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AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange

Small Office · low-rise office building · built 1952 · 1510 Kensington Rd NW

LiDAR roof height8.5 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)2

Footprint420 m²

Parcel1,022 m²

Year built (roll)1952

Assessed 2026$2.5M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain823 m

Civic address: 1510 Kensington Rd NW, Calgary, AB
Community: Hillhurst (HIL)
City sub-property use: C102 Small Office · all Small Office sites
Land use district: C-COR2 — Commercial - Corridor 2 (Commercial)
Height rank: #425 of 580 citywide · #7 of 10 in Hillhurst
Site coverage: 41% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 059159905
Coordinates: 51.052727, -114.095154

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 →

8.5 m · 420 m²

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

How it compares

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

Access

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

CTrain

Nearest station: Downtown West - Kerby, 823 m straight-line (route 202).

Plus 15

Outside the Plus 15 network area.

Heritage inventory

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

AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange

Construction year: 1922
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Unknown
Style: Edwardian Classical
Typology: Communications Facility
Development era: 1919 to 1929 (Post WWI to Stock Market Crash)
Designation: Inventory listing only

Alberta Government Telephones expanded its Calgary service widely in the years following World War I. This automatic exchange, originally called the Louise Exchange, was built to serve the Hillhurst district in 1922. It was presumably designed by the Provincial Department of Public Works, and construction was supervised by AGT's Jack McKibbin. The rectangular brick building is of a simple yet good design, with quality brick work highlighted by fine arches around the windows and by horizontal string courses.

The building remains as originally constructed, even the original window frames are intact. It forms part of a very good streetscape, although one with few historic buildings. (1982)

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 382.

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 059159905 · Small Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$628,000	—
2006	$793,500	26.4%
2007	$1.2M	55.0%
2008	$1.6M	29.3%
2009	$1.8M	10.7%
2010	$1.1M	-35.8%
2011	$803,500	-28.9%
2012	$939,000	16.9%
2013	$1.1M	17.1%
2014	$1.9M	70.0%
2015	$1.4M	-25.1%
2016	$1.5M	4.3%
2017	$2.0M	36.3%
2018	$1.1M	-45.5%
2019	$1.9M	77.9%
2020	$1.9M	0.0%
2021	$1.7M	-11.9%
2022	$1.9M	10.6%
2023	$2.0M	5.9%
2024	$2.0M	0.0%
2025	$2.0M	3.0%
2026	$2.5M	20.0%

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 1 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2020-10-19	DP2020-6614	Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: FITNESS CENTRE, RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE	Released Approval

Recent building permits 3 since 2012 · 1 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2022-03-19	BP2022-04144	3106 - Retail Shop · Improvement Interior Alterations	$9,000	Completed
2022-01-31	BP2022-01431	3703 - Beauty Shop · Improvement Tenant fitout	—	Completed
2014-03-12	BP2014-03063	3402 - Office · Improvement INTERIOR PARTITION	$90,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 3 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $99,000. 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.

1609 Kensington Rd NW7.2 m · built 1964 · Small Office · Hillhurst · 53 m
1702 Kensington Rd NW5.7 m · year n/a · Office Condo · Hillhurst · 203 m
205 1170 Kensington Cres NW11.6 m · built 2006 · Office Condo · Hillhurst · 358 m
1220 Kensington Rd NW16.1 m · built 1973 · Small Office · Hillhurst · 372 m
104 429 14 St NW23.5 m · built 1970 · Office Condo · 4 accounts · Hillhurst · 410 m
1204 Kensington Rd NW15.9 m · built 1981 · Small Office · Hillhurst · 424 m

AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 8.5 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 2 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1952 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1922.

Which CTrain station is closest to AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange?

Downtown West - Kerby Station, 823 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at AGT Building - Hillhurst Exchange?

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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