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Calgary Paint & Glass Co. Warehouse

Office · mid-rise office building · built 1920 · 809 10 Ave SW

LiDAR roof height26.5 m

Storey-equivalent (derived)7

Footprint569 m²

Parcel1,800 m²

Year built (roll)1920

Assessed 2026$3.7M

Structures on parcel1

Nearest CTrain381 m

Civic address: 809 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: #154 of 580 citywide · #32 of 119 in Beltline
Site coverage: 32% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 067091504
Coordinates: 51.043518, -114.079439

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 →

26.5 m · 569 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: 8th Street SW, 381 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station Beltline is 880 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

Nearest Plus 15 segment: 179 m. Not on the network.

Heritage inventory

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

Calgary Paint & Glass Co. Warehouse

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

This site is significant because:

- it is valued as a handsome, Edwardian Commercial-style warehouse, and is among the tallest of Calgary's historic warehouses. It is clad in high-quality red, pressed brick and displays Neo-classical style influenced detailing. [Style value: 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: - six-storey flat roof form; three bays wide and seven bays deep; raised basement and ground floor; - reinforced concrete-frame construction with red, pressed-brick exterior walls comprising rusticated and ornamented main façade piers; concrete detailing (sills); board-formed concrete foundation; - classical-profile roofline and secondary metal cornices; - fenestration, with facade comprising two large display windows on first storey and pairs of rectangular single windows on upper stories; single, recta

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 229.

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 067091504 · Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$4.3M	—
2006	$4.8M	11.5%
2007	$6.2M	28.6%
2008	$11.7M	88.6%
2009	$13.0M	10.8%
2010	$8.4M	-35.4%
2011	$5.0M	-40.8%
2012	$5.7M	13.9%
2013	$9.5M	67.6%
2014	$8.8M	-7.0%
2015	$10.0M	13.6%
2016	$9.7M	-3.4%
2017	$9.8M	1.9%
2018	$7.0M	-29.4%
2019	$6.8M	-2.7%
2020	$6.5M	-3.3%
2021	$6.3M	-3.1%
2022	$5.6M	-12.3%
2023	$4.7M	-15.8%
2024	$4.6M	-1.7%
2025	$4.7M	1.7%
2026	$3.7M	-20.5%

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 1 since 2012

Applied	Permit	Category · description	Status
2019-09-16	DP2019-4767	Signs - Permitted Use with Relaxation NEW: SIGN - CLASS B (FASCIA SIGNS - 3)	Cancelled

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

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2026-02-12	BP2026-02222	3402 - Office · Improvement INTERIOR PARTITONS	$1.0M	Issued Permit
2023-08-22	BP2023-14117	3402 - Office · Improvement interior alteration, office	$403,020	Issued Permit
2022-05-27	BP2022-08969	3402 - Office · Unspecified Fire Alarm Alterations	$72,000	Completed
2020-11-10	BP2020-16447	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alterations	$178,961	Completed
2017-10-24	BP2017-14251	3402 - Office · Improvement Evans Hunt Group - 5th Floor Renovation	$60,000	Completed
2015-10-08	BP2015-13215	3402 - Office · Improvement Alterations 3rd floor - Group D (Evans Hunt Group)	$50,000	Completed
2012-07-19	BP2012-09893	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alteration and Use Confirmation	$106,000	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 7 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $1.9M. 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.

752 10 Ave SW10.8 m · built 1995 · Office · Beltline · 71 m
Sherwin-Williams Co. Warehouse738 11 Ave SW19.9 m · built 1914 · Office · Beltline · 74 m
707 10 Ave SW12.8 m · built 1977 · Office · 2 accounts · Beltline · 142 m
Ford Motor Company of Canada Warehouse902 11 Ave SW15.7 m · built 1922 · Office · Beltline · 201 m
909 11 Ave SW67.9 m · built 1982 · Office · Beltline · 207 m
701 11 Ave SW11.6 m · built 1999 · Office · Beltline · 207 m

Calgary Paint & Glass Co. Warehouse questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Calgary Paint & Glass Co. Warehouse?

The main structure on the parcel has a LiDAR roof height of 26.5 m in The City of Calgary’s 3D building data, a storey-equivalent of about 7 at 3.9 m per storey.

When was Calgary Paint & Glass Co. Warehouse built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1920 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1913.

Which CTrain station is closest to Calgary Paint & Glass Co. Warehouse?

8th Street SW Station, 381 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Calgary Paint & Glass Co. 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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