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Lougheed Building

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1911 · 604 1 St SW

Lougheed Building (604 1 St SW) is a 28.3 m mid-rise office building in Downtown Commercial Core, Calgary, recorded on the City assessment roll as built in 1911. Its main structure is the 163rd tallest office roof of the 775 ranked in this record, and 92nd of 119 in Downtown Commercial Core. The City assesses the parcel at $3.2M on the 2026 roll, 499th of 822 sites in the record by assessed value. The nearest CTrain platform is 1st Street SW, 93 m away in a straight line. 2,696 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of the parcel on a weekday. Since 2012 the City has recorded 7 building permits and 2 development permits on the parcel, the largest a $7.8M office permit for alteration, applied for in 2019. It appears on the City’s Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources as Lougheed Building.

LiDAR roof height28.3 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)7

Footprint1,612 m²

Parcel1,543 m²

Year built (roll)1911

Assessed 2026$3.2M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain93 m

Civic address: 604 1 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: #163 of 785 citywide · #92 of 111 in Downtown Commercial Core
Footprint to parcel: 105% Above 100% because the LiDAR roof outlines attributed to this parcel cover more ground than its titled pieces, which happens where a roof oversails the lot line or a structure spans neighbouring parcels.
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068075100
Coordinates: 51.047273, -114.064883

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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 →

28.3 m · 1,612 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: 1st Street SW, 93 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 209 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

The nearest Plus 15 segment is 37.7 m from the parcel boundary; the parcel itself is not touched by the network geometry.

Cycling

The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m of the parcel is a protected lane (Cycle Track), 390 m away.

Winter access

The parcel fronts a Priority 1 snow and ice clearing route, 10 m from its edge. Priority 1 routes are cleared first after a snowfall.

Accessible crossing

The nearest accessible pedestrian signal is at 6 Avenue and 1 Street, 44 m from 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.

2,696 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of this parcel on a representative weekday, 376 of them between 07:00 and 09:00, across 32 routes and 35 stops. The closest stop is WB 6 AV SW @ 1 ST SW, 37 m away.

Service class	Trips on the service day
REGULAR	1,454
LRT	672
MAX	481
BRT	62
EXPRESS	27

Routes: 1 Bowness/Forest Lawn · 2 Mount Pleasant/Killarney 17 Av SW · 3 Sandstone/Elbow Dr SW · 4 Huntington · 5 North Haven · 6 Killarney/26 Av SW · 7 Marda Loop · 10 City Hall/Southcentre · 13 Altadore · 15 Deerfoot Meadows · 17 Renfrew/Ramsay · 22 Richmond Rd SW · 24 Ogden · 62 Hidden Valley · 64 MacEwan · 66 Lakeview · 90 Bridgeland/University of Calgary · 101 Inglewood · 109 Harvest Hills · 116 Coventry Hills · 117 McKenzie Towne Express · 131 East Bow Express · 142 Panorama · 151 New Brighton Express · 201 Red Line - Somerset - Bridlewood/Tuscany CTrain · 202 Blue Line - Saddletowne/69 Street CTrain · 302 BRT Southeast/City Centre · 500 Airport Express · 503 Symons Valley Express · MG MAX Green North Pointe/ City Centre · MP MAX Purple City Centre/East Hills · MY MAX Yellow Woodpark/City Centre.

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.

Paid on-street parking within 200 m

208 metered stalls across 27 City parking zones touching this walking radius, at $1.00 to $4.75 per hour depending on zone and time of day. Maximum stay 30 to 120 minutes. Tariff zones 4a, 4c.

Enforced 0710-1750 MON-FRI, 0910-1750 SAT; 0710-1750 MON-FRI,0910-1750 SAT; 0710-1750 MON-SAT; 0840-1520 MON-FRI, 0910-1750 SAT.

Closest zone

6 Av SW, Fr Centre St S To 1 St SW — 3 m from the parcel, 19 parallel stalls, tariff zone 4a, 120-minute maximum.

When	Rate
Mon-Fri 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM	$3.75 per Hour
Mon-Fri 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM	$4.50 per Hour
Mon-Fri 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM	$3.75 per Hour
No Parking at this time	See Street Signs
Saturday: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM	$1.00 per Hour
Sunday/Holidays:	Free parking
Free parking to 7 AM Mon-Fri	See Signs /Parking Restrictions

The City of Calgary On-Street Parking Zones with Rates, retrieved 2026-09-24. Counts cover Active paid parking zones only: loading bays, taxi stands, accessible stalls and permit-only zones are excluded, and off-street parkades are not in this dataset. Tariffs and enforcement hours change; confirm on the sign.

Heritage inventory

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

Lougheed Building

Construction year: 1911
Architect: McIlroy, D.S.
Style: Commercial
Typology: Shop, Office and Apartment
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Original use: Mixed Use
Planning theme: Urban Development
Designation: Municipal Historic Resource, Provincial Historic Resource
Municipal: 2004-07-26
Provincial: 2005-05-11
Inventory class: CWHR

Senator James Lougheed, a prominent Calgary lawyer, businessman and politician, purchased thirty lots in downtown Calgary from the C.P.R. in 1884, and saw his land become the central core area of the city. He remained active in development, and in 1911 he built this six-storey brick structure at the corner of 1 Street and 6 Avenue SW.

The architect was D.S. McIlroy, also the designer of the First Baptist Church. A large portion of the building was occupied by the Grand Theatre Opera House (for a time known as the Sherman Grant Theatre). The Grand Theatre was used for worship by both Central United Church and Knox United Church while they were rebuilding. Besides the theatre, there were originally stores on the ground floor, commercial sample rooms on the next two storeys, and two and three-room living suites on the top floors.

The theatre remains today, although it has been divided into

Character-defining elements: Key elements of the Lougheed Block such as: - L-shaped form and massing - brick and sandstone cladding - prominent corner location - glazed light wells between the Lougheed Block and former Sherman Grand Theatre Key elements of the exterior such as: - Chicago Style with the elevation divided into three distinct zones - ground level large display windows; recessed store entrances; pilaster patterns defining ground floor storefront bays - theatre entrance on the west elevation and theatre exit on the north elevation - intermediate floors with grid-like fenestration pattern consisting of paired w

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 404.

Named building record

Public-domain building facts from Wikidata attached by location. Where a stated height differs from the LiDAR roof, the difference usually reflects spires, screens or datum.

Name: Lougheed Building
Description: commercial building in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Identifier: Wikidata Q38528416 (CC0)

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 068075100 · 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	$3.3M	—
2006	$6.3M	93.8%
2007	$6.3M	0.0%
2008	$20.1M	219.4%
2009	$22.9M	13.9%
2010	$23.5M	2.7%
2011	$7.7M	-67.3%
2012	$8.7M	13.3%
2013	$32.2M	269.9%
2014	$38.0M	18.2%
2015	$39.0M	2.4%
2016	$22.6M	-41.9%
2017	$14.9M	-34.0%
2018	$11.5M	-23.1%
2019	$6.2M	-45.8%
2020	$5.0M	-20.2%
2021	$4.5M	-9.3%
2022	$3.7M	-17.5%
2023	$3.1M	-17.2%
2024	$3.2M	3.9%
2025	$3.2M	0.9%
2026	$3.2M	-1.5%

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
2019-12-05	DP2019-6219	Renovations - Non-Residential EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS: MULTI-USE COMMERCIAL (BUILDING REFURBISHMENT), ADDITION: OFFICE (ROOFTOP BALCONY)	Released Approval
2014-07-10	DP2014-3238	Signs - Permitted Use with Relaxation NEW: SIGN - CLASS D (PROJECTING SIGNS - 4)	Refused Refusal

Recent building permits 7 since 2012 · 3 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2021-10-06	BP2021-17421	3402 - Office · Alteration Interior alterations (The Lougheed Bldg.)	$745,000	Expired
2019-11-29	BP2019-16295	3402 - Office · Alteration The Lougheed Building Interior Alteration	$7.8M	Completed
2019-11-25	BP2019-15929	4002 - Vacant · Alteration Loughheed Building - Interior Demolition	$1.0M	Completed
2018-02-16	BP2018-01669	4002 - Vacant · Alteration Interior Demolition - Lougheed Building	$451,866	Completed
2014-04-04	BP2014-04464	3106 - Retail Shop · Alteration	$1,200	Completed
2013-10-22	BP2013-15890	3613 - Restaurant - Licensed · Alteration Interior Alteration	$250,000	Completed
2012-02-29	BP2012-02070	3402 - Office · Alteration Redesign Office space	$185,000	Expired

Declared estimated project cost across all 7 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $10.4M. 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.

15 inspection results are published against 4 of the 7 building permits on this parcel, from 2012-05-11 to 2020-04-29. 1 inspection used a life-safety checklist.

What was inspected

Result of each visit

Outcome	Inspections
Acceptable Add Inspection	9
Acceptable	4
Acceptable with Conditions	2

Stage

Inspection type	Count
Progress	12
Final	3

The 14 most recent inspection results

Date	Permit	Stage	Checklist	Outcome	Inspector note
2020-04-29	BP2019-15929	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable Add Inspection	Call 311 to book your inspection.
2018-05-25	BP2018-01669	Final	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable with Conditions	Demolition is complete. Received fire stopping product listings. Contractor shall complete noted deficiency and then may continue. No other inspection required. File closed.
2018-05-25	BP2018-01669	Final	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable with Conditions	Provide exit signs over or adjacent to every exit door within the scope of work. All of the existing red exit signs within the area of work shall be replaced with the new green running man exit signs.
2018-04-20	BP2018-01669	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable Add Inspection	Majority of the demo work is complete. Contractor shall insure penetrations of floors, walls, stairwells are properly sealed.
2018-04-20	BP2018-01669	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable Add Inspection	Call for final inspection next.
2018-03-26	BP2018-01669	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable Add Inspection	Call 311 to book your inspection.
2014-08-12	BP2014-04464	Final	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable	Final inspection is complete. Close file.
2014-05-22	BP2014-04464	Progress	DOCUMENTS Commercial	Acceptable Add Inspection	Fire Alarm Verification For final.
2014-05-22	BP2014-04464	Progress	DOCUMENTS Commercial	Acceptable Add Inspection	Sprinkler Verification For final.
2014-05-22	BP2014-04464	Progress	FIRESTOPPING	Acceptable Add Inspection	Fire stopping to be an approved tested method. Contractor to fire stop all penetrations in the janitor's room and provide ULC listing of the product used for final.
2014-05-22	BP2014-04464	Progress	DIRECTIVES	Acceptable Add Inspection	Progress inspection is complete. Call for fire stopping inspecting when the back bathroom has been converted to a storage room as per plans to inspect the abandoned toilet drain.
2014-05-22	BP2014-04464	Progress	DOCUMENTS Commercial	Acceptable Add Inspection	Occupancy Application This document is required for the change of occupancy of this space. All required signatures must be in place before building final can occur.
2012-05-11	BP2012-02070	Progress	—	Acceptable	Provide fire alarm verification at final.
2012-05-11	BP2012-02070	Progress	—	Acceptable	Interior alterations are in progress as per submitted plans. No infractions noted.

An inspection result is a record of one visit, not a verdict on the building. In the City's process a Not Acceptable result is an ordinary step: the inspector lists what must change and the work is re-inspected, which is why the most common outcome across the record is Acceptable Add Inspection. Most results relate to a single tenant improvement rather than the whole building. Inspector notes are The City of Calgary's own text at retrieval, with contact details removed; applicant and contractor names are never read.

The City of Calgary Building Inspections Results, joined to building permits by permit number, retrieved 2026-09-24.

Occupiers and licensed businesses

The public record of who operates on the parcel, labelled by source.

Businesses licensed by the City on this parcel 1 as of 2026-09-24

Licensed business	Address	Licence type	Status	Licensed since
Scg Calgary	604 1 St SW	Contractor (No Provincial Licence Required)	Renewal pending	2025

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.

622 1 St SW84.9 m · built 1958 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 54 m
Utilities Building119 6 Ave SW25.5 m · built 1929 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 64 m
Suncor Energy Centre117 5 Ave SW217.1 m · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 92 m
Brookfield Place225 6 Ave SW243.2 m · built 2013 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 93 m
Telus Sky685 Centre St SW225.6 m · built 2014 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 108 m
110R 6 Ave SWheight n/a · built 1981 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 113 m

Where this building sits in the record

Every collection this building belongs to, from the same public data shown above.

Downtown Commercial Core office buildings Southwest Calgary All Office sites Built in the 1910s Land use CR20-C20/R20 Heritage office buildings Named office buildings Paid street parking Office buildings near CTrain Transit service ranking Assessment cycle 2015–2026 Construction record

Lougheed Building questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Lougheed Building?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 28.3 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 7 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Lougheed Building built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1911 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1911.

What is the assessed value of Lougheed Building?

The City of Calgary assesses this parcel at $3.2M in total on the 2026 roll, 499th 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 Lougheed Building zoned?

The parcel is designated CR20-C20/R20, Commercial - Residential Core, 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 Lougheed Building?

1st Street SW Station, 93 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Who is in Lougheed Building?

The City of Calgary business licence register lists 1 licensed business at this address or inside the parcel as of 2026-09-24, shown in the occupiers section. Most office occupiers such as professional firms do not need a municipal licence, so the register is not a tenant roster.

Has Lougheed Building been inspected?

The City publishes 15 inspection results against 4 permits here, between 2012-05-11 and 2020-04-29. 1 used a life-safety checklist such as fire separations, firestopping or emergency lighting. Each result records one visit and most relate to a single tenant improvement, so this is not a verdict on the building.

How good is transit at Lougheed Building?

2,696 scheduled transit trips call within 300 m of the parcel on a representative weekday, 376 of them in the morning peak, across 32 routes. The closest stop is WB 6 AV SW @ 1 ST SW, 37 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 Lougheed Building?

The best-rated cycling facility within 400 m is a protected lane, 390 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 Lougheed Building?

The City of Calgary's tariff record shows 208 paid on-street stalls in 27 zones within 200 m of the parcel, at $1.00 to $4.75 per hour. The closest is 6 Av SW, Fr Centre St S To 1 St SW, 3 m away. Loading bays, taxi stands, accessible stalls and off-street parkades are not counted, and rates change, so confirm on the sign.

Is office space available at Lougheed 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), 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.

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