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Utilities Building

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1929 · 119 6 Ave SW

Utilities Building (119 6 Ave SW) is a 25.5 m mid-rise office building in Downtown Commercial Core, Calgary, recorded on the City assessment roll as built in 1929. Its main structure is the 178th tallest office roof of the 775 ranked in this record, and 97th of 119 in Downtown Commercial Core. The City assesses the parcel at $3.8M on the 2026 roll, 443rd of 822 sites in the record by assessed value. A Plus 15 walkway touches the parcel. The nearest CTrain platform is 1st Street SW, 68 m away in a straight line. 2,745 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of the parcel on a weekday. Since 2012 the City has recorded 15 building permits and 3 development permits on the parcel, the largest a $3.0M office permit for alteration, applied for in 2013. It appears on the City’s Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources as Utilities Building.

LiDAR roof height25.5 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)7

Footprint1,900 m²

Parcel1,929 m²

Year built (roll)1929

Assessed 2026$3.8M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain68 m

Civic address: 119 6 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Community: Downtown Commercial Core (DNC)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: CR20-C20/R20 — Commercial - Residential Core (Commercial - Core)
Height rank: #178 of 785 citywide · #97 of 111 in Downtown Commercial Core
Footprint to parcel: 99% of the parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 200601581
Coordinates: 51.047197, -114.063982

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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 →

25.5 m · 1,900 m²

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

How it compares

Roof height against the Downtown Commercial Core median and tallest, and against the city.

Access

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

CTrain

Nearest station: 1st Street SW, 68 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 272 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

The City’s Plus 15 walkway geometry touches this parcel; the plan above shows the connected segments in lime. Confirm access points, hours and the interior route with the building.

Cycling

The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m of the parcel is a protected lane (Cycle Track), 394 m away.

Winter access

The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route, 13 m from its edge. Priority 1 routes are cleared first after a snowfall.

Accessible crossing

The nearest accessible pedestrian signal is at 6 Avenue and Centre Street, 83 m from the parcel.

Straight-line tests against The City of Calgary Calgary Bikeways, Snow and Ice Clearing Priority Routes and Traffic Signals, retrieved 2026-09-24. Bikeways are ranked by the City's comfort level, where 1 is a protected lane and 4 a major street. Snow priority is a clearing order, not a clearing time. An accessible pedestrian signal gives audible and tactile crossing cues; a signal recorded as unknown is not counted as having none.

Transit service

Scheduled Calgary Transit service at the door, not only the distance to a platform.

2,745 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of this parcel on a representative weekday, 380 of them between 07:00 and 09:00, across 32 routes and 37 stops. The closest stop is WB 6 AV SW @ E. of 1 ST SW, 46 m away.

Service class	Trips on the service day
REGULAR	1,503
LRT	672
MAX	481
BRT	62
EXPRESS	27

Routes: 1 Bowness/Forest Lawn · 2 Mount Pleasant/Killarney 17 Av SW · 3 Sandstone/Elbow Dr SW · 4 Huntington · 5 North Haven · 6 Killarney/26 Av SW · 7 Marda Loop · 10 City Hall/Southcentre · 13 Altadore · 15 Deerfoot Meadows · 17 Renfrew/Ramsay · 22 Richmond Rd SW · 24 Ogden · 62 Hidden Valley · 64 MacEwan · 66 Lakeview · 90 Bridgeland/University of Calgary · 101 Inglewood · 109 Harvest Hills · 116 Coventry Hills · 117 McKenzie Towne Express · 131 East Bow Express · 142 Panorama · 151 New Brighton Express · 201 Red Line - Somerset - Bridlewood/Tuscany CTrain · 202 Blue Line - Saddletowne/69 Street CTrain · 302 BRT Southeast/City Centre · 500 Airport Express · 503 Symons Valley Express · MG MAX Green North Pointe/ City Centre · MP MAX Purple City Centre/East Hills · MY MAX Yellow Woodpark/City Centre.

Calgary Transit Scheduling Data (GTFS), service day 2026-09-28 inside the 2026-09-15 to 2026-12-20 service period. A trip is counted once however many stops it calls at inside the radius. Schedules change each service period; this is the schedule, not observed service.

Parking

What the City’s own tariff record says about kerbside parking beside this parcel.

Paid on-street parking within 200 m

196 metered stalls across 22 City parking zones touching this walking radius, at $1.00 to $4.75 per hour depending on zone and time of day. Maximum stay 30 to 120 minutes. Tariff zones 4a, 4c.

Enforced 0710-1750 MON-FRI, 0910-1750 SAT; 0710-1750 MON-FRI,0910-1750 SAT; 0710-1750 MON-SAT; 0840-1520 MON-FRI, 0910-1750 SAT.

Closest zone

6 Av SW, Fr Centre St S To 1 St SW — 4 m from the parcel, 19 parallel stalls, tariff zone 4a, 120-minute maximum.

When	Rate
Mon-Fri 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM	$3.75 per Hour
Mon-Fri 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM	$4.50 per Hour
Mon-Fri 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM	$3.75 per Hour
No Parking at this time	See Street Signs
Saturday: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM	$1.00 per Hour
Sunday/Holidays:	Free parking
Free parking to 7 AM Mon-Fri	See Signs /Parking Restrictions

The City of Calgary On-Street Parking Zones with Rates, retrieved 2026-09-24. Counts cover Active paid parking zones only: loading bays, taxi stands, accessible stalls and permit-only zones are excluded, and off-street parkades are not in this dataset. Tariffs and enforcement hours change; confirm on the sign.

Heritage inventory

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

Utilities Building

Construction year: 1939
Architect: McIlroy, D.S.
Style: Art Moderne
Typology: Office
Development era: 1930 to 1939 (Depression)
Original use: Government
Planning theme: Politics and Government
Designation: Inventory listing only
Inventory class: CWHR

Constructed in 1939, the City of Calgary Utilities Building was the largest single building project completed in downtown Calgary at the close of the Depression. Utilizing a self-liquidating loan scheme this civic works program was carried out under the Federal Municipal Assistance Improvement Act. Thus, the undertaking was cooperatively financed by both the Federal government and The City. When completed, the project cost $100,000; $89,000 of which was borrowed from the Federal government at the rate of 2% per annum. A boost to the economy, the project was tendered to enhance the employment of the city's skilled workers, providing work for fifty men each day. The utility departments had previously maintained administrative offices in the basement of City Hall (from 1911). With the new building, both the Electric Light System and the Waterworks Department were relocated to the same lo

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 558.

AGT Building

Construction year: 1929
Architect: Rule, Peter
Style: Art Deco
Typology: Communications Facility
Development era: 1919 to 1929 (Post WWI to Stock Market Crash)
Original use: Industry
Planning theme: Urban Development
Designation: Inventory listing only
Inventory class: CWHR

Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) built this 4-storey structure as its Calgary headquarters in 1929. Peter Rule, architect for A.G.T., designed the building, and Fordyce and Stevenson, an important local architectural firm, were consulting architects. The building has a steel structure, faced in brown brick with Tyndall stone trim. It is significant for having had the first automatic elevators in Alberta, and for an innovative floor construction that allowed for better circulation of electrical wires and conduits. The building is an excellent example of the commercial architectural style of the time in which elements derived from the Gothic Revival (such as the buttress-like piers and the crenellated parapet) are combined with geometric Moderne forms. (1991)

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 458.

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 200601581 · 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	$3.5M	—
2006	$5.6M	57.5%
2007	$16.3M	192.3%
2008	$23.7M	45.2%
2009	$25.6M	8.1%
2010	$18.3M	-28.8%
2011	$8.9M	-51.2%
2012	$15.6M	75.1%
2013	$28.6M	83.7%
2014	$32.3M	12.9%
2015	$32.0M	-1.1%
2016	$18.7M	-41.5%
2017	$11.7M	-37.7%
2018	$11.3M	-2.7%
2019	$10.7M	-5.6%
2020	$10.4M	-2.7%
2021	$10.4M	-0.2%
2022	$8.6M	-17.2%
2023	$7.5M	-12.2%
2024	$8.0M	5.6%
2025	$4.6M	-41.8%
2026	$3.8M	-17.5%

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 3 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2015-11-24	DP2015-4864	Signs - Permitted Use NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGNS - 2)	Released Approval
2015-07-31	DP2015-3239	Renovations - Non-Residential EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: MULTI-USE COMMERCIAL (DOOR REMOVAL), CHANGE OF USE: INTERIOR CHANGES TO +15	Released Approval
2013-04-12	DP2013-1531	Change of Use - With Change to Site Plan REVISION: CHANGES TO OUTSIDE OF BUILDING (ROOFTOP STORAGE UNITS)	Released Approval

Recent building permits 15 since 2012 · 15 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2026-07-24	BP2026-13922	3402 - Office · Alteration Interior alterations	$210,000	Issued Permit
2025-12-10	BP2025-23502	3402 - Office · Alteration Interior alterations - Holland Office Fit-Out	$100,000	Issued Permit
2025-11-20	BP2025-22403	3402 - Office · Alteration Interior Alterations	$190,000	Issued Permit
2025-11-14	BP2025-22097	3402 - Office · Alteration interior alterations - Telephone Show Suite	$368,700	Completed
2025-02-12	BP2025-02556	3402 - Office · Alteration Interior alterations	$575,000	Completed
2024-07-25	BP2024-15243	3402 - Office · Alteration Calgary Police Community Counter at Telephone Building	$38,344	Completed
2024-07-10	BP2024-13932	3402 - Office · Alteration Landlord Work - Washroom Addition	$90,000	Completed
2018-03-16	BP2018-02827	3402 - Office · Alteration Interior alterations	$101,840	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 15 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $5.6M. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval; applicant and contractor names are not reproduced.

Inspections

What City inspectors recorded against the permits on this parcel.

28 inspection results are published against 9 of the 15 building permits on this parcel, from 2013-10-08 to 2026-07-31. The most recent occupancy inspection was accepted on 2013-12-23. 3 inspections used a life-safety checklist.

What was inspected

Result of each visit

Outcome	Inspections
Acceptable	16
Acceptable with Conditions	6
Acceptable Add Inspection	6

Stage

Inspection type	Count
Progress	19
Final	8
Occupancy	1

The 14 most recent inspection results

Date	Permit	Stage	Checklist	Outcome	Inspector note
2026-07-31	BP2024-15243	Final	All Directives	Acceptable	No deficiencies noted. No further building inspections required. File Closed.
2026-07-31	BP2024-15243	Progress	All Directives	Acceptable	No deficiencies noted. No further building inspections are required.
2026-05-11	BP2025-22097	Final	All Directives	Acceptable	No deficiencies noted. No further building inspections required. File Closed.
2025-08-20	BP2025-02556	Final	All Directives	Acceptable	No deficiencies noted. No further building inspections are required.
2024-12-10	BP2024-13932	Final	All Directives	Acceptable with Conditions	Correct noted deficiencies. No further building inspections are required.
2024-12-10	BP2024-13932	Progress	All Directives	Acceptable with Conditions	Correct noted deficiencies. No further building inspections are required.
2024-12-10	BP2024-13932	Progress	NBC AE 3.8. Accessibility	Acceptable with Conditions	NBC AE Division B 3.8.3.13. Universal Washrooms - Install coat hook as per barrier free design.
2018-05-02	BP2018-02827	Final	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable	Final inspection completed. No deficiencies noted. Received sprinkler verification. Permit file closed.
2018-04-04	BP2018-02827	Progress	FIRE ALARM SYSTEM	Acceptable Add Inspection	3.2.4.5 Fire alarm system to conform to code and standard
2018-04-04	BP2018-02827	Progress	DOCUMENTS Commercial	Acceptable Add Inspection	Sprinkler Verification required.
2018-04-04	BP2018-02827	Progress	DOCUMENTS Commercial	Acceptable Add Inspection	Fire Alarm Verification required if alterations have been made to the existing system.
2018-04-04	BP2018-02827	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable Add Inspection	Minor demolition work is complete. Call for final inspection next.
2015-11-09	BP2015-11880	Final	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable with Conditions	File complete upon receipt of documents - final inspection completed. File will be closed once document received.
2015-10-06	BP2015-11880	Progress	FIRESTOPPING	Acceptable with Conditions	Fire stopping to be an approved tested method. - provide at final

An inspection result is a record of one visit, not a verdict on the building. In the City's process a Not Acceptable result is an ordinary step: the inspector lists what must change and the work is re-inspected, which is why the most common outcome across the record is Acceptable Add Inspection. Most results relate to a single tenant improvement rather than the whole building. Inspector notes are The City of Calgary's own text at retrieval, with contact details removed; applicant and contractor names are never read.

The City of Calgary Building Inspections Results, joined to building permits by permit number, retrieved 2026-09-24.

Occupiers and licensed businesses

The public record of who operates on the parcel, labelled by source.

Businesses licensed by the City on this parcel 0 as of 2026-09-24

No City of Calgary business licence is recorded at this address or inside this parcel.

Not a tenant roster. The City licenses specific business types (retail, food service, personal services, contractors, wholesalers, schools and similar). Most office occupiers such as professional firms need no municipal licence and do not appear here. Matched by civic address and by licence location inside the parcel; home-based licences are excluded.

No individuals are named. The City issues many personal-service licences to people trading under their own name. Suite numbers are never published, and where a licence reads as an individual rather than an organisation the name is withheld and only the licence category is shown. Names of sources this site does not use are omitted.

Nearby office buildings

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

Telus Sky685 Centre St SW225.6 m · built 2014 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 55 m
622 1 St SW84.9 m · built 1958 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 60 m
Lougheed Building604 1 St SW28.3 m · built 1911 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 64 m
Oddfellows' Temple (Chamber of Commerce)100 6 Ave SW20.1 m · built 1912 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 70 m
110R 6 Ave SWheight n/a · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 75 m
Suncor Energy Centre117 5 Ave SW217.1 m · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 87 m

Where this building sits in the record

Every collection this building belongs to, from the same public data shown above.

Downtown Commercial Core office buildings Southwest Calgary All Office sites Built in the 1920s Land use CR20-C20/R20 Plus 15 connected buildings Heritage office buildings Named office buildings Paid street parking Office buildings near CTrain Transit service ranking Assessment cycle 2015–2026 Construction record

Utilities Building questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Utilities Building?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 25.5 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 7 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Utilities Building built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1929 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1939.

What is the assessed value of Utilities Building?

The City of Calgary assesses this parcel at $3.8M in total on the 2026 roll, 443rd of 822 sites in this record. Assessed value is the City’s figure for property tax, not a sale price or an asking price.

What is Utilities Building zoned?

The parcel is designated CR20-C20/R20, Commercial - Residential Core, under the City of Calgary Land Use Bylaw. Confirm the designation and any amendments with the City before relying on it.

Which CTrain station is closest to Utilities Building?

1st Street SW Station, 68 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Who is in Utilities Building?

No City of Calgary business licence is recorded at this address or inside the parcel. Most office occupiers such as professional firms do not need a municipal licence, so the register is not a tenant roster.

Has Utilities Building been inspected?

The City publishes 28 inspection results against 9 permits here, between 2013-10-08 and 2026-07-31. 3 used a life-safety checklist such as fire separations, firestopping or emergency lighting. The most recent occupancy inspection was accepted on 2013-12-23. Each result records one visit and most relate to a single tenant improvement, so this is not a verdict on the building.

How good is transit at Utilities Building?

2,745 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of the parcel on a representative weekday, 380 of them in the morning peak, across 32 routes. The closest stop is WB 6 AV SW @ E. of 1 ST SW, 46 m away. That is the published schedule for one service period, not observed service, and it counts each trip once however many stops it makes nearby.

Can staff cycle or get there in winter at Utilities Building?

The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m is a protected lane, 394 m away. The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route. These are straight-line tests against City layers.

Where can visitors park at Utilities Building?

The City of Calgary's tariff record shows 196 paid on-street stalls in 22 zones within 200 m of the parcel, at $1.00 to $4.75 per hour. The closest is 6 Av SW, Fr Centre St S To 1 St SW, 4 m away. Loading bays, taxi stands, accessible stalls and off-street parkades are not counted, and rates change, so confirm on the sign.

Is office space available at Utilities Building?

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), Calgary Business Licenses, On-Street Parking Zones with Rates, Building Inspections Results, Residential Parking Zones, Snow and Ice Clearing Priority Routes, Traffic Signals, Calgary Bikeways — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-24. 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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