Final floor caps Edmonton Tower in Ice District

The Ice District celebrated a milestone Wednesday with a ceremony marking the official "topping off"of Edmonton Tower, now in the final stageof construction.

It will bethe first highrise to be completedin the development around Rogers Place.

"It's going to be a centre for commerce, and a centre for governance, a centre for crucial activity in our city," Mayor Don Iveson said at a ceremonial concrete pouring of the top floor."It's a big investment in our downtown."

More than 65 per centof the city's current downtown workforce, about 2,300 employees, will occupy 17 of the tower's 27 floors starting this November.

At this point, 75 per cent of the building space has been leased, with Katz Group officials saying they're confident the remainder of the building will fill up by the time the toweris finished.