Building a new Northlands: City asks public, not architects, for more input

Housing or event space? City of Edmonton officials are looking to get public feedback on more than 100 ideas they received for redeveloping the former Northlands exhibition lands.
But don’t go expecting to see a competition of ideas from Edmonton’s best architects and developers.
City spokeswoman Jodi Tauber said planners took those ideas and consolidated common elements — bikes, housing, event space and others — and are seeking public reflections on that before developin