What do you think of this project?

  • I like it a lot

    Votes: 74 79.6%

  • I like it

    Votes: 13 14.0%

  • I neither like nor dislike it

    Votes: 6 6.5%

  • I dislike it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I dislike it a lot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    93
Gronk! said:
The usual:
payday loan dealer
cannabis shop
liquor store
beauty salon
medical clinic
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Well the payday loan store just south in the old building that is on borrowed time seems to be hanging in and doing fine, so perhaps it makes sense they just move into one of the new spaces.

Although it might be a bit upscale for them. Maybe there a can also be a restaurant, a coffee shop or say even something useful like a shoe repair place (there was one before in the old building also).
 
Tropical said:
The adjacent blocks have very few of these things. The most common establishments are restaurants - particularly quick service food targeting office workers and students. There is also a cluster of nightlife in the area. Cannabis and payday businesses are struggling to stay open, plus liquor stores require zoning that doesn't allow them to open next to one another.

Given that an expanding Norquest is next to this, I would expect more of the same.
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David A said:
Well the payday loan store just south in the old building that is on borrowed time seems to be hanging in and doing fine, so perhaps it makes sense they just move into one of the new spaces.

Although it might be a bit upscale for them. Maybe there a can also be a restaurant, a coffee shop or say even something useful like a shoe repair place (there was one before in the old building also).
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I made my post in jest since there appears to be a deluge of cannabis and liquor stores in this city.

As long as The Parks doesn't have CRUs that remain empty for years (looking at you, Augustana) then I think I'm good,
 
Yes ... and a number of Shoppers Drug Marts and Subways too. Shoppers seems to have taken over due to the dearth of convenience stores, Subway due to the lack of other street front fast food chains.

It would also be nice to have more variety and useful things, again like shoe repair. I realize the new spaces are more expensive than the old ones, but we keep on losing the small but useful things that make downtown livable and instead end up with long term empty CRUs in some of the new buildings.

IMO we also don't need more restaurants and coffee places, but they seem popular and perhaps nicer than more cannabis and liquor stores.
 
Tropical said:
The adjacent blocks have very few of these things. The most common establishments are restaurants - particularly quick service food targeting office workers and students. There is also a cluster of nightlife in the area. Cannabis and payday businesses are struggling to stay open, plus liquor stores require zoning that doesn't allow them to open next to one another.

Given that an expanding Norquest is next to this, I would expect more of the same.
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Tell that to the northeast of Edmonton. There is 9 liquor stores within 10 minutes of me.
 
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constance_chlore said:
Granted that there are a couple parking lots there that need to be filled in, but isn't most of that empty space either the Warehouse Park or Norquest's Miyonohk Park?
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Yup! and the ones in the lower left corner of the photo are lots that are owned by Westrich and Autograph. We apparently might get more news on the Autograph one (Shift) this year.

This angle should be massively different in 5 years, especially since VLW is running through there, so practically Ice District level changes coming.
 
closely looking at the pic there are a couple of floors that seem to be higher than the rest. The lowest floor that can be seen in its entirety has a header over the triple windows to the right that shows this clearly. Count up to floors 7 and 9 and the same thing. What's that about?
 
NicolBolas said:
I am happy with the looks of this building, however this photo really highlights to me just how much more work Edmonton has to do to improve its downtown.

A sea of empty lots on what should be triple A property.
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As others have mentioned, much of this parking is going to be replaced by the Warehouse Park, among other projects.

The amount of surface parking in the western part of downtown is going to reduce significantly in the next year or 2. There will still be some of course, but it will be much more filled in very soon.

The eastern part of downtown is far, far worse for this.
 
buildings said:
closely looking at the pic there are a couple of floors that seem to be higher than the rest. The lowest floor that can be seen in its entirety has a header over the triple windows to the right that shows this clearly. Count up to floors 7 and 9 and the same thing. What's that about?
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I see what you're seeing....have no idea though
 
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