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In 2014, former mayor Don Atchison made one of his signature boasts as council endorsed a new twin-tower project for the downtown.

“This eliminates urban sprawl,” Atchison said after council gave its unanimous approval to a project that promised to deliver the province’s tallest tower on a patch of land on 22nd Street between Third and Fourth avenues.

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The City Centre Tower project, as approved, would have changed Saskatoon’s skyline forever by adding the tallest building in Saskatchewan, a 105-metre beast slotted for the northwest corner of Third and 22nd.

An adjacent tower at 22nd and Fourth would have climbed 87 metres, eclipsing the current title holder for Saskatchewan’s tallest building, Regina’s 84.5-metre Mosaic Potash Tower. Even the shorter of the buildings would have been a monster by Saskatchewan standards.

As monumental as the size of the proposed project was to be, the promise of adding 290 residential units downtown would have been the project’s greatest accomplishment.