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St. Louis Hotel

Office · low-rise office building · built 1913 · 430 8 Ave SE

LiDAR roof height13 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)3

Footprint630 m²

Parcel605 m²

Year built (roll)1913

Assessed 2026$1.5M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain238 m

Civic address: 430 8 Ave SE, Calgary, AB
Community: Downtown East Village (DNE)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: DC — Direct Control (Direct Control)
Height rank: #285 of 580 citywide · #2 of 2 in Downtown East Village
Site coverage: 104% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 202058244
Coordinates: 51.045556, -114.05388

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 →

13 m · 630 m²

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

How it compares

Roof height against the Downtown East Village median and tallest, and against the city.

Access

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

CTrain

Nearest station: City Hall, 238 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Event Centre / Grand Central Station is 355 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 78 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

St. Louis Hotel

Construction year: 1913
Architect: John B. Richards
Builder: Unknown
Style: Commercial
Typology: Hotel
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

Character-defining elements: The exterior character-defining elements of the St. Louis Hotel include such features as its: -three-storey, rectangular plan with short façade and flat roof; -brick and tile construction; -façade brickwork laid in stretcher bond with raked joints, and articulated to create pilasters and panels, and forming a straight parapet; -smoothly-finished sandstone detailing (primary façade) that comprises window sills, lintels and pilaster capitals and bases; -ornamental, galvanized-metal roofline cornice with Neoclassical-style detailing and the lettering 'ST. LOUIS HOTEL' contained within the frieze;

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 252.

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 202058244 · 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
2015	$1.2M	—
2016	$1.1M	-5.9%
2017	$3.6M	227.9%
2018	$3.5M	-4.9%
2019	$2.1M	-39.9%
2020	$1.7M	-17.8%
2021	$1.3M	-23.4%
2022	$1.2M	-9.9%
2023	$1.3M	11.0%
2024	$1.2M	-5.3%
2025	$1.5M	21.0%
2026	$1.5M	0.0%

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
2015-01-16	DP2015-0179	Renovations - Non-Residential CHANGE OF USE: RESTAURANT: LICENSED - MEDIUM, OFFICE (WITH EXTERIOR CHANGES)	Released Approval

Recent building permits 8 since 2012 · 5 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2026-01-21	BP2026-00968	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior renovation	$200,000	Completed
2025-06-05	BP2025-10741	3402 - Office · Improvement CMLC Office Renovation - Levels 2 & 3	$75,000	Completed
2022-10-26	BP2022-18015	7103 - Special Function - Class 1 · Unspecified Temporary Tents & Structures	$7,000	Completed
2022-04-29	BP2022-07015	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior alteration.	$191,500	Completed
2017-01-27	BP2017-00775	3402 - Office · Improvement INTERIOR OFFICE ALTERATIONS	$30,000	Completed
2016-02-17	BP2016-01361	3402 - Office · Improvement Group A2 and D	$400,000	Completed
2015-03-25	BP2015-03134	4002 - Vacant · Improvement Base building	$6.3M	Completed
2014-04-28	BP2014-05751	3607 - Hotel/Motel · Improvement Base Building Improvements	$10,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 8 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $7.2M. 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.

407 9 Ave SEheight n/a · built 2018 · Office · Downtown East Village · 193 m
Original Centre Street Bridge Lions800 Macleod Trail SE57.2 m · built 1982 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 219 m
W.R. Castell Central Library616 Macleod Trail SE30.5 m · built 1974 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 264 m
435 10 Ave SE4.5 m · built 1989 · Office · Beltline · 306 m
303 9 Ave SE15.5 m · built 1966 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 308 m
409 10 Ave SE15.7 m · built 1941 · Office · Beltline · 313 m

St. Louis Hotel questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is St. Louis Hotel?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 13 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 3 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was St. Louis Hotel built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1913 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1913.

Which CTrain station is closest to St. Louis Hotel?

City Hall Station, 238 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at St. Louis Hotel?

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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