Developer makes plea to save former Royal Alberta Museum building in Edmonton [Video]

An Edmonton property developer known for reimaging old buildings says it’s bewildered the Alberta government has moved ahead with a plan to tear down the former provincial museum.

Beljan Developments – the company responsible for transforming several local landmarks such as the Strathcona Hotel, Substation 600 on 124 Street and Station Park at Whyte Avenue and Gateway Boulevard – already had a working relationship with the province starting in 2020 on the future of the former site of the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) in the Glenora neighbourhood.

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The province announced in August the former museum building would be torn down and replaced with a green space.

Owner-director Ivan Beljan said his firm was taken aback at the news.

“It really caught all of us by surprise just because of the time we invested in putting this together,” Beljan told CTV …