David Staples: Ice District taking shape with 'fantastic' plaza, says Edmonton designer

The most ambitious megaproject Edmonton has ever seen is rising in the sky in our downtown, but it’s still no sure thing that Daryl Katz’s Ice District is going to be a crowd pleaser.
To get a sense of where the Ice District is heading, I went on a tour of the area with Marcelo Figueira, an urban planner and designer with ParioPlan and a member of the Edmonton Design Committee, which reviews major building projects for the city. Of course, no Edmonton project is more major than the I