Picea glauca left, and 2 Picea abies on the right

The one on the left looks like a White Spruce, perhaps the variety called 'Black Hills Spruce' - note the small cones near the top (a close-up of the cones would help confirm the identity).

The other two look more like Norway Spruces.

Resin

first pic... probably optical illusion .. but it appears way to close to that building ...

i think you were just scouting around ... so no big deal ... but both of those are telephone pole trees ... and in a decade or two.. will be 40 or 50 feet tall ... and perhaps not properly sited by that time ... you see what i mean ... and the link ... you can switch to the other named plant ...

ken

https://www.google.com/search?q=Picea+abies&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitk5_w97vLAhUM7SYKHQgKBmgQ_AUIBygB&biw=983&bih=743&dpr=0.9

another cliche ... they were planted for immediate instant gratification .. with no concept of their future potential ...

i understand they fulfill a need ... but the landscaper/architect/builder will be long gone.. when they start becoming a problem ... second pic.. looks like they are already at the curb [probably a camera angle thing.. but still not all that far] ... and even if they arent.. a year or 3 of normal growth .... will have them out in the street ...

and then some tree hugger will say ... oh i just hate to cut them down ... or the city will roll buy ... and slice off the street side ... etc

ken

Ken, that's nothing. There's about 7 more to the right of these that are grouped way to close together. Smack dab in the middle of the median.

It appears to be simple screening planting. Aren't we kind of going around the bend in mischaracterizing a simple grouping of spruce trees! As to their identities, all three look like 'Black Hills' variant white spruce. Not my favorite spruce. Not my second-favorite spruce. Not my third-favorite spruce. And onward and upward...but these look ok at the present time.

Yeah, that looks like a pretty good tree. I just don't like 'Black Hills' and my reasons vary: first, I live in a state where white spruce is a native plant. As such, it makes zero sense to me that we should be planting a non-native variant of a native plant. There is nothing intrinsically better about a strain of white spruce that originated in the Dakotas. We have our own gene pool. Second, it is one of the spruce varieties getting hammered around here by a variety of fungal pathogens. Your doesn't look like this, but many around here do. And third, one of my absolute favorite trees is the Norway spruce. I like trees with the genetic potential to attain size. That's just me, but you asked! The Norway spruce is more a tree than any of our eastern N. American spruce species. Therefor, in my hierarchy of things, if one is going to plant spruce, I prefer to see a better (by my value system) tree be planted.