Paula Simons: Landmark BMO Building could soon be history
Since 1984, the striking Bank of Montreal building on Rice-Howard Way has been a downtown Edmonton landmark.
With its huge walls of glass windows, the granite-clad six-storey building stood out from the highrises around it. If you were walking by, you could see right in. And if you were inside the BMO, with its high-vaulted ceiling and its natural daylight, you didn’t feel as though you were in some dark, stuffy old bank.
Today, the once-proud building sits empty. The bank, its ancho
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