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Alberta Wheat Pool Building

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1962 · 505 2 St SW

LiDAR roof height41.3 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)11

Footprint1,386 m²

Parcel1,882 m²

Year built (roll)1962

Assessed 2026$7.6M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain196 m

Civic address: 505 2 St SW, Calgary, AB
Community: Downtown Commercial Core (DNC)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: CR20-C20/R20 — Commercial - Residential Core (Commercial - Core)
Height rank: #117 of 580 citywide · #81 of 111 in Downtown Commercial Core
Site coverage: 74% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068053909
Coordinates: 51.048264, -114.068251

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 →

41.3 m · 1,386 m²

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

How it compares

Roof height against the Downtown Commercial Core 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, 196 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 131 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

The nearest Plus 15 segment is 23.5 m from the parcel boundary; the parcel itself is not touched by the network geometry.

Heritage inventory

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

Alberta Wheat Pool Building

Construction year: 1958
Architect: Clayton Bond and Mogridge
Builder: Foundation Company of Canada
Style: International
Typology: Office
Development era: 1957 to 1982 (Modern)
Designation: Inventory listing only

HERITAGE CHARACTER STATEMENT

The building is designed in the International style with interlocking 'cube'-like vertical towers set on a strongly expressed horizontal podium. The structure is clad in a curtain wall system of metal panels and glazing creating a rhythmic rectangular grid. The interior lobby features two opposing banks of elevators, an open staircase, mail chute, and, terrazzo flooring. The building housed the headquarters for the Alberta Wheat Pool; a farmers' cooperative grain organization and a significant symbol of the provincial agricultural industry.

SUMMARY HISTORY

The former Alberta Wheat Pool Building, known as Epcor Place since 2001, is an eight-storey office block in Calgary's downtown commercial core. It was built in 1958-1959 as the first purpose-built headquarters of the Alberta Wheat Pool (AWP), a significant farmers' cooperative organization. The AWP remain

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 223.

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 068053909 · 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	$9.9M	—
2006	$15.6M	56.8%
2007	$23.7M	52.0%
2008	$34.1M	43.6%
2009	$36.6M	7.4%
2010	$25.8M	-29.5%
2011	$12.6M	-51.3%
2012	$12.7M	1.4%
2013	$25.9M	103.5%
2014	$30.4M	17.1%
2015	$31.1M	2.3%
2016	$28.4M	-8.8%
2017	$23.4M	-17.6%
2018	$17.7M	-24.2%
2019	$11.9M	-32.8%
2020	$13.0M	9.3%
2021	$10.6M	-18.5%
2022	$8.7M	-17.9%
2024	$7.4M	-14.9%
2025	$7.5M	0.9%
2026	$7.6M	1.7%

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 0 since 2012

None located on this parcel since 2012.

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

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2026-08-26	BP2026-16340	3402 - Office · Improvement	$400,000	Pending Plans Review Assignment
2026-07-14	BP2026-13074	3402 - Office · Improvement Group D Office 3.2.2.56.	$500,000	Issued Permit
2026-07-06	BP2026-12482	3402 - Office · Improvement Exterior Alterations	$300,000	Issued Permit
2026-03-04	BP2026-03340	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alterations	$60,000	Issued Permit
2025-06-27	BP2025-12512	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior alterations - PROSPECT PLACE LEVEL 4 TENANT IMPROVEMENT WORK	$50,000	Issued Permit

Declared estimated project cost across all 5 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $1.3M. 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.

316 5 Ave SW114.9 m · built 1978 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 70 m
Bow Valley Square250 6 Ave SW147.1 m · built 1972 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 87 m
330 5 Ave SW112.7 m · built 1968 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 89 m
407 2 St SW74.8 m · built 1974 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 104 m
Intact Place311 6 Ave SW75.8 m · built 1978 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 105 m
329 5 Ave SW66.2 m · built 1978 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 108 m

Alberta Wheat Pool Building questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Alberta Wheat Pool Building?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 41.3 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 11 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Alberta Wheat Pool Building built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1962 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1958.

Which CTrain station is closest to Alberta Wheat Pool Building?

3rd Street SW Station, 196 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Alberta Wheat Pool Building?

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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