not Gov, not CBD) and WFH impacts is my guess.

Wonder if that's contributed to some of Procuras struggles as of late.

 

[IanO]

 

[northlands]

Which pixel is downtown?

 

[IanO]

 

[MacLac]

 

[David A]

While some others with older nearly vacant office buildings or buildings with lots of vacancy are still waiting around whining and moaning, this actually went ahead quite quickly and well.

 

[kcantor]

Wonder if that's contributed to some of Procuras struggles as of late.

or vice versa?

 

[IanO]

External ID
621955143-002
Job Type
Sign Development Permit
Description
To install (2) Fascia Sign(s) limited to On-premises Advertising (YOUCAN Youth Services)
Applicant
YOUCAN YOUTH SERVICES
Status
New
Class of Permit

Create Date
July 25, 2025
Approval Date

Location
10315 - 109 STREET NW Plan B2 Blk 8 Lots 115-117
Neighbourhood
DOWNTOWN

 

[buildings]

a sign? really? a sign....downtown is on FIRE!

 

[IanO]

Haha, it's a great little spot that needs some identity and signage and so yes, it's important.

 

[constance_chlore]

Good signage can make a big difference to the feel on the street!

 

[thommyjo]

My company was offered great lease incentives in the Telus building. However half the office threatened to quit because parking sucks and nobody wants to deal with all the crime downtown, so we ended up moving to an office in suburbs.

To bring this over from the city centre mall thread…

I think this is one of the hidden costs of sprawl our leaders don’t talk enough about. If 50% of our population lives 30+ minute commutes from downtown, we will see a lot less interest in companies locating downtown.

This is also why TOD is so important and just slapping together 3-4 six story stick builds off every henday ramp actually doesn’t help us. Density near transit or more central helps give better population balance and keeps people more connected to our core.

It’s also why “unaffordable” infill arguments annoy me. We have lots of 700-2mil homes in suburbs. It doesn’t hurt to also have those in central areas. Cause there is demand for those homes. And the people making decisions about where offices are located, aren’t the ones needing affordable 400k townhome infills…

Keeping the decision makers for our city close to the core is important. If they all live in windemere, they’ll gladly have offices along ellerslie (I know some law firms that already made that move…)

 

[David A]

People go where economic activity, growth and jobs are. We can't force people to live where those things are not.

If we want more people to live downtown we need to make it more attractive, not make other areas less attractive.

 

[constance_chlore]

People go where economic activity, growth and jobs are. We can't force people to live where those things are not.

If we want more people to live downtown we need to make it more attractive, not make other areas less attractive.

I think @thommyjo's point was more about inner-city neighborhoods in general, and I think it's clear that there is a lot of demand to live in those neighborhoods. (And in downtown specifically, given how fast the new rental towers are leasing up!) It's worth doing what we can, within reason, to meet that demand because we should want to keep people invested in the core.

 

[David A]

If there is such demand then there should be no problem, really.