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Old Posted Nov 17, 2009, 10:59 PM
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Sounds like the Skyway Proffesional Centre in Red Deer has gone from 8 stories to 4. I heard there were some revisions, but didn't think it would get halved. Too bad.
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Don't know how many of you live here or have been to Lethbridge, but I figure since I'm living here while going to University I might as well add to this thread.

Any requests of any particular things you guys want a picture of? I'm not very good with the picture taking but I'll give it a shot. (no pun intended )
If you could, would you mind taking pix of the developments along the stretch of Scenic Drive between Lethbridge Centre and Park Place? Also, if there's been any significant developments downtown. Thanks! (I attended Uni there in the 90s and haven't been back since tho' I want to take a trip down to Lethy and Waterton next summer if funds permit!).
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Sounds like the Skyway Proffesional Centre in Red Deer has gone from 8 stories to 4. I heard there were some revisions, but didn't think it would get halved. Too bad.
Well that blows. I guess there is still going to be a crane for that building. *shrug*
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Sounds like the Skyway Proffesional Centre in Red Deer has gone from 8 stories to 4. I heard there were some revisions, but didn't think it would get halved. Too bad.
Sorry but where did you get this information? I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find any information on it becoming a 4 story building instead. I did, however, find an article from spring of this year that stated it was going to be built as an 8 story building with the possibility to add 4 floors in the future. See below:

RED DEER ADVOCATE
Skyway attracts medical tenants

By Harley Richards - Red Deer Advocate

Published: April 08, 2009 8:17 AM

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An eight-storey office building proposed for a site north of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre should have a strong medical flavour.

Sherry White, who is one of the project’s managers, said letters of intent have been received from a number of prospective tenants who are in health-related professions. These include general practice doctors, with a walk-in clinic probable.

Red Deer’s six orthopedic surgeons previously announced plans to share space in the building, which will be located at 5156 43rd St. and called Skyway Professional Centre. The Central Alberta Hip and Knee Clinic is expected to move into the centre, and White said X-ray facilities and a cast clinic are planned as well.

“What we would like to do is attract additional specialists,” she said, explaining that a concentration of health professionals and businesses would support and benefit each other.

“We’ve had lots of interest from pharmacies,” added White.

The building’s proximity to the hospital makes it desirable for medical uses, she said. In fact, a pedway link to the hospital is contemplated and might be developed during construction.

Skyway Professional Centre, which would contain more than 112,000 square feet, has been engineered so that four more floors could be added in the future, said White.

Construction tenders have gone out, with work expected to begin this summer. That would include demolition of the former Central Alberta Florists building, which currently occupies the lot.

White said construction should wrap up by the fall of 2011. She added that the cost of the project will become clearer after the tendering process.

However, when Red Deer’s municipal planning commission approved the site plan last August, the budget was estimated at $40 million.

Timcon Construction (1988) Ltd. is the general contractor, and White said previously that a group of local investors are behind the project.

An information session on Skyway Professional Centre is planned for the future. For details, call 403-588-4050.

hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
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This project had tendered for us back in May of this year. We had heard through the grapevine that the project was being scaled back, last I heard was 6 stories. A new project has come out on the ECA entitled: SKYWAY PROFESSIONAL CENTRE - BASE BUILDING - FOUR STORIES. There isn't a project description, so based on the banter I had heard over the last 6 months, assumed they had reduced the scope further. I don't have any confirmation, just speculation.
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^ I saw that on coolnet too. I think there is some contradictory information floating around here... I believe the original building was to be a total of eight stories, with four vacant floors to be fit up as space required. The drawings I saw for the 8 story building did not allow for floors to be added on top as far as I could tell.

Maybe they are now phasing the building by building the 4 story now with the prospect of adding floors in the future. Given the financial mess AH is in I doubt there is much appetite for building empty buildings.
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Well, I got to have the chance to tour the Stettler, Castor and Flagstaff County area today. There's been a few changes since I last been there.

The old IGA/Co-op on Main Street in Stettler has been redeveloped into a two-story commercial/office building in the past five years (judging from the architecture.) The mall is still standing and I noticed my favourite restaurant in the city - Grey Goose - went through some renovations and changed from its old grey-ish beige to a more sharper grey and added a little more flairs to the structure with the shingled wall. Seemed like a storm had passed through the city in the last couple weeks or so - the signs for a few stores were completely missing.

Castor's industrial area has grown which is surprising since it lost its rail-line in the last 10 years. More drilling service buildings and less grain elevators (it has it's one grain elevator still standing - the old Alberta Wheat Pool elevator.)

Was surprised how well off Forestburg was in comparison to the other towns south of it, though I guess there is the whole mining operation and power plant just 10 km out of town. It does look like it could be a town around Edmonton but no, it's just north of the badlands.

Daysland is like Forestburg but obviously a little bit larger. From the looks of the town, it seems like it is being a bedroom community of Camrose. I know a few people who commute from Daysland to their jobs in Camrose. Speaking of Camrose, I didn't get to see much of it as we stuck to Highway 13A. I was in Camrose 2 years ago and so most of the growth on the west end of Highway 13 had been seen already.

Just learned of a new stretch of highway that might just be my favourite bit of highway in Alberta - Highway 36 between Highway 53 and Highway 12. From flatlands to the rolling hills of the Battle River valley and then to the shallow badlands of Paintearth. Absolutely beautiful.
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Just learned of a new stretch of highway that might just be my favourite bit of highway in Alberta - Highway 36 between Highway 53 and Highway 12. From flatlands to the rolling hills of the Battle River valley and then to the shallow badlands of Paintearth. Absolutely beautiful.
Yeah, that stretch is pretty good. Highway 36 between Taber and Hanna though is deathly boring.
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Here are some shots of the New Academic Research Centre at Athabasca University in Athabasca.




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That's pretty cool, I didn't know that their was a substantial amount of students in Athabasca for AU to have significant buildings (Guess that shows my ignorance, opps ). I just figured most were distance students, but good for AU!
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^ Above link takes you to gallery of above project. Looks pretty good.
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Not really a lot of students most people up there are academics or researcher. It is the top distance learning school. There is quite a bit of other work going on as well. but this is the newest building.
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Anyone have any recent pictures of the office tower in downtown Red Deer?
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I was by the site on the 3rd this month and it seems to be not under construction yet. The site is fenced off and all but I didn't see any work there.
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Errr... what is the tower you can see under construction on Google Street View then? A different one? It's at the NW corner of 49th Ave and 50th St.

Link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...99.2,,0,-19.29
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Old Posted Aug 12, 2010, 5:42 PM
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Oh, heh. I was thinking it was the lot that was close to the hospital. Had some signage up for another tower then. I only zipped by it (on the Greyhound.)
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