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Northern Electric Co. Warehouse

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1912 · 102 11 Ave SE

LiDAR roof height21.8 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)6

Footprint582 m²

Parcel599 m²

Year built (roll)1912

Assessed 2026$1.4M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain426 m

Civic address: 102 11 Ave SE, Calgary, AB
Community: Beltline (BLN)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: CC-X — Centre City Mixed Use District (Commercial)
Height rank: #185 of 580 citywide · #45 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 97% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068115302
Coordinates: 51.042641, -114.062998

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 →

21.8 m · 582 m²

Context within 150 m. Grey footprints darken with height; lime is the Plus 15 network.

How it compares

Roof height against the Beltline median and tallest, and against the city.

Access

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

CTrain

Nearest station: Centre Street, 426 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 288 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 113 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources records the following on this parcel.

Northern Electric Co. Warehouse (Northern Electric & Manufacturing Co. Warehouse, The Mustard Seed)

Construction year: 1913
Architect: William John Carmichael
Builder: Fyshe, McNeill, Martin, Trainer, Engineers & Contractors
Style: Commercial
Typology: Warehouse
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

The 1913 Northern Electric Co. Warehouse possesses symbolic value for Calgary's early warehouse district located in today's Beltline community. (Symbolic Value, Community Significance)

The building, designed by William John Carmichael (1867-1927), Chief Architect for Northern Electric's parent company Bell Telephone from 1917-27, is valued as an example of the Edwardian Classical style used in industry. (Style Value, Community Significance)

The former distribution warehouse and sales offices, purpose-built and operated by Northern Electric to serve the rapidly growing telecommunications industry for three decades, possesses activity value for its association with that activity. It was later associated with scientific activity for four decades as Canadian Department of Agriculture laboratories. (Activity Value, Community Significance)

The Northern Electric Co. Warehouse is further valued

Character-defining elements: Key elements that define the heritage character of Northern Electric Co. Warehouse include its: - form, scale and massing as expressed by its four-storey, rectangular plan with narrow façade; - flat roof with brick parapets with moulded frieze (south and west façades); flagstaff; wide brick chimney; - reinforced concrete construction; concrete structural frame expressed in façade with concrete walls and heavy, rusticated piers on two lower storeys and smooth-finished concrete piers on two upper storeys; original red-brown brick cladding in common bond on east common wall, and stretcher bond on

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 324.

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 068115302 · 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 year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$1.4M	—
2006	$1.4M	5.1%
2007	$2.0M	41.3%
2008	$4.2M	107.4%
2009	$1.6M	-61.3%
2010	$4.0M	149.4%
2011	$3.2M	-21.0%
2012	$3.2M	0.0%
2013	$4.3M	36.4%
2014	$4.3M	-1.1%
2015	$4.3M	-0.2%
2016	$5.3M	23.1%
2017	$5.9M	12.5%
2018	$3.5M	-40.4%
2019	$2.6M	-26.6%
2020	$1.5M	-42.7%
2021	$1.4M	-4.0%
2022	$1.5M	2.1%
2023	$1.0M	-28.8%
2024	$1.0M	0.0%
2025	$1.2M	13.5%
2026	$1.4M	21.2%

Development and building permits

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

Recent development permits 2 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2017-10-18	DP2017-4798	Signs - Permitted Use with Relaxation NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGN) - HEIGHT	Released Approval
2017-05-29	DP2017-2229	Signs - Permitted Use NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGN)	Released Approval

Recent building permits 5 since 2012 · 0 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2025-03-21	BP2025-04891	5499 - Religious Misc. · Improvement Interior	$1.0M	Completed
2022-04-29	BP2022-07027	7103 - Special Function - Class 1 · Unspecified A2, Temporary	$500	Completed
2019-03-28	BP2019-03153	4002 - Vacant · Unspecified The Mustard Seed Stampede BBQ- Special Event	$2,000	Completed
2017-04-25	BP2017-04341	7103 - Special Function - Class 1 · New Special Event - Mustard Seed Stampede BBQ 2017	$2,000	Completed
2016-06-24	BP2016-07141	7103 - Special Function - Class 1 · New Special Event - Mustard Seed Stampede BBQ	$1,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 5 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $1.0M. 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.

110 11 Ave SE16.4 m · built 1911 · Office · Beltline · 17 m
121 10 Ave SE5.9 m · built 1952 · Office · Beltline · 84 m
110 11 Ave SW8.6 m · built 1974 · Office · Beltline · 88 m
1001 1 St SE18.2 m · built 1987 · Office · Beltline · 126 m
Customs House130 11 Ave SE25.3 m · built 1913 · Office · Beltline · 129 m
Palliser South140 10 Ave SE81.7 m · built 2010 · Office · Beltline · 154 m

Northern Electric Co. Warehouse questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Northern Electric Co. Warehouse?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 21.8 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 6 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Northern Electric Co. Warehouse built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1912 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1913.

Which CTrain station is closest to Northern Electric Co. Warehouse?

Centre Street Station, 426 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Northern Electric Co. Warehouse?

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.

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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.

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