In 2017, after extensive negotiations/discussions with city planners, city council approved a revised Century Park master plan, reflecting current urban trends with more, but smaller apartment units.Elise Stolte, Postmedia Network
Two-parts businessman, one-part dreamer.
You don’t know him, but the fingerprints of George Schluessel, president and CEO of real-estate development company ProCura and the new Optown, are all over Edmonton.
ProCura is behind the re-boot of the 42-acre, 4,000-unit Century Park urban village, snugged in beside the LRT’s southwest terminal. By comparison, downtown Edmonton has 10,000 apartments/condos.
ProCura is now building Central Tower, the fifth of up to 10 architecturally impressive residential towers within Century Park’s grand urban plan.
Downtown, ProCura has transformed Jasper Avenue and 109 Street, re-fitting and re-imagining the once-aging Associated Engineering Tower (now WSP Place) and the gleaming black Intact office building. Two new ProC ...
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Adopt-A-Teen charity auction package: Oilers Past and Present.
Everything in this ONE OF A KIND package has been donated by Tom Braid. The proceeds of this auction will be 100% donated to the 2018 Edmonton Sun Adopt-a-Teen Christmas gift program for teens from under-privileged Edmonton families.
Bid by calling 780-965-1838. Bidding to start at $3000. Bidding ends at noon on Saturday, December 22, 2018.
*Signed Connor McDavid Jersey in jersey box with a colour action photo. The box is hinged, so the jersey can be worn and displayed. Retail value, $1,800.
*11"x14" colour signed and custom-framed Tom Braid photo of Wayne Gretzky holding the 1985 Stanley Cup over his head. (1984/85 Oilers were voted the best team in the history of the NHL). Retail value, $800
*Two Gold tickets for an Oilers game, value $800 for the pair. Your choice of one of four home Oiler games in February or March.
*Two pre-game dinner tickets inside Studio 99.
*Private screening of the exclusive Director's Cut for a ...
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Cool on cool: Blowers & Grafton's toasted, then cooled, mini-lobster rolls. GRAHAM HICKS/EDMONTON SUN
Blowers & Grafton – Halifax Street Food
10550 82 Ave.
780-250-3663
blowersgrafton.com
Food: 4 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 3.5 of 5 Suns
Service: 4.5 of 5 stars
Dinner for two excluding tip, taxes or beverages: Basic (i.e. pizza for two), $20; loaded $50
Delivery: Skipthedishes.com
11 a.m. to midnight seven days a week; Fri. and Sat. to 2 a.m.
Blowers & Grafton is an intersection in downtown Halifax.
Haligonians flock to “Pizza Corner” as the bars close down to soak up internal alcohol via pizzas and donairs – originally from three competing pizzerias, today from many more nearby street food outlets.
This is not mythology: Friends who have studied in Halifax attest to many a late-night pizza/donair party around Blowers & Grafton.
It’s also true that what’s now known as a donair – a North American variation on the Turkish doner ...
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Robyn Luff, MLA for Calgary-East poses for a photo in her Calgary office on Aug. 20, 2018.Al Charest/Postmedia
DOES ANYBODY KNOW THESE PEOPLE?
When the Alberta NDP government was elected in May of 2015, the same question reverberated through business circles. “Does anybody KNOW any of these people?”
Outside of their own constituencies, you still hardly see or hear from those NDP MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly) who are not cabinet ministers.
Representing Metropolitan Edmonton constituencies for the NDP are Erin Babcock, Jon Carson, Estefania Cortes-Vargas, Lorne Dach, Nicole Goehring, Trevor Horne, Jessica Littlewood, Rod Loyola, Annie McKitrick, Chris Nielsen, Marie Renaud, Heather Sweet, Bob Turner and Denise Woollard.
Does anybody even recognize their names? The only non-ministerial Edmonton NDP MLA with any kind of public profile is Edmonton Centre’s David Shepherd!
Now we know why. Calgary MLA Robyn Luff, kicked out of the NDP caucus for spilling confidenti ...
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The BUOK Bibimbap bowl: rice, veggies, bulgogi beef, chili sauce all topped with an egg. PHOTOS BY GRAHAM HICKS/EDMONTON SUN
BUOK Fresh Korean Kitchen
10707 100 Avenue
780-244-2865
buokfresh.ca
Tues. to Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (9 p.m. Thurs. and Fri.)
Sat. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Closed Sun./Mon.
No listed delivery service
Food: 3 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 3 of 5 Suns
Service: 4 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two excluding tip, taxes or beverages: Basic, $20; loaded $50
By GRAHAM HICKS
BUOK Fresh Korean Kitchen is disappointing, in a puzzling way.
The restaurant has worked hard at creating soul. Hands-on owner Henry Song is in the kitchen every hour BUOK is open and proudly greets his customers.
Song makes a big deal out of using his mother’s recipes, of making his sauces from scratch – especially the complex creation of BUOK’s in-house kimchi. The emphasis is on using fresh, fresh ingredients, as the name suggests.
Yes, the food is fresh – good on BUOK.
But ...
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Rendering of the North West side of the LNG Canada.Supplied / LNG Canada
By GRAHAM HICKS
Congrats to British Columbia.
But is that the sound of one-hand clapping?
It looks like the $40 billion – that’s BILLIONs, not MILLIONs – LNG Canada project/port is going ahead. At least all the permits and processes and environmental this ‘n’ thats have been approved.
LNG Canada will build a mega-specialized transfer port at Kitimat – in the same general region as Prince Rupert on the northern B.C. coast – to receive natural gas through as yet-unbuilt-but-approved pipelines from the Montney natural gas fields of northeastern B.C.
The gas shipped to the Kitimat plant will be super-cooled to the point of liquification, pumped into specialty LNG tankers and transported across the Pacific Ocean to countries where natural gas prices are five times higher than in North America.
Thanks to new drilling and extraction technologies, Canada and the ...
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The best Christmas party in town won’t be a one-night affair.
In fact, you’ll have 80-odd chances to enjoy the enormous musical fun of Canada 151, the Mayfield Dinner Theatre’s Christmas show, with eight shows a week through January 27, 2019.
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How could you not enjoy food consumed in such beautiful surroundings, being Seville in Spain. GRAHAM HICKS/EDMONTON SUNEdmonton
By Graham Hicks
Either Spain has it all figured out, with a fabulous lifestyle when it comes to food, drink and the timing thereof … or the Spaniards have the most cockamamie eating habits on Earth.
My wife and I are back in Edmonton after four weeks in Spain with a side-trip to Italy.
Maria loves Spain and Spanish food and the café culture. But her stomach works on North American time – she needs her morning snack, lunch at noon and dinner by 6:30 p.m. at the latest.
That is not how Spain operates: “how do Spaniards manage to dine at midnight,” once wrote former Sun columnist Eric Margolis of the mysteries of Europe, “hit the discos afterwards, then go to work the next morning?”
The Spanish do not rise before 8:30 a.m. (at this time of year, the dawn does not break before 8 a.m. and night falls by 8 p. ...
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The city skyline, in Edmonton Alta. on Tuesday May 10, 2016. Photo by David Bloom ... Stock photo STK skylineDavid Bloom / Postmedia Network
By GRAHAM HICKS
Edmonton’s high-tech companies often receive gobs of publicity when they are new-born, touted by government-funded economic development agencies as can’t-miss companies with breath-taking new technology.
The expectation is of instant success.
The reality is most new, innovative companies face 10 years of blood, sweat and tears, are chronically short of investment cash, barely make their payroll and take two steps back for every three steps forward.
Everybody is looking for the next Microsoft, Apple or Amazon.
That’s not going to happen. For most start-up companies, on-going success is A) not going out of business, B) being a sound, small business generating $3 to $5 million in revenues a year, making a niche product with 10 to 50 employees, and C) if a company does shut down, its principal partne ...
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The NAIT team's ribeye was one of the most impressive main dishes on offer at the FEASTival of Fine Chefs attended by over 1000 guests at the Shaw Conference Centre on Sept. 19, 2018. Photos by GRAHAM HICKS/EDMONTON SUN
FEASTival of Fine Chefs
Show Conference Centre
September 19, 2018
By Graham Hicks
It’s called FEASTival, it’s been around 30 years, and it’s a lot of fun.
On Sept. 19, the Shaw Conference Centre’s main exhibition hall is full. One thousand people have bought tickets or come as guests.
Around the walls are booths representing just about every major hotel restaurant in town, along with a few other dining facilities such as the Royal Glenora Club.
Every booth has a number.
Every guest has a number.
Master of Ceremonies Seanna Collins did a countdown. Three, two, one … GO!
Immediately, every person jumps up to pick up the first of four courses, looking for the booth number that corresponds to the number they hold for the evening.
The chefs a ...
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