Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Corydon area

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by cheswick

LOL! Okay, I've been schooled!

[borkborkbork]

Does anyone know what the deal is with the SRO proposed for across the street from Pulse on River? Who's behind it other than the architects (2 Architecture)? Couldn't find anything about the numbered company. Is this going to be low-income rentals? An airbnb "hotel"? Something else?

[Wpg_Guy]

[Wpg_Guy]

653 McMillan
https://www.google.com/maps/place/65...7!4d-97.150587

[EspionNoir]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

653 McMillan
https://www.google.com/maps/place/65...7!4d-97.150587

That is very lovely

Is this a new trend?

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Aluminum doors should be painted black.

[buzzg]

Everything about the theatre design is just... off.

[kalabaw]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

653 McMillan
https://www.google.com/maps/place/65...7!4d-97.150587

Beautitful! More developments like this and the other "controversial" one please.

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Aluminum doors should be painted black.

It's begging for a cornice and some bloody windows

[bomberjet]

^^They always 'forget' to show the buildings that will be 2 feet on either side in those renders.

[GreyGarden]

It may have been mentioned in the restaurant thread but looks like ZA Pizza is going into the old second cup spot at the corner of Osborne and River.

[trueviking]

Nice! ^^ glad it’s not a pot store. Love Za. Was hoping they would do an urban storefront somewhere.

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by buzzg

Everything about the theatre design is just... off.

It doesn’t really say ‘theatre’ to me. I kind of liked it more before. Wonder how it’s going to age.

https://images.app.goo.gl/QnCbNMMjWiogSGwK6

[wardlow]

Originally Posted by trueviking

It doesn’t really say ‘theatre’ to me. I kind of liked it more before. Wonder how it’s going to age.

https://images.app.goo.gl/QnCbNMMjWiogSGwK6

I'm sure wood siding will age great when it's just above grade on a busy street, with snow and water and mud splashing on it year 'round... :/

[borkborkbork]

So looks like the the old Oxfords Salon/Beespace/New Leaf on Osborne is being converted into a WeWork-style coworking space:

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByDY_Zxg_Ll/

Wonder how this will play out, given that the new tower at 257 Osborne Confusion Corner was supposed to include coworking space as well.

In other OV news, it looks like The Village Pet is closing.

[Wolf13]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Advocating that a balance is essential between property rights and responsibilities is conservative philosophy. Socialists either do not believe in the ownership of private property or that the community's interests are paramount to that of the property owner.

It's just bad development, simply put. There can be no justification.

Responsibility does not mean trumping personal liberties. What we have here is a difference of opinion, and it's not conservative at all if in such a case you don't defer to the property owner. You're not the arbiter of responsibility.

There are regulations in place, and they either have already approved this, or will massage it. So responsibility will happen.

The weight you're putting behind your opinion is essentially trying to govern the use of land (as has been demonstrated in other threads) for the owner. You're assuming community power over the landowner. You're also assuming your opinion is the communities. Kinda aggressively socialist.

To reiterate my own opinion, I don't think the design is bad. Doesn't mean I don't think your idea of design would be better. But a community is a collection of neighbours moreso than houses, so personally I'm happy to pump the brakes sooner and let people be.

[Boreal]

Za Pizza Bistro is a special kind of magic. It's like Subway, if Subway was awesome and made pizza. What a wonderful location they are to be moving in to! That's a win for the Village.

[buzzg]

Great to hear about Za, was scared it'd be something awful.

I think the co-working space will do well there. This one sounds more focused on a hot-desk style, where I believe the one is Osborne Place is monthly desk rentals where you get a designated space. I also know one of the founders, I think this place will be VERY geared to women.

Co-working is massive everywhere else, it's good to see it taking off here too. Launch Co-working's second location is currently under construction at 55 Arthur, will be quite large.

I also heard WeWork has been kicking the tires at a couple VERY prominent locations here lately, can't disclose where yet though.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by Boreal

Za Pizza Bistro is a special kind of magic. It's like Subway, if Subway was awesome and made pizza. What a wonderful location they are to be moving in to! That's a win for the Village.

I am also glad not another pot store etc..ZA will do well even if I can no longer be a patron there. The meat toppings are absolutely awful low grade.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by buzzg

Great to hear about Za, was scared it'd be something awful.

I think the co-working space will do well there. This one sounds more focused on a hot-desk style, where I believe the one is Osborne Place is monthly desk rentals where you get a designated space. I also know one of the founders, I think this place will be VERY geared to women.

Co-working is massive everywhere else, it's good to see it taking off here too. Launch Co-working's second location is currently under construction at 55 Arthur, will be quite large.

I also heard WeWork has been kicking the tires at a couple VERY prominent locations here lately, can't disclose where yet though.

Looks like one of the founders of TableSpace is Mark Dufresne's daughter. Wonder if the family is invested.

Are we taking guesses for the WeWork location? I'm going to guess 201 Portage. High quality space with lots of vacancy. I know most WeWork spaces are in 'cooler' (e.g. Exchange) buildings, but I think their Calgary space is in a fairly generic office tower.