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Donnelly, Watson & Brown Warehouse

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1919 · 224 11 Ave SW

LiDAR roof height27.5 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)7

Footprint409 m²

Parcel486 m²

Year built (roll)1919

Assessed 2026$1.1M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain452 m

Civic address: 224 11 Ave SW, 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: #152 of 580 citywide · #30 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 84% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 203160767
Coordinates: 51.04276, -114.067239

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 →

27.5 m · 409 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: 3rd Street SW, 452 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 92 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 164 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

Donnelly, Watson & Brown Warehouse

Construction year: 1910
Architect: Crapton, Ed
Builder: J.A. Girvin & Co.
Style: Commercial
Typology: Warehouse
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

It is an excellent example in Calgary of Romanesque Revival-style warehouse architecture, characterized by a heavily corbelled cornice, rock-faced sandstone detailing and a buttressed foundation. [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: citywide 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: - three storey, rectangular plan with flat roof; - heavy-timber and load-bearing brick construction; high-quality red-brick main façade comprising a heavily corbelled roofline cornice; - rock-faced sandstone detailing including sills, a slightly buttressed foundation; - fenestration, comprising nearly symmetrical main (south) façade with rectangular windows; small, segmental-arched windows on secondary facades; - fire escapes on the west facade; - painted ghost signs for CCM and Alberta Paint & Glass Co., on west facade of building; and - context of structure, built to front and side lot lines

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 328.

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 203160767 · Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2024	$955,500	—
2025	$1.3M	37.1%
2026	$1.1M	-12.2%

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 1 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2012-02-22	DP2012-0661	Signs - Permitted Use SIGN - CLASS D: PROJECTING SIGNS (4)	Released Approval

Recent building permits 2 since 2012 · 2 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2016-03-31	BP2016-02863	3402 - Office · Improvement Road Lawyers¿ Office Renovation on basement floor	$137,029	Completed
2015-08-07	BP2015-10156	3402 - Office · Improvement Tenant Improvement - Soil Improvements	$1.0M	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 2 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $1.2M. 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.

214 11 Ave SW60 m · built 2015 · Office · Beltline · 37 m
Scott Fruit Co. & Lowney Wm. Co.215 10 Ave SW16.6 m · built 1920 · Office · Beltline · 64 m
1011 1 St SWheight n/a · built 1978 · Office · Beltline · 81 m
227 11 Ave SW31.3 m · built 2002 · Office · Beltline · 82 m
Metals Limited Warehouse326 11 Ave SW34.5 m · built 1970 · Office · Beltline · 120 m
G.F. & J. Galt & Co. Wholesale Grocers Warehouse313 10 Ave SWheight n/a · built 1915 · Office · Beltline · 160 m

Donnelly, Watson & Brown Warehouse questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Donnelly, Watson & Brown Warehouse?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 27.5 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 7 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Donnelly, Watson & Brown Warehouse built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1919 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1910.

Which CTrain station is closest to Donnelly, Watson & Brown Warehouse?

3rd Street SW Station, 452 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Donnelly, Watson & Brown 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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