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Old Posted Sep 17, 2011, 5:58 AM
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How dare they build a multi million dollar cultural facility in downtown in an existing arts district. How dare they welcome thousands of students and tourists from across alberta to our downtown. How dare they tare down a windowless brick box postal distribution centre and turn it into a shiny glass structure with infinately better comunity integration with a link between chinatown and downtown which until now has been physically divided. Let's start a petition to have this development stopped. Its much better suited for the enoch casino site by the new arena! And while we are at it lets start a second petition to have perigrine point added to the list of historicaly important buildings.
By all means I am totally for getting this project going. I think what myself and others are really concerned about is the fact of how much of a greater impact this project COULD have. In the short term, this museum will have a great impact to that area and for our city. But 20-30 years from now it just going to be another current RAM, too small and barely visited. There will be demand for something greater. Its just not enough on a world class level, and the attraction will not be there in the future. IMO

BUT yes, better than a post office. I guess anything is better right now. Although not happy with design, I am very anxious and excited for this project.
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By all means I am totally for getting this project going. I think what myself and others are really concerned about is the fact of how much of a greater impact this project COULD have. In the short term, this museum will have a great impact to that area and for our city. But 20-30 years from now it just going to be another current RAM, too small and barely visited. There will be demand for something greater. Its just not enough on a world class level, and the attraction will not be there in the future. IMO

BUT yes, better than a post office. I guess anything is better right now. Although not happy with design, I am very anxious and excited for this project.
Something that a box allow you to do (and was a requirement of the RFP Process) is allow for future expansion upwards. Hard to go up on the AGA with those curves.
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Old Posted Oct 3, 2011, 6:32 PM
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Redford supports new Royal Alberta Museum, but wants to take another look at design
Reporter Trish Audette recently talked to Alison Redford about her concerns over the Royal Alberta Museum project. “I want to make sure we get it right.”

By TRISH AUDETTE

At a Sept. 20 press conference, before her recent leadership win, Progressive Conservative Premier-designate Alison Redford said she has questions about the province’s six-week competition to build the $340-million Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.
“I have some concerns about the design process in the Royal Alberta Museum, I think it’s an important institution, but there seem to be a lot of questions in Edmonton in terms of what the timing has been, in terms of what the design process looks like,” she said Tuesday. “But I think it’s an important project and it needs to be in Edmonton.”
Three weeks ago, the province announced Ledcor Group and Dialog Designs, with Toronto-based Lundholm Associates Architects, won the design competition, which first launched in April.

http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/201...esign-process/
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I'm glad to see Redford's support for the new RAM. I was worried that she'd cancel to help fund her education commitment.

I'm not sure if I want to see a renewed design competition that will drag on and on again. I'd be more in favor of major tweaking of the winning proposal.
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I'm glad to see Redford's support for the new RAM. I was worried that she'd cancel to help fund her education commitment.

I'm not sure if I want to see a renewed design competition that will drag on and on again. I'd be more in favor of major tweaking of the winning proposal.
Tweaks cost $$$. So do delay claims and escalation. If she delays the project or harms it in anyway the PC brand will pay a price at the polls.
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Delayed yet again

The feds aren't coming through with their previously committed $9x million, so the project is now on hold. A spokesperson for the Province claims that the government "remains committed to the project" but for now it's on hold.

When will the RAM ever get built? The timing of this announcement is curious given the arena vote at city council. So tell me again why we continue to vote for Ambrose, Goldring, Rajotte, et al? Taken for granted.
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The feds aren't coming through with their previously committed $9x million, so the project is now on hold. A spokesperson for the Province claims that the government "remains committed to the project" but for now it's on hold.

When will the RAM ever get built? The timing of this announcement is curious given the arena vote at city council. So tell me again why we continue to vote for Ambrose, Goldring, Rajotte, et al? Taken for granted.
Time for change - no Federal PC or Provincial PC.
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So does this mean no Museum?

Harper screws Edmonton yet again, after the expo debacle.
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This is too funny. The province delays the project continuously because it can't decide on a site, vision, budget, etc. Soon after they make a move feds pull funding committed to by Paul Martin's government (shows how long this project has been on the books for).

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Old Posted Oct 27, 2011, 2:12 AM
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So does this mean no Museum?

Harper screws Edmonton yet again, after the expo debacle.
Seriously, the MP who has done the most for Edmonton over the last 20 years is Anne McClellan , bar none (oilsands royalty changes in the mid 90s, CFB Edmonton, world track and field championships). Edmonton wants in!

If we were in Muskoka, Tony Clement would find a way to make it happen
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I find it really odd that the timing of this announcement comes just after the downtown arena is finally approved. Meanwhile, Harper has no problems throwing millions of dollars at the Calgary Stampede.
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The list goes on...................
National Portrait Gallery..... X
2017 Expo....................... X
Royal Alberta Museum ...... X

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I find it really odd that the timing of this announcement comes just after the downtown arena is finally approved. Meanwhile, Harper has no problems throwing millions of dollars at the Calgary Stampede.
Or billions for ships and fighter jets. It will be interesting to see how our local MPs spin this given the RAM betrayal comes on the heels of major federally funded project announcements.
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ive got a good idea. the city should change the letterhead for all its correspondences with the feds and provs to a Calgary address. Our MLA's and MP's are pretty stupid so maybe they will think it is from Calgary.
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Ambrose's office has said the commitment is still on - unclear whether all funding was pulled, just the boost announced in April, or still all of the cash is set to flow.
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