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Calgary Labour Temple

Office · low-rise office building · built 1952 · 229 11 Ave SE

LiDAR roof height10.2 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)3

Footprint556 m²

Parcel610 m²

Year built (roll)1952

Assessed 2026$919,000

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain379 m

Civic address: 229 11 Ave SE, Calgary, AB
Community: Beltline (BLN)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: DC — Direct Control (Direct Control)
Height rank: #356 of 580 citywide · #96 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 91% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 202103917
Coordinates: 51.041966, -114.05901

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 →

10.2 m · 556 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: Victoria Park/Stampede, 379 m straight-line (route 201). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 576 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 217 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

Calgary Labour Temple

Construction year: 1912
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Calgary Labor Temple Company
Style: Edwardian Commercial
Typology: Office
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

Realizing the necessity for a central meeting place, the trade unionists in Calgary organized the Calgary Labour Temple Company in 1912 to erect a suitable labour building. With a capitalization of $75,000, the group erected what was hoped to be a temporary hall on 11 Avenue between 1 and 2 Streets E. The hall became the centre of union activity in the city, and the home of the Calgary Trades and Labour Council, first formulated in 1905.

Initially a one-storey building, it was redeveloped in 1954. Although expansion plans were considered as early as 1931, when architects Fordyce & Stevenson were commissioned to remodel the structure, attempts were interrupted by economic downturns and the Second World War. A simple, rectangular building, the structure is distinguised by brickwork that gives the impression of arches over the entrance and first-storey windows. The 1954 second-storey addi

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 204.

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 202103917 · 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
2016	$3.3M	—
2017	$3.4M	3.0%
2018	$1.3M	-60.4%
2019	$1.4M	0.7%
2020	$1.3M	-5.9%
2021	$1.3M	-0.8%
2022	$1.3M	2.4%
2023	$797,500	-38.2%
2024	$1.1M	31.7%
2025	$910,000	-13.3%
2026	$919,000	1.0%

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
2022-11-26	DP2022-08105	Signs - Permitted Use NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGN)	Released Approval

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

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2018-11-30	BP2018-15706	3402 - Office · Improvement Leasehold Improvements - Flamingo Suite #130	$36,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 1 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $36,000. 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.

200 225 11 Ave SEheight n/a · built 2011 · Office · Beltline · 37 m
1117 Macleod Trail SE7.3 m · built 1958 · Office · Beltline · 40 m
238 11 Ave SE13 m · built 1957 · Office · Beltline · 62 m
1100 1 St SE98.9 m · built 2009 · Office · Beltline · 70 m
Imperial Tobacco Warehouse214 11 Ave SE22.1 m · built 1907 · Office Condo · Beltline · 92 m
Louise Block1018 Macleod Trail SE10.1 m · built 1910 · Office · Beltline · 93 m

Calgary Labour Temple questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Calgary Labour Temple?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 10.2 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 3 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Calgary Labour Temple built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1952 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1912.

Which CTrain station is closest to Calgary Labour Temple?

Victoria Park/Stampede Station, 379 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Calgary Labour Temple?

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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