LDA20-0216 Strathcona The Baron Rezoning

Please save this building. This city has torn down so many historic buildings over the years, and there is no way to replace them. Keep our oldest infrastructure intact and equipped!

Looks great! Good for the area!

Leave the building alone. It should be preserved as a heritage site.

This is awesome. It suits the site and the area well.

Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA needs this ! YES we support the Whyte Avenue project. To be a first in Canada, architecturally beautiful, YES additional height to add ~65 new households to support the businesses located up and down Whyte Ave is well worth the price of replacing a building already at the end of its life. Lets be leaders, lets support businesses, Edmonton, Alberta & Canada. WE NEED THIS !!! This is a project that will benefit everyone who visits Whyte Ave ! So disappointing to even have to write this to voice support for a project that will assist in the recovery of Edmonton and Alberta ! What are you thinking ???? This is an easy yes ! Lets support this and lets get it going.

I strongly support. Mass Timber is progressive, sustainable and shows us the developers care about the built environment and the community.

It saddens me to see us loose anymore historical buildings just to be replaced with something new and more modern. We can't get the beautiful architecture and history of those buildings back once they are torn down.
I would not like to see the Whyte Avenue area turn into a street with just bars and housing.

Maybe the purchasers of these historical buildings should have to sign a waiver saying they will keep the buildings as a historical building before purchasing.
Maybe the city should look at all historical buildings in Edmonton and start the process of keeping our history alive before it's too late.

Leave the old in old strathcona. Can't get it back when it's gone. The uniqueness goes, and the people stop going there.

Is the area “historic” or isn’t it? Of course $$$ talks doesn’t it. It’ll have to be renamed New Strathcona. 😑

Leave the heritage buildings alone. There is already enough poorly built, cheap looking buildings on whyte, that have replaced older,sturdier and far better looking buildings.

Tired of beautiful buildings with historic value destroyed to make more ugly condominiums. The city's interest is financial only. More taxes to charge. Get over yourselves and quit destroying Edmonton. More condominiums will do nothing for the area, only look ugly like all the rest.

These old buildings are what makes Whyte Avenue. Take away the buildings and you have destroyed Whyte Avenue and the shopping and visitor experience. This is always the first place we go to when we have visitors from out of town. Edmonton is very quickly becoming a boring city. Why do you want to destroy what helps make Edmonton, Edmonton. Shame on you, this is not progress.

I think the development is great! Council should approve this application.

I want to see the Baron developed exactly as the developer has planned.

With the headwinds currently facing our province 2020 is not the time to restrict development in Alberta. Considering that the building is currently derelict and numerous ill-conceive renovations have hollowed out any semblance of historic value the proposed residential building is exactly what should be built in its place. The massing, construction method and mixed use nature of the Baron is a wonderful way to help Whyte Ave get back to its vibrant past.

The spirit of standing in the way of this type of progress would have never allowed the Archibald Block to be built in 1907. Let's stop pretending that its skeleton is an important enough keepsake to cancel this development plan.

Leave the buildings as they are! Stop destroying all of Edmonton’s history!

I like the idea of developing the site into a taller structure as long as the original face of the existing building is maintained and as long as the structure includes sufficient parking for residents.

This site has historical significance to the community and the city. Keep it DC1

No please!!! We need to keep and restore our old buildings!

Hate the idea. The old building built in 1909 is irreplaceable and is already on the historic board. I strongly believe that old Strathcona should remain as in tack and original as possible. The building they are planning on building would greatly take away from the feel and look of that historic block.

Please do not rip down the historic building on the site.

What the heck is wrong with people always wanting to knock stuff down!! It needs to stay up as it's part of history! In Europe old bldgs are kept (hence the history there but over we lose it all. Truly sad.