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1000 5 Ave SW

Office · high-rise office building · built 1993 · 1000 5 Ave SW

LiDAR roof height52.5 m
Storey-equivalent (derived)13
Footprint984 m²
Parcel1,050 m²
Year built (roll)1993
Assessed 2026$6.0M
Structures on parcel1
Nearest CTrain327 m
Civic address
1000 5 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Community
Downtown West End (DNW)
City sub-property use
C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district
DC — Direct Control (Direct Control)
Height rank
#92 of 580 citywide · #3 of 17 in Downtown West End
Site coverage
94% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces
1 titled piece · roll 067243600
Coordinates
51.049269, -114.08387

Massing and site plan

Left: isometric massing of every LiDAR structure on the parcel, at true scale, viewed from the south-west with 3.9 m storey lines. Right: plan of the parcel with surrounding footprints, Plus 15 walkways and nearby stations. Open this building in the 3D city →

52.5 mN20 mLiDAR roof outlines · City of Calgary · true scale
52.5 m · 984 m²
3 m structure4.6 m structure5.7 m structure6.6 m structure18 m structure18.2 m structure33.8 m structure42.9 m structure48.5 m structure72.4 m structure87.1 m structure90.8 m structure52.5 m · 984 m² footprintN50 mFootprints within 150 m · City of Calgary
Context within 150 m. Grey footprints darken with height; lime is the Plus 15 network.

How it compares

Roof height against the Downtown West End median and tallest, and against the city.

1000 5 Ave SW52.5 mDowntown West End median22.4 mDowntown West End tallest83 mCalgary office median12.8 mCalgary tallest office roof243.2 m

Access

Public-geometry tests only; confirm routes, entrances and hours with the building.

CTrain

Nearest station: Downtown West - Kerby, 327 m straight-line (route 202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 1.1 km away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

Other office buildings near Downtown West - Kerby Station →

Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 197 m. Not on the network.

Assessment history

Assessed values are The City of Calgary’s taxation figures by roll year, not sale prices or rents; Alberta does not publish transaction prices.

Roll 067243600 · Office

Series not charted. The City’s published values for this roll number change by more than half or double between years, which usually signals a re-numbered, split or partially assessed account rather than a market movement. The published figures are listed below without a trend claim.

Published values by roll year
Roll yearAssessed valueChange
2005$8.9M
2006$14.8M65.4%
2007$25.5M72.9%
2008$26.5M3.8%
2009$25.6M-3.5%
2010$23.5M-8.1%
2011$11.1M-52.9%
2012$13.3M19.9%
2013$32.3M143.7%
2014$33.7M4.3%
2015$31.0M-8.1%
2016$25.7M-17.0%
2017$17.6M-31.6%
2018$13.3M-24.6%
2019$7.4M-44.5%
2020$6.4M-13.3%
2021$4.9M-22.6%
2022$3.9M-20.2%
2023$3.5M-10.9%
2024$4.7M32.8%
2025$6.3M36.1%
2026$6.0M-6.2%

Development and building permits

Applications the City has located on this parcel since 2012, from the Development Permits and Building Permits datasets.

0122012: 0 development permits2012: 1 building permit122013: 0 development permits2013: 0 building permits132014: 0 development permits2014: 0 building permits142015: 0 development permits2015: 0 building permits152016: 0 development permits2016: 0 building permits162017: 0 development permits2017: 1 building permit172018: 0 development permits2018: 0 building permits182019: 0 development permits2019: 0 building permits192020: 0 development permits2020: 0 building permits202021: 0 development permits2021: 0 building permits212022: 0 development permits2022: 2 building permits222023: 0 development permits2023: 1 building permit232024: 0 development permits2024: 1 building permit242025: 0 development permits2025: 1 building permit252026: 0 development permits2026: 1 building permit26Development permitsBuilding permits (non-residential)

Recent development permits 0 since 2012

None located on this parcel since 2012.

Recent building permits 8 since 2012 · 7 in the City’s office class

AppliedPermitClass · workEst. costStatus
2026-06-19BP2026-113323402 - Office · Improvement
Interior Alteration - CCSD Office
$1.0MIssued Permit
2025-07-15BP2025-136593402 - Office · Improvement
Office Interior Alteration
$310,000Completed
2024-05-31BP2024-106323402 - Office · Unspecified
Fire alarm repair/modification
$150,000Completed
2023-10-17BP2023-179493402 - Office · Improvement
Interior alteration
$150,000Completed
2022-10-25BP2022-179523402 - Office · Improvement
Office Interior Alteration
$65,000Completed
2022-09-13BP2022-156203402 - Office · Improvement
Interior Alteration - Office
$100,000Completed
2017-06-23BP2017-077843402 - Office · Improvement
Seventh floor office reno Rm 716
$100,000Completed
2012-10-03BP2012-138775299 - Medical Misc. · Improvement
Calgary Centre for Health
$10,000Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 8 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $1.9M. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval; applicant and contractor names are not reproduced.

Nearby office buildings

The six nearest office building sites in the record, by straight-line distance between parcel centroids.

  • 932 5 Ave SW42.9 m · built 1979 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 93 m
  • 518 922 5 Ave SW90.8 m · built 2006 · Office Condo · 7 accounts · Downtown Commercial Core · 120 m
  • 940 6 Ave SW48.5 m · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 121 m
  • 1011 6 Ave SW9.7 m · built 1980 · Office · Downtown West End · 171 m
  • 700 900 6 Ave SW42.2 m · built 1979 · Office Condo · 9 accounts · Downtown Commercial Core · 207 m
  • 1000 7 Ave SW46.2 m · built 1982 · Office · Downtown West End · 216 m

1000 5 Ave SW questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is 1000 5 Ave SW?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 52.5 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 13 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was 1000 5 Ave SW built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1993 as the year of construction.

Which CTrain station is closest to 1000 5 Ave SW?

Downtown West - Kerby Station, 327 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at 1000 5 Ave SW?

This profile is built from public records and does not track availability, rents or tenancy. Submit a private requirement and current options in the building or nearby will be confirmed through Commercially.

Public record sources: Current Year Property Assessments (Parcel), Historical Property Assessments (Parcel), Assessment Subproperty Use Codes, 3D Buildings - Citywide (LiDAR roof outlines), Land Use Districts, Transit LRT Stations, Green Line Stations, Plus 15, Historic Resource (Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources), Development Permits, Building Permits, Calgary Existing Buildings - Performance Metrics (BenchmarkYYC) — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-21. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. Building names, floor counts and architects, where shown, come from Wikidata (CC0). No brokerage, listing-data or commercial research source is used.

Boundary: Assessed values are the City’s assessment-roll figures for taxation and are not sale prices, asking rents, vacancy or availability; Alberta does not publish transaction prices. LiDAR heights are roof-surface elevations above the lowest ground point at the building perimeter and can differ from architectural heights. Storey equivalents are derived at 3.9 m per storey and are not floor counts. Distances are straight-line. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval and do not establish current use, tenancy or availability. Read the methodology.