80-storey tower proposed for downtown Edmonton
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016Plans for an 80-storey condo tower proposed for the Quarters in downtown Edmonton were presented to the public Monday evening.
The Quarters Hotel and Residences would tower over Jasper Avenue and Grierson Hill Road, bordered on the west by the Shaw Conference Centre and on the east by 96th Street.
The building would be the tallest in Edmonton. The Stantec Tower stretches 66 storeys and is expected to open in 2018.
But the architect behind the new project, Brad Kennedy says despite the height, the river valley will still be in sight for people below.
“We designed the podium of the tower to be transparent, so the only piece of the tower that blocks six-and-a-half per cent of the view is the core for the elevators and the stairwells,” said Kennedy.
“Everything else is completely clear, so you can walk along Jasper Avenue and you can see down through the tower to the whole river valley.”
The project would include a hotel, condominiums, restaurants, fitness facilities, shops and two publicly accessible parks, stretching over 100,000 square feet.
Several amendments to the land-use bylaw would need to be made for the project to be approved, including removing a portion of the site from the North Saskatchewan River Valley Area Redevelopment Plan.
