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Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery Warehouse

Office · mid-rise office building · 601 10 Ave SW

LiDAR roof height15.6 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)4

Footprint1,496 m²

Parcel2,100 m²

Year built (roll)—

Assessed 2026$4.7M

Structures on parcel2

Nearest CTrain380 m

Civic address: 601 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Community: Beltline (BLN)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: CC-X — Centre City Mixed Use District (Commercial)
Height rank: #253 of 580 citywide · #76 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 71% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 067093906
Coordinates: 51.043381, -114.074575

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 →

15.6 m · 537 m² · 11.6 m · 959 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: 6th Street SW, 380 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 540 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 165 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery Warehouse (Kipling Square)

Construction year: 1914
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Unknown
Style: Edwardian Commercial
Typology: Warehouse
Development era: 1914 to 1918 (WWI)
Designation: Inventory listing only

This site is significant because:

Its refined façade, simply detailed with window keystones and voussoirs, stylized parapets, and ornamental doorway surround exemplifies Edwardian Commercial-style design imbued with neo-classical type influences adapted to a small-scale warehouse; it features distinctive textured-brick on the main facades. [Style: community significance]

Its contribution to Calgary's historic wholesale/warehouse district, recalls Calgary's historic status as the most important wholesale and distribution centre between Winnipeg and Vancouver. [Activity value: city-wide significance]

It contributed to the development of the northern Beltline area as Calgary's main wholesale/warehouse district, and continues to contribute to the warehouse district's historic identity and character. [Symbolic value: community significance]

Character-defining elements: Character-defining elements of the property include, but are not limited to, the following: - Two-part building consisting of a two story section and a three-storey section; flat roof; - Heavy-timber construction with red-brick (mould-formed) exterior walls laid with deeply recessed mortar joints; sandstone and concrete detailing comprising keystones, voussoirs, stringcourses, window sills, parapet insets and ornamental main entry surround; - Fenestration with rectangular single openings; - Central main entry opening, and secondary opening (original building section) - Large, rear, loading doo

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 230.

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 067093906 · Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$3.5M	—
2006	$3.5M	0.3%
2007	$5.1M	45.7%
2008	$7.7M	49.5%
2009	$12.0M	56.3%
2010	$7.8M	-35.3%
2011	$5.0M	-35.1%
2012	$5.7M	12.3%
2013	$10.9M	91.9%
2014	$10.5M	-3.0%
2015	$13.1M	24.5%
2016	$11.1M	-15.1%
2017	$11.2M	0.6%
2018	$8.1M	-27.9%
2019	$7.9M	-2.7%
2020	$7.6M	-3.4%
2021	$7.4M	-2.9%
2022	$6.5M	-12.3%
2023	$5.4M	-15.8%
2024	$5.3M	-1.8%
2025	$5.4M	1.9%
2026	$4.7M	-12.9%

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 1 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2019-01-15	DP2019-0212	Signs - Permitted Use NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGNS - 2)	Released Approval

Recent building permits 10 since 2012 · 9 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2026-07-13	BP2026-12966	3402 - Office · Improvement Group D Office 3.2.2.62.	$41,000	Issued Permit
2026-03-11	BP2026-03746	3402 - Office · Unspecified Group D Office	$800	Completed
2025-07-10	BP2025-13389	3703 - Beauty Shop · Improvement Flooring replacement.	$11,000	Completed
2025-05-06	BP2025-08318	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alteration	$15,000	Completed
2024-04-29	BP2024-08050	3402 - Office · Unspecified Fire Alarm	$9,500	Completed
2017-03-29	BP2017-02986	3402 - Office · Improvement Group D Office	$65,280	Completed
2014-05-14	BP2014-06940	3402 - Office · Improvement interior alteration	$45,000	Completed
2013-05-17	BP2013-06896	3402 - Office · Improvement interior alteration and use	$25,120	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 10 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $359,500. 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.

602 11 Ave SW19.8 m · built 1978 · Office · Beltline · 46 m
550 11 Ave SW48.8 m · built 1982 · Office · Beltline · 77 m
628 11 Ave SW8.6 m · built 1965 · Office · Beltline · 85 m
Roberts Block605 11 Ave SW16 m · built 1912 · Office · Beltline · 105 m
200 638 11 Ave SW16.8 m · built 2003 · Office Condo · 6 accounts · Beltline · 112 m
617 11 Ave SW8.6 m · built 1967 · Office · Beltline · 112 m

Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery Warehouse questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery Warehouse?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 15.6 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 4 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery Warehouse built?

The City’s roll does not publish a usable year of construction for this account.

Which CTrain station is closest to Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery Warehouse?

6th Street SW Station, 380 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Simington Co. Wholesale Grocery 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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