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Neilson's Furniture Warehouse

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1910 · 438 11 Ave SE

LiDAR roof height27 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)7

Footprint798 m²

Parcel1,197 m²

Year built (roll)1910

Assessed 2026$5.9M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain500 m

Civic address: 438 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: #153 of 580 citywide · #31 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 67% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068118009
Coordinates: 51.042379, -114.053781

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 m · 798 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: City Hall, 500 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Event Centre / Grand Central Station is 288 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Outside the Plus 15 network area.

Heritage inventory

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

Neilson's Furniture Warehouse

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

The Neilson Furniture Co., established in 1894 by Hugh Neilson, was typical of many Calgary businesses of the time in that the retail function of the business was conducted in the commercial core (i.e. Stephen Avenue) and the supplementary function of storage was carried out from the warehouse district. The present

building was erected in 1912 to provide additional space for the Company's 8 Avenue operations. A sizeable structure, the warehouse provided 13,488 square feet of storage.

Originally erected as a three storey brick building, its facade was treated with paired windows separated by pilaster strips and capped by a corbelled parapet. A common form of warehouse design, the building was constructed to be sturdy and fire resistant. A compatible one storey addition was added to the structure in 1926 in anticipation of a new tenant, the Independent Biscuit Co. The addition retained th

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 327.

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 068118009 · 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
2005	$1.1M	—
2006	$1.1M	0.0%
2007	$1.4M	30.2%
2008	$1.6M	13.0%
2009	$2.3M	45.5%
2010	$4.2M	82.8%
2011	$2.0M	-52.3%
2012	$1.4M	-31.3%
2013	$4.4M	223.5%
2014	$7.5M	70.5%
2015	$21.2M	183.1%
2016	$19.6M	-7.7%
2017	$18.1M	-7.8%
2018	$12.9M	-28.4%
2019	$8.9M	-31.2%
2020	$8.3M	-6.4%
2021	$6.0M	-28.0%
2022	$7.1M	18.0%
2023	$7.0M	-1.6%
2024	$5.3M	-24.7%
2025	$6.1M	16.2%
2026	$5.9M	-3.3%

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
2014-04-03	DP2014-1458	Change of Use - With Change to Site Plan CHANGES TO SITE PLAN: MULTI-USE COMMERCIAL (REFURBISH BUILDING FACADE & PARKING), NEW: SIGN - CLASS D (PROJECTING SIGNS - 2), NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGNS - 2)	Released Approval
2014-03-18	DP2014-1158	Change of Use - Discretionary Use or Relaxations Required CHANGE OF USE: OFFICE	Released Approval

Recent building permits 13 since 2012 · 12 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2022-02-15	BP2022-02319	3402 - Office · Improvement	—	Cancelled
2022-02-15	BP2022-02326	3402 - Office · Improvement interior alterations.	$38,000	File Closed
2016-12-23	BP2016-15247	3402 - Office · Improvement Suite #201, Biscuit Block Office Renovation, Live Nation	$167,973	Completed
2015-09-28	BP2015-12629	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Partitioning for new tenat D occupancy	$145,000	Completed
2015-05-27	BP2015-06182	3402 - Office · Improvement	$225,000	Completed
2015-04-23	BP2015-04481	4002 - Vacant · Improvement Centre lobby and north tenant on 2nd floor	$175,000	Completed
2014-06-13	BP2014-08982	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Partitioning, 3rd floor	$200,000	Completed
2014-05-14	BP2014-06929	3402 - Office · Improvement	$130,440	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 13 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $9.8M. 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.

422 11 Ave SE11.3 m · built 1980 · Office · Beltline · 40 m
435 10 Ave SE4.5 m · built 1989 · Office · Beltline · 45 m
Victoria Sandstone School411 11 Ave SE23 m · year n/a · Office · Beltline · 82 m
Arriva Tower300 1111 Olympic Way SE123.5 m · built 2008 · Office Condo · 9 accounts · Beltline · 84 m
409 10 Ave SE15.7 m · built 1941 · Office · Beltline · 102 m
Pilkington Paint & Glass402 11 Ave SE19.2 m · built 1913 · Office · Beltline · 106 m

Neilson's Furniture Warehouse questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Neilson's Furniture Warehouse?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 27 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 7 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Neilson's Furniture Warehouse built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1910 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1912.

Which CTrain station is closest to Neilson's Furniture Warehouse?

City Hall Station, 500 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Neilson's Furniture 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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