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The residents of Downtown Edmonton are represented by the Downtown Edmonton Community League, established in 1999, which runs a community hall located at 100 Avenue and 103 Street. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Edmonton Oilers 's home arena, Rogers Place , is located in the north central part of downtown where it anchors the Ice District mixed-used ...
Edmonton Police Service vehicle at Downtown Headquarters. The Edmonton census metropolitan area (CMA) had a crime severity index of 84.5 in 2013, which is higher than the national average of 68.7. [307] Its crime severity index was the fifth-highest among CMAs in Canada behind Regina, Saskatoon, Kelowna and Vancouver. [307]
EPCOR Tower and CN Tower Winspear Centre is a major theatre and music centre in downtown Edmonton. Alberta Legislature Building; Art Gallery of Alberta (formerly Edmonton Art Gallery) Chinatown; Citadel Theatre; Edmonton City Hall; Edmonton Ski Club; EPCOR Tower (current tallest building in Edmonton by spire) Francis Winspear Centre for Music
On November 18, 2015, Edmonton City Centre announced that it planned to relocate and significantly upgrade its food court as part of a $41.3-million redevelopment investment that would revitalize the entire retail experience of the downtown property. [6] Construction was scheduled to begin in November 2015.
Churchill Square (officially "Sir Winston Churchill Square") is the main downtown square in Edmonton, Alberta, which plays host to a large number of festivals and events including: the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, [1] Edmonton Fashion Week, The Works Art & Design Festival, Taste of Edmonton, [2] Cariwest, and Edmonton Pride.
Edmonton's first true skyscraper, and the tallest building in Western Canada for five years, was the CN Tower, built in 1966. A building boom did not really begin until the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 , which prompted construction of many of the city's current tall buildings (17 of the top 20, as of 2019).
Edmonton's downtown core, officially named as Downtown, is generally bounded by 109 Street and 111 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, Grierson Hill and Rossdale Road to the southeast, and 97 Avenue and Rossdale Road to the south. [5] Development within Downtown is guided by the Capital City Downtown Plan. [7]
One of Edmonton's major hotels located in downtown Edmonton, the Chateau Lacombe was first opened on 28 December 1966 by the Canadian Pacific Hotels Corporation (CPH). It features 307 rooms in the 24-storey cylindrical tower topped by Edmonton's only revolving restaurant, La Ronde, which offers sweeping views of both the city's downtown core and the North Saskatchewan river valley below as it ...