EDMONTON — Boyle Street Community Services announced plans Thursday morning for a $60 million redevelopment plan in downtown Edmonton.
The organization hopes to build a mixed use development on 101 Street and 105 Avenue. Four floors of the building would be used to house Edmonton’s homeless and working poor.
Market priced housing would be available on the upper floors to help bring in additional money for the building.
The new building will also include a daycare and palliative and post acute care beds. Around-the-clock access to laundry, showers and washrooms will also be provided.
The plan also includes a bank, bistro and 18 boutique hotel rooms.
Boyle Street Community Services says the idea is to generate revenue to help provide more support services to vulnerable Edmontonians.
“It’s important symbolically to remain here. We serve a community that has been often invisible in our city and invisible in our society, marginalized, displaced. And we felt it was important that in creating a city that’s for everyone, an inclusive Edmonton, that we part of that and we be at the heart of our city,” said Julian Daly, executive director of Boyle Street Community Services.
Funding for the project has not yet been finalized, but the organization hopes to have it in place within the next year. Organizers with the project believe all three levels of government will want to get involved.
If the project receives funding it’s hoped construction will begin sometime in the next year and will take about two years to build.
Boyle Street Community Services is a non-profit agency which assists individuals and families challenged by homelessness and poverty.
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