Huff Bremner Estate

Huff Bremner Estate was named following the amalgamation of two historic Edmonton neighborhoods: Huff Estate and Bremner. Bremner originally referred to the area north of 115th avenue and Huff Estate referred to the area south of 115th avenue. Huff Estate was named after Warren Huff, the founder of W.P. Huff's Dairy, while Bremner was named after James Charles Chatterton Bremner, a landowner in the area.{{Cite book|last=Aubrey|first=Merrily K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWWo___pkQUC|title=Naming Edmonton: From Ada to Zoie|publisher=University of Alberta Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0888644237|location=Edmonton|pages=153|chapter=Huff Bremner Estate Industrial}} Despite the fact that the majority of the neighborhood became industrial in the 1950s, in 1954 it was announced that a railyard area in the northwest corner of the neighborhood would become residential; however, this region has since been converted back to industrial.{{Cite news|date=January 15, 1954|title=Harvest of Good Work|page=4|work=The Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/469743157}}{{Cite news|date=January 12, 1954|title=Council Business Briefs|page=2|work=The Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/469742828}}{{Cite news|date=September 24, 1958|title=Find New Uses For Tram Rails|page=30|work=The Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/469748185}} In 1956, the Calgary Herald described Bremner Estate as one of "three major new [industrial areas]" emerging in Edmonton.{{Cite news|last=Nightscales|first=Jack|date=November 8, 1956|title=Edmonton Holds Lead in Industrial Growth|page=3|work=The Calgary Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/481861545}}

Huff Bremner Estate is bordered by Dominion Industrial to the north, Woodcroft to the east, McQueen to the south, and High Park Industrial to the west. Huff Bremner Estate sits at an altitude of 676 meters above sea level. In 2021, yegTreeMap, a municipally-run digital service that tallies and plots Edmonton tree locations, reported that Huff Bremner contains 63 trees, including European aspen, ash, elm, and mayday species.{{Cite web|date=January 31, 2021|title=Huff Bremner Estate Industrial|url=https://www.opentreemap.org/edmonton/map/?z=17/53.56389/-113.56884&q=%7B%22mapFeature.geom%22%3A%7B%22IN_BOUNDARY%22%3A%2230556%22%7D%7D|website=yegTreeMap}}

Huff Bremner has not had a significant resident population since it was rezoned as an industrial district in the 1950s. Despite this, commercial demographic data aggregator AreaVibes reported a population of {{nts|10}} living in Huff Bremner in 2022,{{Cite web|title=Huff Bremner Estate Industrial, Alberta Population & Demographics|url=https://www.areavibes.com/edmonton-ab/huff+bremner+estate+industrial/demographics/|access-date=2022-02-06|website=AreaVibes}} which is a 100% increase from the population of {{nts|5}} it reported in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Huff Bremner Estate Industrial, Alberta Population & Demographics |url=https://www.areavibes.com/edmonton-ab/huff+bremner+estate+industrial/demographics/ |access-date=2021-08-23 |website=AreaVibes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823132655/https://www.areavibes.com/edmonton-ab/huff+bremner+estate+industrial/demographics/ |archive-date=23 August 2021 |url-status=dead}} With a land area of {{convert|1.19|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}},{{cite web|title=Neighbourhoods (data plus kml file)|url=https://data.edmonton.ca/City-Administration/Neighbourhoods-data-plus-kml-file-/65fr-66s6|access-date=February 22, 2013|publisher=City of Edmonton}} these figures generate a population density of {{nts|8.4}} people/km². AreaVibes reports that 100% of this population is South American and age 65 or older.

The corner of 142 street and 111 avenue is named Coronation Corner. In 1955, developer Eugene Pechet made a proposal to the City of Edmonton to open the Yale Hotel at the corner of 142 street and 111 avenue, which resulted in numerous protests from residents of adjacent neighborhoods. Residents were concerned that the hotel bar would lead to public intoxication in the nearby Coronation Park and pose a risk to students at Ross Sheppard High School.{{Cite news|date=September 10, 1955|title=West End Residents Protest Proposed Hotel Location|page=9|work=The Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/469455062}} In 1956, Pechet's proposal was ultimately rejected.{{Cite news|date=February 20, 1956|title=City Council Upheld in Rejecting Hotel|page=13|work=The Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/470951264}} Later in 1956, a proposal to rezone the same corner for business instead of industrial was approved by City Council, but this was for the development of a service station.{{Cite news|last=Henton|first=Darcy|date=October 11, 2008|title=Dining Out: Bright and Bustling|page=F7|work=The Edmonton Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/478455606}}

Nexus Business Park is located in the northeast corner of Huff Bremner. The business park serves as the neighborhood's main shopping area, containing several supermarkets and restaurants.{{Cite news |last=Faulder |first=Liane |date=April 29, 2017 |title=Amid The Chaos, Place Of Sanctuary Emerged—For People And Their Pets |page=D9 |work=Edmonton Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/477021191/}}{{Cite web |title=Nexus Business Park |url=https://www.nearctic.com/property/nexus-business-park/ |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=Nearctic |language=en-CA}} A number of offices and organizations are also located in Nexus Business Park including the Centre for Family Literacy, the Alberta Genealogical Society, and the Edmonton Police Service Information Checks office.{{Cite news |last=Griwkowsky |first=Catherine |date=July 20, 2017 |title=Police Chief Praises Meeting On Carding Despite Protests |page=A5 |work=Edmonton Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/477024003/}}

Huff Bremner Estate is home to the historic Ford Parts and Accessories Depot, a building that is a municipally-designated heritage site on the basis of its architecture. In 1956, Canadian architect Kelvin Crawford Stanley designed the building, which is located at the northeast corner of 111 avenue and 149 street. In addition to the Ford Parts and Accessories Depot, Stanley designed a number of significant buildings in the City of Edmonton including the 1957 Edmonton City Hall and the Paramount Theatre.{{Cite book|last=Boddy|first=Trevor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAnXHwAACAAJ|title=Capital Modern: A Guide To Edmonton Architecture & Urban Design 1940-1969|publisher=Art Gallery of Alberta|year=2007|isbn=9780889501454|location=Edmonton|pages=61|chapter=Paramount Theatre}}{{Cite book|last=Murray|first=David|url=https://issuu.com/davidmurrayarchitect/docs/inventory_master_report_1|title=The Practice of Post-War Architecture in Edmonton, Alberta|publisher=Alberta Historical Resources Foundation|year=2001|location=Edmonton|pages=92–93|chapter=An Overview of the Modern Movement, 1936-1960|oclc=607186091}}{{Cite book|last=Boddy|first=Trevor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAnXHwAACAAJ|title=Capital Modern: A Guide To Edmonton Architecture & Urban Design 1940-1969|publisher=Art Gallery of Alberta|year=2007|isbn=9780889501454|location=Edmonton|pages=32–33|chapter=Forward}}

The historic Ford Parts and Accessories Depot has been noted for "its Early Modern adaptation of the International Style as applied to an industrial building, typified by the use of low horizontal appearance, flat roofs, office in front of a taller warehouse configuration, horizontal strip windows from clear anodized aluminum with continuous painted steel sunshades, white Italian travertine stone features such as perimeter façade trims and entrance feature walls, recessed entry with broad overhang, red brick construction with multi-hued brick under the windows and landscaped park-like setting along 111 avenue."{{Cite book|last1=Fedori|first1=Marianne|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/practice-of-post-war-architecture-in-edmonton-alberta-an-overview-of-the-modern-movement-1936-1960|title=The Practice of Post-War Architecture in Edmonton, Alberta|last2=Tingley|first2=Ken|last3=Murray|first3=David|publisher=The Alberta Historical Resources Foundation|year=2001|location=Edmonton|pages=64|chapter=Biographies of Selected Architects: Kelvin Crawford Stanley|oclc=607186091}}

• Alberta Genealogical Society
• Centre for Family Literacy
• Edmonton Association of the Deaf
• Edmonton Police Association
• Ford Parts & Accessories Depot

• Economy of Alberta
• List of neighborhoods in Edmonton

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• [https://www.thelocalrealtors.ca/huff-bremner-estate-industrial Huff Bremner Neighborhood Profile]

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