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We are heading in to year 7 of the 10 year deadline set by council for the Alldritt Tower. If it expires, does the current 'park' just stay as is; or is the land returned to the city?

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The vote Wednesday starts the clock for Alldritt Group. It has 10 years to finish geotechnical studies, detailed design and secured a valid development permit. If it misses the deadline, the company loses the rights granted by this rezoning and nothing can be built except a park.


edmontonjournal.com

Council votes 7-5 in favour of the 80-storey Alldritt Tower

A new 80-storey tower approved Wednesday for The Quarters could set a record for height in Western Canada.
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I don't know if they will get it together in the next few years or not, but given it has been 7 years already and it would be a real stretch for this company, I suspect not.

Also, if it were up to me, I would be inclined not to give an extension - 10 years is ample time and I think it just drags things out if extended. If it hasn't happened by then, I doubt it will.
 
archited said:
Alldritt has mostly completed detailed design (headed by Dub, Architect) and also completed geotechnical research. Will they pick up the pieces from the COVID setback? -- we'll see. I still think they will come through.
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I remain skeptical.
They haven't built ANYTHING other than SFH in years, and even these are not going out of the door as quickly as one would hope.
 
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archited said:
Alldritt has mostly completed detailed design (headed by Dub, Architect) and also completed geotechnical research. Will they pick up the pieces from the COVID setback? -- we'll see. I still think they will come through.
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Archited, do you mean to say the Architect and sub-consultants have completed "detailed design" pre-design (schematic phase) and have almost completed detailed design development but have not yet started the actual construction (contract) documents? Do you happen to know who the civil and structural sub-consultants are and whether the Client has engaged a contractor for pre-con services for the design work completed to date?
 
davcocom said:
TBH I was way more excited about the infrastructure around it than the tower itself. Some CRUs closer to the river valley (with river valley views) would be game changers and an awesome tourist destination.
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Yeah they should just build that part honestly. Revive this project without the tower and it's just fine!
 
ChazYEG said:
I remain skeptical.
They haven't built ANYTHING other than SFH in years, and even these are not going out of the door as quickly as one would hope.
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Alldritt went through the machinations, cost, and deliberate focus of developing a separate entity -- Alldritt Land -- including staffing up, to jump into the major development game. They must have spent a ton of money and sincere effort to get to the point at which they are at present. The project started with Architect Brad Kennedy (the vision that you see posted on this thread); when Brad died they took the project over to Dub Architects and Gene took a very different approach to design and had the whole re-engineered and the design, while maintaining the height profile modified to more of an angular "Deco" style of building, was intently engaged to help make the building the legacy project that it was intended to be. I, too, remain skeptical that it will get built but I don't think that it is out-of-the-question. It is so easy to pooh-pooh the idea without understanding the road travelled by Alldritt much less the road ahead. Certainly, it has become a running laugh-generator on this website by (my guess) over half the know-it-alls; wouldn't it be exceedingly funny if they were all served up a plate of crow.
 
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