[crisp]

Design switched from Frankfurt to Hinton.

Forreal though, the original didn't even look like it would be that much more expensive, what am I missing? Remove the brick if you must and make it black stucco like Mercury and it still be better.

 

[Ed from Ed]

And people wonder why we compare ourselves to Calgary when this is the type of things that get built

Although I like where Edmonton's downtown core skyline is going, you just can't compare Edmonton's conservative core to Calgary's beautiful and TALL downtown core! I see ultra conservative thinking in E-Town and ultra aggressive thinking in C-Town when it comes to the core of each city !

 

[VaultBoy]

Development permit for the Costco

 

[YEG imagineer]

Costco on 50th likely closed then

 

[David A]

Although I like where Edmonton's downtown core skyline is going, you just can't compare Edmonton's conservative core to Calgary's beautiful and TALL downtown core! I see ultra conservative thinking in E-Town and ultra aggressive thinking in C-Town when it comes to the core of each city !

I feel the style of buildings there has more to do with the money available to spend on them and the fact that companies generally put more effort into their head offices.

At some point Edmonton became content with just being a branch plant city and with that comes branch plant offices and buildings.

 

[mcr]

Costco on 50th likely closed then

Unconfirmed reports that it's being turned into a Costco Business Centre.

 

[fromyeg]

Couple houses on 83rd Ave getting demoed across the street from Douglas Manor (in between 107th and 108th St.)

 

[constance_chlore]

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Couple houses on 83rd Ave getting demoed across the street from Douglas Manor (in between 107th and 108th St.)

Could be the 7th multifamily building along the 83rd Ave bike path under construction soon.

Did you catch a look at the sign at all?

 

[fromyeg]

Did you catch a look at the sign at all?

Those are just demolition permit signs, no development permits signs up, so I’m not sure what might be going there.

 

[archited]

See... this is the kind of house that should be protected.

 

[Out of Towner]

See... this is the kind of house that should be protected.

Appears to be in decent shape and has some some nice arts and crafts detailing of a craftsman but without all the defining elements of a craftsman, it's a bungalow That's probably why it's not getting the love and will get the wrecking ball. The new infill zoning bylaws aren't helping its cause either and I'm wondering why you haven't yet been attacked for being a NIMBY obstructionist. You understand that there's a housing crisis don't you?

 

[JNO1]

See... this is the kind of house that should be protected.

If that house is 10742 (I can't see the address clearly but the address of its partly torn down neighbor to the right is 10738), then it is on the CoE's Inventory of Historic Resources. Klyft Residence, built in 1933. Being on the Inventory means it is a building of significant interest (in terms of heritage resource status) but not on the protected list. Another little gem lost, unfortunately.

 

[Out of Towner]

Most of the private residences on the protected or designated list predate 1933. There are only a couple on the protected that don't. Funding for a designation very likely plays into the decision making process as designation also make the "building" eligible for public funding to preserve it. Obviously as the designation grows so to does the amount of public funding needed.

 

[constance_chlore]

My understanding is that the greatest barrier to expanding heritage protections is the property owners' choices. The city can decree that a certain property is a Municipal Historic Resource against the owner's will, but what I've heard is that they then have to compensate the owner for any potential lost value. In this sense, the budget is a constraint, but I think the expenses for contributing to keeping up the historic character of voluntarily designated properties are relatively modest.

I'm all for expanding heritage protections, but we should be careful about what we advocate for. Just because a house is old and it's a 'named' house (i.e. we know who lived there in like, 1920), doesn't mean it's historically or architecturally important. I don't think our goal should be to keep entire neighborhoods frozen in time.

 

[archited]

^ I agree -- we don't want to keep entire neighborhoods frozen in time; on the other hand when something substantial is subjectively superseded by a retrograde then both the neighborhood and the social fabric are tattered.