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Customs House

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1913 · 130 11 Ave SE

LiDAR roof height25.3 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)6

Footprint2,053 m²

Parcel2,396 m²

Year built (roll)1913

Assessed 2026$9.5M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain423 m

Civic address: 130 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: #164 of 580 citywide · #36 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 86% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 3 titled pieces · roll 068114800
Coordinates: 51.042588, -114.061153

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 →

25.3 m · 2,053 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, 423 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 413 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 77 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

Customs House (Customs Examining Warehouse)

Construction year: 1916
Architect: Chief Architects Branch, Department of Public Works; Leo Dowler (local supervising architect)
Builder: Thomas McDiarmid Co.
Style: Chicago Commercial Style
Typology: Customs Building
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

Character-defining elements: The character-defining elements of the Customs House include, but are not limited to its: -Symmetrically balanced, rectangular, four-storey, flat-roof form; -Steel-frame and concrete construction with pressed, red-brick cladding (upper storeys) and rock-faced, Glenbow sandstone cladding laid in coursed ashlar (first-storey); -Brick detailing consisting of pilasters; -Sandstone detailing consisting of pilaster capitals and bases, window lintels and sills, continuous window hoods with keystones and the front doorway surround; -Substantial, block-modillion, sheet metal cornice; -Horizontally and

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 202.

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 068114800 · Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$3.5M	—
2006	$4.0M	16.2%
2007	$6.4M	58.5%
2008	$8.1M	27.5%
2009	$11.7M	43.7%
2010	$8.9M	-24.1%
2011	$6.5M	-27.1%
2012	$9.5M	46.7%
2013	$11.3M	19.4%
2014	$11.4M	0.7%
2015	$19.9M	74.6%
2016	$20.6M	3.7%
2017	$17.5M	-15.2%
2018	$20.6M	17.4%
2019	$11.9M	-42.1%
2020	$12.5M	4.8%
2021	$9.3M	-25.6%
2022	$11.2M	20.8%
2023	$10.8M	-3.7%
2024	$8.6M	-20.3%
2025	$9.9M	15.1%
2026	$9.5M	-4.0%

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
2015-05-28	DP2015-2235	Change of Use - Discretionary Use or Relaxations Required CHANGE OF USE: PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, ACCESSORY LIQUOR SERVICE	Released Approval
2014-03-06	DP2014-0970	Change of Use - With Change to Site Plan CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: OFFICE (GENERATOR & PARKING)	Released Approval

Recent building permits 9 since 2012 · 7 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2023-12-20	BP2023-21813	3402 - Office · Improvement Urban Systems Office Renovation - Interior Alterations	$500,000	Completed
2022-06-01	BP2022-09345	3402 - Office · Unspecified Repair Fire Alarm System	$27,000	Completed
2021-11-05	BP2021-19198	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior alterations (Customs House).	$2.6M	Completed
2020-08-25	BP2020-11735	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior alterations.	$220,000	Completed
2017-06-22	BP2017-07698	3402 - Office · Improvement Public Corridor Upgrade	$35,000	Completed
2017-05-05	BP2017-05029	3402 - Office · Improvement Urban Systems Offices on 1st&2nd floors	$1.8M	Completed
2017-04-26	BP2017-04418	4002 - Vacant · Improvement interior partition - demolitions only	$75,000	Completed
2014-05-14	BP2014-06872	2499 - Engineer/Utility Misc. · New Relocation and Replacement of Electrical Back up Generator	$149,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 9 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $5.5M. 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.

1001 1 St SE18.2 m · built 1987 · Office · Beltline · 46 m
Calgary Wine & Spirit Co. Warehouse102 206 11 Ave SE20.2 m · built 1907 · Office Condo · Beltline · 55 m
121 10 Ave SE5.9 m · built 1952 · Office · Beltline · 73 m
Imperial Tobacco Warehouse214 11 Ave SE22.1 m · built 1907 · Office Condo · Beltline · 85 m
Palliser South140 10 Ave SE81.7 m · built 2010 · Office · Beltline · 103 m
1119 1 St SE3.9 m · year n/a · Office · Beltline · 104 m

Customs House questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Customs House?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 25.3 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 6 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Customs House built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1913 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1916.

Which CTrain station is closest to Customs House?

Centre Street Station, 423 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Customs House?

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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