Kick-starting Edmonton's Downtown

Edmonton developer has ambitious dreams to open up the central core of the city's sprawling river valley to appropriate mixed used development.

January 15, 2004, 1pm PST | Abhijeet Chavan | @legalaidtech

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."

Thanks to Zvi Leve

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From dead zone to urban mecca

Published on Friday, January 9, 2004 in Edmonton Journal