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Originally Posted by Canadian Mind
My apologies, I meant which city in this section (ie. the section about cities in Manitoba, and cities at the bottom of that giant pit between Manitoba and Alberta).
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oh haha
surely Brandon MB will get the first
i kid, i kid...likely in this case, it would be Winnipeg.
Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Regina are the biggest cities in this section, and while Regina has an absolutely (and unarguably) amazing skyline for a city of 200k, I do not see Regina getting a 150m or taller building soon, and neither Saskatoon. Realistically, unless someone who lives there can extrapolate or argue further/better, the cities are too small to have private development on that scale. Regina would have the better shot imo, because that's where head offices tend to go, but if I'm even a housing developer, I'd rather build further out on cheaper land in multiple units rather than build a hypothetical 150m tower downtown in the city somewhere. Perhaps something happens on the oil sands side of things and Saskatchewan gets a new crown corp-level company in the next 20 years, and they build a brand new tower in Regina...that is entirely possible...but it likely won't be over 150m unless Regina had some magical population boom or there is enough workforce for this company in Regina such that it makes sense to build up a tower that tall.
To that end, simply because Winnipeg is bigger today and is the fastest growing city under a million people in Canada, it likely has the better and more realistic shot. Not to turn this into a poo fling contest or x city is better than y city, but realistically Winnipeg would get one first.
In fact, the hydro building could have become a tall 150+ meter building if they went with this proposal instead of the much more energy efficient building we know today (
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=25691) and it would have been ~170m tall.
That said, Winnipeg needs to focus on filling up those parking lots first, and who knows when we'd get a 150m plus tower. Unless you strap viking to an electrical chair and he spills the beans, of course.