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Originally Posted by biguc
Is creating a hellish wind tunnel on Graham and Hargraves part of the plan to drive people into the square? I never noticed on the renderings that there's zero setback on those towers.
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Originally Posted by robertocarlos
TNSE can do no wrong. It's the wind's fault.
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well true
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Originally Posted by esquire
Meh. Downtown Winnipeg is a giant wind tunnel at the best of times, I doubt TNS will make any appreciable difference. When I used to live at 15 Kennedy, it often felt like there was a stiff cold breeze blasting down Kennedy all winter long.
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Setbacks can certainly be useful for streetscaping and creating interactive space between project and road, but that was never the agenda for TNSE... it was alllll about sucking people into a vortex of mixed use density. It makes sense to minimize setbacks here because you simply cannot squeeze this ambition into the site otherwise.
Setbacks are often the bane and guillotine of ambitious projects, so I'm not upset about this one.
As for the wind... well, whatever, minor problem IMO