221-227 Stradbrook Ave - 18 Storey Residential Apartment
Anyone catch this article?
"New Stradbrook Avenue apartment tower gets committee endorsement" 'By: Aldo Santin" "Winnipeg Free Press" "Posted: 11/7/2017 1:08 PM" Quote:
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/lo...455897723.html |
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It has been discussed in the Winnipeg Construction IX thread some time back.
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Renders are already out of date as the townhouses have been cancelled.
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Red fin will be taken out to save money. That’s for sure lol
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The live-work townhouse units were taken out because of a couple of things: (1) the Winter Club, who previously owned the land, put a caveat on the sale that any development would have a high amount of accessory parking (1.5 stalls per unit). The developer could have gotten a major reduction through a variance, but they weren’t allowed to because of the caveat. Apparently the Winter Club was worried about spillover parking taking up their many surface parking spots around their dumpy fortress of a building.
(2) The property is on a combined sewer, and regulations for such a big development required them to instill an underground tank, which would have cost a lot. Not sure if they don’t need to do this without the townhouse units or what. At this point, they are still planning on having a ground floor commercial unit, and the ground floor of the main 18-storey complex is supposed to be quite permeable. Not as great as it could have been, but more pedestrian-friendly than a good number of proposed East Exchange/Portage and Main developments I’ve seen lately. |
^ Good to hear. The project is no one's ideal of design perfection, but hey, it's still an 18 storey residential tower that takes up a prominent vacant lot near a BRT station so it's not all bad.
I wonder if that little wedge of land to the east will ever get developed? I hope it doesn't become a permanent little wasteland... does the Winter Club still own it? |
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BTW your description of the WWC as a dumpy fortress is quite apt... I wish there was some way to make it look less horrendous. Perhaps the day will come when the land reaches a value that makes it worthwhile for WWC to sell to developers and rebuild its facility somewhere else. |
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Still debating the renders... They're old..
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All the hi-rises surrounding the planned project are "Brutalist"/Post-modern architecture. I guess they have to design it to fit in with the surroundiing buildings.
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What's wrong with the design? Looks like a normal building. Windows are actually quite large in the render.
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Five Donald recently redid their little plaza and landscaping out front... looks kinda odd TBH.
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I was referring to this post. But yes the winter club is junk. Rip away haha
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Added to Construction IX.
I'll just have to be mindful if/when new renders are released to post. |
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