Not gonna happen, the economics of a project like that would be a stretch in Calgary, let alone Edmonton.
Or to put it another way, the recently announced Telus Sky is a mixed use tower too (office and residential). It has a guaranteed tenant taking up the office space (Telus), and the Calgary market is relatively strong for the condos in the core too, and it has a killer location right in the heart of downtown.
Yet given all of those factors they are still choosing to only build around the 220m mark. One of the big factors is the cost of going above 60 floors (mainly due to elevator requirements) changes the costs dramatically.
Good on Edmonton for thinking big, but no way this goes ahead as planned at this point in time.
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