Kick-starting Edmonton's Downtown
15 January 2004 - 1:00pm
Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.
Following in the footsteps of other cities that have successfully transformed blighted urban dead zones, Edmonton developer Ross Grieve wants to transform downtown into a mixed-use development which ties together cultural and commercial venues, running and cycling paths, and connecting to the office towers and new condo developments downtown. In Grieve's view, "the river valley is the city's greatest asset, and Edmonton has failed to fully capitalize on it."
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From dead zone to urban mecca
Source:
Edmonton Journal, January 9, 2004
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