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Imperial Tobacco Warehouse

Office Condo · mid-rise office building · built 1907 · 214 11 Ave SE

LiDAR roof height22.1 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)6

Footprint1,482 m²

Parcel2,025 m²

Year built (roll)1907

Assessed 2026$1.2M

Structures on parcel3

Nearest CTrain442 m

Civic address: 214 11 Ave SE, Calgary, AB
Community: Beltline (BLN)
City sub-property use: C121 Office Condo · all Office Condo sites
Land use district: CC-X — Centre City Mixed Use District (Commercial)
Height rank: #183 of 580 citywide · #44 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 73% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068559129
Coordinates: 51.042557, -114.059934

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 →

22.1 m · 525 m² · 17.6 m · 880 m² · 5.4 m · 77 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, 442 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 496 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 112 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

Imperial Tobacco Warehouse

Construction year: 1929
Architect: Imperial Tobacco;s Engineering Department; supervising architect Stevenson & Fordyce
Builder: Bennett & White
Style: Commercial
Typology: Warehouse
Development era: 1919 to 1929 (Post WWI to Stock Market Crash)
Designation: Inventory listing only

This site is significant because:

- It is one of the warehouse district's best architectural examples dating from the 1920s. Its appearance was very cutting-edge at the time, with its clearly exposed structural components such as the piers and concrete frame highlighted rather than hidden. [Style value: community significance]

- its contribution to Calgary's historic wholesale/warehouse district, recalls Calgary's historic status as the most important wholesale and distribution centre between Winnipeg and Vancouver. [Activity value: city-wide significance]

- it contributed to the development of the northern Beltline area as Calgary's main wholesale/warehouse district, and continues to contribute to the warehouse district's historic identity and character. [Symbolic value: community significance]

Character-defining elements: Character-defining elements of the property include, but are not limited to, the following: - Four-storey, flat-roof form, two bays wide and five deep; - Reinforced concrete construction with exposed, parged, concrete frame and piers; pressed, `Redcliff' red-brick common-bond walls and low, stylized parapets; moulded, cast concrete roofline cornice; concrete window sills; decorative diamond-shaped, red-tile insets atop piers ; moulded, aggregate main entry surround; - Fenestration, consisting of large, square, upper-storey openings and single, rectangular, ground-floor openings; - Off-centre,

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 325.

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 068559129 · Office Condo

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	$1.2M	—
2006	$1.3M	11.1%
2007	$1.5M	12.3%
2008	$2.8M	92.5%
2009	$3.6M	27.4%
2010	$3.6M	0.0%
2011	$4.8M	33.5%
2012	$3.2M	-33.5%
2013	$3.4M	6.3%
2014	$4.3M	26.3%
2015	$4.2M	-0.7%
2016	$5.5M	29.7%
2017	$3.2M	-41.8%
2018	$3.2M	0.6%
2019	$3.6M	12.1%
2020	$4.7M	29.4%
2021	$4.0M	-15.2%
2022	$3.2M	-19.9%
2023	$2.8M	-12.9%
2024	$2.7M	-3.3%
2025	$2.8M	3.4%
2026	$1.2M	-56.5%

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 6 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2019-11-06	DP2019-5723	Renovations - Non-Residential EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: MULTI-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (NEW BALCONY)	Released Approval
2017-01-26	DP2017-0318	Home Occupation Class 2 TEMPORARY USE: HOME OCCUPATION - CLASS 2 (PHOTOGRAPHER - 5 YEARS)	Released Approval
2015-11-17	DP2015-4776	Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE	Released Approval
2014-04-21	DP2014-1763	Home Occupation Class 2 TEMPORARY USE: HOME OCCUPATION - CLASS 2 (PHOTOGRAPHER - 1 YEAR)	Expired Approval
2013-05-21	DP2013-2086	Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: PRINT CENTRE, RETAIL AND CONSUMER SERVICE	Released Approval
2012-02-02	DP2012-0379	Home Occupation Class 2 HOME OCCUPATION - CLASS 2: PHOTOGRAPHER [FIVE YEARS]	Expired Approval

Recent building permits 1 since 2012 · 0 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2022-03-21	BP2022-04224	3106 - Retail Shop · Improvement	—	Cancelled

Declared estimated project cost across all 1 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $0. 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.

Calgary Wine & Spirit Co. Warehouse102 206 11 Ave SE20.2 m · built 1907 · Office Condo · Beltline · 31 m
110 221 10 Ave SE16.8 m · built 2003 · Office Condo · 9 accounts · Beltline · 60 m
238 11 Ave SE13 m · built 1957 · Office · Beltline · 64 m
200 225 11 Ave SEheight n/a · built 2011 · Office · Beltline · 68 m
1100 1 St SE98.9 m · built 2009 · Office · Beltline · 83 m
Customs House130 11 Ave SE25.3 m · built 1913 · Office · Beltline · 85 m

Imperial Tobacco Warehouse questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Imperial Tobacco Warehouse?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 22.1 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 6 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Imperial Tobacco Warehouse built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1907 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1929.

Which CTrain station is closest to Imperial Tobacco Warehouse?

Centre Street Station, 442 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Imperial Tobacco 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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