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Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta. Located at the geographical centre of the city, the downtown area is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue and Rossdale Road to the south, and the North Saskatchewan River to the southeast.
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
The neighbourhood borders downtown Edmonton. Edmonton is divided into 375 neighbourhoods [128] within seven geographic sectors – a mature area sector, which includes neighbourhoods that were essentially built out before 1970, [129] and six surrounding suburban sectors. [130] Edmonton's Downtown is within the city's mature area or inner city ...
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]
The Edmonton Pedway system is a pedestrian network connecting office buildings, shopping centres, and parkades in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It consists of approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) of year-round climate-controlled tunnels , and walkways between the second floors of buildings, approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) above ground.
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 central core comprises Downtown Edmonton and its 11 surrounding neighbourhoods including Boyle Street, Central McDougall, McCauley, Oliver, Queen Mary Park, Riverdale and Rossdale on the north side of the North Saskatchewan River and Cloverdale, Garneau, Strathcona and the University of Alberta on the south side of the river. [3]
This main artery extends all the way to downtown Edmonton to the south, and passes within a few city blocks of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) about halfway between Elsinore and downtown. Canadian Forces Base Edmonton is located a short distance to the north of the city, with easy access along 97 Street.