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The Apex Site property on Douglas Street at Humboldt Street in downtown Victoria, also known as the 'Budget Lot,' is the focus of a redevelopment effort known as TELUS Ocean, an innovation and employment hub for 250 TELUS employees, ground level retail space, and six levels of leasable office space.
The City of Victoria-owned Apex Site property was the subject of an early 2017 bidding process between six proponents. The City of Victoria opted to proceed with a development planning process and a land sale that ultimately saw partners Aryze Developments and TELUS co-operate on the TELUS Ocean concept.
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Telus Corp. marked the opening of its new 60-storey Calgary headquarters on Wednesday.
The new $400-million skyscraper, Telus Sky, has been in development for nine years and is now the third-tallest building in downtown Calgary. It features 750,000 square feet of office and retail space as well as 326 rental homes.
The building’s eye-catching design, by architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Dialog, along with developer partner Westbank and Allied, starts with a rectangular floorplate and then gradually twists as it rises.
A local historian says time is running out to dig for lost history at a downtown Victoria construction site.
Kelly Black, a history professor at Vancouver Island University and executive director of the Point Ellice House museum, said construction of the 10-storey Telus Ocean building is an opportunity to search for treasures linked to the rich but little known history of Kanaka Row, a community of small seaside cabins named for the Hawaiians who first lived there.
He said now, while the 28,000-square-foot lot east of the Empress Hotel is exposed in preparation for development, is likely the only time it will be possible to search for items linked to the community of Hawaiian, Indigenous, Chinese and European inhabitants and traders of roughly 170 years ago — before the artifacts are swallowed up by the development.
There's always some egghead that want's to spend somebody else's money, and to get their name in the newspaper.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure this little bit of previous construction in the picture was of sufficient size to warrant deep foundations, and there are lots of folks still alive that remember that it had a large basement as well.
In other words, any artifacts were definitely "disturbed" a century ago, and looking for them in 2022 would be a waste of time, a waste of resources, and (most importantly) a complete waste of somebody else's money:
Agreed. What value would there be in digging up the "artifacts"? It's mostly garbage anyway.
I think a three or four year moratorium on the site might be productive. It is the least that can be done to forward the equity of reconciliation.
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