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Originally Posted by bomberjet
Where's the one with the mountains? haha
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I think that's phase 4 of the project. I'd support that gofundme page.
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Originally Posted by Bluenote
When you compare the footprint of the original tower that was planned and taking into account that thr foundations were built for that structure back in 1979, why is this tower using only half the original structures foundation. It seems weird as its placment is so far away from the originals i wonder if the original plans foundation was truely that large.
Seeing as the elevator shaft is exactly where it wluld have been in 1979. Or was there a plan for two sets of shafts?
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Originally Posted by GarryEllice
The original tower was planned to be an office tower. A residential tower inherently has to be skinnier because everyone needs a window.
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Exactly. The office market was reasonably ok here (by Winnipeg standards) and the TNS came up, so that killed any office ideas they may have had (doubt they wanted that anyway, otherwise this would have been built decades ago). The smaller floorplate and thus less weight per floor allowed them to build taller.
However, I'd guess that the original 300 main rendering was larger in size overall... I think 360 Main is around 550,000 sf excluding the mall, and the second tower is noticeably girth-ier.
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Originally Posted by esquire
Seems that both iterations have their pros and cons.
Original plan
-2nd tower would have been much bigger and taken up a larger amount of space
-building in between was much more substantial
Actual
-2nd tower is taller
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I'd consider the age old real estate principle of highest and best use here... especially now more than in the past, experienced developers will try to maximize their site. The foundation for the majority of the central portion was, despite rumours and renderings, not structurally capable of handling more than one floor. So they appear to be doing what they can.
Similarly, they are building apartments... much better use than office these days.
Hell, even back then in the 80s, the highest and best use for the site turned out to be take the money and run... clearly seeing the development through wasn't worth the trouble of building out the block. How they got away with it, I don't know.