What do you think of this project?

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Gronk! said:
And make sure there's a loading zone for taxis, Uber and guests checking in.
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That's where the Alley comes in connecting 101st Street to a partially pedestrianized 100A Street (Howard Way). It would have to be made one-way heading in from 101st Street. Zellers wouldn't be Zellers without a counter-service eatery. As to the remainder of the store I could see it working in the downtown idiom if it offered an array of small-scale electrical appliances (Hamilton Beach -- https://hamiltonbeach.com/products) suited to downtown apartment living, hotel amenity & gift-shop items, casual wear clothing, and a small section of "fix-it" hardware items (again appealing to downtown tenancy). ALT would be an ideal hotel operator. Each of the 5 floors could have perimeter rooms facing Howard, 102nd Ave. and 101st Street with amenity-type functions and bars, lounges and eateries on the alley-facing side of the building -- separate elevator banks for hotel and apartment tower.
 
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I also did and used the words black hole in a commentary which I feel is a
archited said:
I have a concept that would pick up on the "1/2 site" that is left for a Tegler remake. First of all I don't think it would be difficult at all to replicate the exterior features of the original building what with modern technology -- CNC cutting, shaping and boring plus 3-d printing and current materials tech. It is more a use functionality problem than an architectural/build enigma. So I am going to study this for a while and see what can be devised. Pre-set parameters -- no parking on site (but maybe atrium-like connection to off-site parking); chase the "new" Zellers for a ground floor occupancy; develop floors 2 to 6 as a boutique hotel in the design idiom of the previous era; develop a double-use tower above the Tegler-remake-podium (~50 storeys) that is a blended function of vertical farm and apartment; use the existing alley as a portico entry for the hotel and apartment functions; provide a first-class link to transit; and develop a solid case for investors. I know that this will give a number of people on this site a case of the giggles but I suspect those will be the same people who have a hard time with expansive use of imagination. This aligns completely with another project that I have on the go so it is well-doused in reality and I would love to get back on the Edmonton-scene aligned with my (semi)permanent move back to Alberta.
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If we can bring back the Alberta Hotel, we can recreate the Tegler. I wish we hadn't made all the mistakes tearing down so many older character buildings downtown, a mistake many seem to still keep wanting to make, but at least we can undo some of the damage and in the process also help improve our downtown. It was more vibrant in the past, in part because those buildings were designed to better fit in and interact with the street.
 
archited said:
^ And there was no Amazon nor online ordering denting retail expectations.
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Yes, there is that too but a lot of the spaces built downtown here particularly in the 70's and 80's were not really well designed for small retail either and are too imposing or not very inviting at street level.

For instance, compare the recreated older building where Credo is on Rice Howard Way now to the 103 Street Centre (former Enbridge location) which actually was nicely renovated a few years ago, but is set back from the street a lot, doesn't seem very inviting and unfortunately is still empty.
 
MattPT said:
I deleted it. I thought it was clearly so bad it didn’t need a disclaimer, but I always underestimate how useless humans are.
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Not sure why you need to imply I'm useless. That seems uncalled for... I only asked because I have seen official renders from developers that looked much worse than that and I wouldn't put it past Regency to come out with something like that, especially when the city is determining if this property will be considered a problem property or not. The fact that the picture wasn't accompanied by any text or even a winking emoji to give away the fact that it was a joke, is the reason I asked my question. I like to be sure of things in life. I am a gullible person. My apologies if that makes me useless.
 
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