Manulife Place


Manulife Place is a highrise office building and shopping centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was completed in 1983 and designed by Clifford Lawrie Bolton Ritchie Architects. It is located at the corner of 102 Avenue and 101 Street in Downtown Edmonton.
The two level shopping concourse houses luxury department store Holt Renfrew's Edmonton store as well 22 other stores and 3 restaurants. Manulife Place is connected by the Edmonton Pedway to Edmonton City Centre and Commerce Place. The building's namesake is Manulife.
At tall, with 36 floors, it was the tallest building in Edmonton from 1983 until 2011. In 2011 it was overtaken by Epcor Tower at.

History of the site

The location of Manulife Place was formerly the home of the King Edward Hotel which stood on the site from 1904 to 1980, before being destroyed by fire.
Manulife Place was constructed by the local general contractor PCL Construction, with another local contractor, C. W. Carry manufacturing and erecting the structural steel.