2536 3 Ave SE
Office use recorded by City permits (roll code X034) · low-rise office building · built 1980 · 2536 3 Ave SE
2536 3 Ave SE is a 5.7 m low-rise office building in Meridian, Calgary, recorded on the City assessment roll as built in 1980. Its main structure is the 722nd tallest office roof of the 775 ranked in this record, and 7th of 7 in Meridian. The City assesses the parcel at $2.2M on the 2026 roll, 609th of 822 sites in the record by assessed value. The nearest CTrain platform is Franklin, 469 m away in a straight line. 563 scheduled transit trips call within 450 m of the parcel on a weekday. Since 2012 the City has recorded 1 building permit and 2 development permits on the parcel, the largest a $12,000 office permit for fire/ security alarm, applied for in 2021.
- Civic address
- 2536 3 Ave SE, Calgary, AB
- Community
- Meridian (MER)
- City sub-property use
- X034 Roll code X034 (no published description) · all Office use recorded by City permits (roll code X034) sites
- Land use district
- I-B — Industrial - Business (Industrial)
- Height rank
- #722 of 785 citywide · #7 of 7 in Meridian
- Footprint to parcel
- 32% of the parcel under LiDAR footprints
- Parcel pieces
- 1 titled piece · roll 071133409
- Coordinates
- 51.047917, -114.000591
The City assesses this parcel under roll code X034, for which it publishes no description, so the office-code definition alone would omit it. It is included because The City’s own building permits record office use on the parcel: 5 permits in the City’s Office classes between 2000 and 2021. The building may hold other uses as well. Every building included this way.
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 →
How it compares
Roof height against the Meridian median and tallest, and against the city.
Access
Public-geometry tests only; confirm routes, entrances and hours with the building.
CTrain
Nearest station: Franklin, 469 m straight-line (route 202).
Plus 15
Outside the Plus 15 network area.
Cycling
The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m of the parcel is a community street (On-Street Bikeway), 306 m away. The nearest protected lane is 519 m away.
Winter access
The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route, 22 m from its edge. Priority 1 routes are cleared first after a snowfall.
Accessible crossing
No accessible pedestrian signal lies within 400 m of the parcel.
Straight-line tests against The City of Calgary Calgary Bikeways, Snow and Ice Clearing Priority Routes and Traffic Signals, retrieved 2026-09-24. Bikeways are ranked by the City's comfort level, where 1 is a protected lane and 4 a major street. Snow priority is a clearing order, not a clearing time. An accessible pedestrian signal gives audible and tactile crossing cues; a signal recorded as unknown is not counted as having none.
Transit service
Scheduled Calgary Transit service at the door, not only the distance to a platform.
563 scheduled transit trips call within 450 m of this parcel on a representative weekday, 79 of them between 07:00 and 09:00, across 5 routes and 4 stops. The closest stop is Barlow LRT Station (EB Century RI @ 19 ST NE), 406 m away. Nothing lies within 300 m, so this is measured at 450 m.
| Service class | Trips on the service day |
|---|---|
| LRT | 330 |
| REGULAR | 233 |
Routes: 27 Willowglen · 33 Vista Heights/Rundle · 127 Maryvale/Franklin Industrial · 155 West Dover/Forest Lawn · 202 Blue Line - Saddletowne/69 Street CTrain.
Calgary Transit Scheduling Data (GTFS), service day 2026-09-28 inside the 2026-09-15 to 2026-12-20 service period. A trip is counted once however many stops it calls at inside the radius. Schedules change each service period; this is the schedule, not observed service.
Parking
What the City’s own tariff record says about kerbside parking beside this parcel.
No Active paid on-street parking zone lies within 200 m of this parcel in the City’s tariff dataset. That is not a statement that parking is unavailable: free, permit-only and off-street parking are not recorded in this source.
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 071133409 · X034
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 | $2.0M | — |
| 2006 | $2.6M | 27.7% |
| 2007 | $4.2M | 62.0% |
| 2008 | $4.3M | 2.6% |
| 2009 | $5.5M | 28.7% |
| 2010 | $3.7M | -33.0% |
| 2011 | $2.9M | -21.6% |
| 2012 | $3.3M | 12.8% |
| 2013 | $3.4M | 4.0% |
| 2014 | $3.7M | 8.2% |
| 2015 | $3.7M | 0.5% |
| 2016 | $4.2M | 14.3% |
| 2017 | $5.1M | 21.3% |
| 2018 | $2.4M | -53.4% |
| 2019 | $2.0M | -15.9% |
| 2020 | $2.4M | 16.9% |
| 2021 | $2.0M | -15.3% |
| 2022 | $2.1M | 5.0% |
| 2023 | $1.9M | -10.5% |
| 2024 | $1.9M | 0.0% |
| 2025 | $2.0M | 8.0% |
| 2026 | $2.2M | 6.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-24 | DP2022-00435 | Change of Use - With Change to Site Plan CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: SPECIALIZED INDUSTRIAL (PROPOSED GENERATOR) | Released Approval |
| 2020-12-29 | DP2020-8371 | Change of Use - Permitted Use CHANGE OF USE: SPECIALIZED INDUSTRIAL | Released Approval |
Recent building permits 1 since 2012 · 1 in the City’s office class
| Applied | Permit | Class · work | Est. cost | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-26 | BP2021-20277 | 3402 - Office · Fire/ Security Alarm Fire alarm replacement. | $12,000 | Expired |
Declared estimated project cost across all 1 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $12,000. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval; applicant and contractor names are not reproduced.
Inspections
What City inspectors recorded against the permits on this parcel.
The City has no inspection result on file for a building permit on this parcel. The 1 building permit located here carry no published inspection record, which usually means the work was permitted but no inspection result has been published against it.
Occupiers and licensed businesses
The public record of who operates on the parcel, labelled by source.
Businesses licensed by the City on this parcel 0 as of 2026-09-24
No City of Calgary business licence is recorded at this address or inside this parcel.
Not a tenant roster. The City licenses specific business types (retail, food service, personal services, contractors, wholesalers, schools and similar). Most office occupiers such as professional firms need no municipal licence and do not appear here. Matched by civic address and by licence location inside the parcel; home-based licences are excluded.
No individuals are named. The City issues many personal-service licences to people trading under their own name. Suite numbers are never published, and where a licence reads as an individual rather than an organisation the name is withheld and only the licence category is shown. Names of sources this site does not use are omitted.
Nearby office buildings
The six nearest office building sites in the record, by straight-line distance between parcel centroids.
Where this building sits in the record
Every collection this building belongs to, from the same public data shown above.
2536 3 Ave SE questions
Answers drawn from the record.
How tall is 2536 3 Ave SE?
The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 5.7 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 1 at 3.9 m per storey.
When was 2536 3 Ave SE built?
The City’s assessment roll records 1980 as the year of construction.
What is the assessed value of 2536 3 Ave SE?
The City of Calgary assesses this parcel at $2.2M in total on the 2026 roll, 609th of 822 sites in this record. Assessed value is the City’s figure for property tax, not a sale price or an asking price.
What is 2536 3 Ave SE zoned?
The parcel is designated I-B, Industrial - Business, under the City of Calgary Land Use Bylaw. Confirm the designation and any amendments with the City before relying on it.
Which CTrain station is closest to 2536 3 Ave SE?
Franklin Station, 469 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.
Who is in 2536 3 Ave SE?
No City of Calgary business licence is recorded at this address or inside the parcel. Most office occupiers such as professional firms do not need a municipal licence, so the register is not a tenant roster.
Has 2536 3 Ave SE been inspected?
The City publishes no inspection result against a building permit on this parcel.
How good is transit at 2536 3 Ave SE?
563 scheduled transit trips call within 450 m of the parcel on a representative weekday, 79 of them in the morning peak, across 5 routes. The closest stop is Barlow LRT Station (EB Century RI @ 19 ST NE), 406 m away. That is the published schedule for one service period, not observed service, and it counts each trip once however many stops it makes nearby.
Can staff cycle or get there in winter at 2536 3 Ave SE?
The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m is a community street, 306 m away. The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route. These are straight-line tests against City layers.
Where can visitors park at 2536 3 Ave SE?
No Active paid on-street parking zone lies within 200 m of this parcel in the City's tariff dataset. Free, permit-only and off-street parking are not recorded in that source, so this is not a statement that parking is unavailable.
Is office space available at 2536 3 Ave SE?
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.
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), Calgary Business Licenses, On-Street Parking Zones with Rates, Building Inspections Results, Residential Parking Zones, Snow and Ice Clearing Priority Routes, Traffic Signals, Calgary Bikeways — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-24. 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.