Winnipeg | 90 Alexander Ave | (Great West Metal Redevelopment)
Great West Metal (Redevelopment)
Location: 90 Alexander Ave Developer: RNDSQR Architects: 5468796 Architecture Contractor: Unknown Status: Proposed Media: Waterfront wrap-around, Calgary developers planning to surround a rehabilitated heritage building with two new rental developments Description: $100 million investment, 300 rental apartments split between two recently acquired properties including the current site of Great West Metal; plans also include to rehabilitate an existing heritage building to create 16,000-square-feet of commercial/office space. https://i.imgur.com/sRFDIz8.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/R9WWHPR.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/JPZAbIE.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/jU6WGMK.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/y0O9FrG.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0PR6fGz.jpg?2 Quote:
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This project looks great! That whole area is really coming together. The only other thing I would like to see on waterfront is something done with that ugly rusted metal warehouse down the street. Its a real eye sore.
Thanks for sharing this. :cheers: |
Amazing. Can’t wait.
$100 million for 300 units seems pretty high. |
That design looks straight out of Scandinavia... 546 is really leaving their mark on this town.
Great stuff. |
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There's an active manufacturing operation in that building right now in October of 2019. They expect to relocate the operation, get permits, demolish the building, build the new building, and have occupancy in 18 months? Tip of the hat to these ambitious gentlemen. |
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I've been pondering this announcement some more, here are a few idle thoughts:
-The scale of this project is impressive, it will push the area closer to having a bit of a critical mass to support local businesses and even just street life to make the place feel livelier than it currently does, especially after hours. -On that note, and I know this is old news, Ship Street Village is a monument to wasted potential. The fact that such a large amount of prime Waterfront Drive space is dedicated to a few measly townhouses is even more irritating now that it's clear that spot would be in great demand. -I like the bold design of this project. It's nice that there will be a heritage element incorporated into the whole thing. -Now that the obvious redevelopment sites along Waterfront have pretty well been used up, I wonder if we'll start to see a second wave of development move west from Waterfront? There are still loads of sites that are easily within a 9-iron shot of Waterfront itself, and it would really help the area take the next step into becoming a full-fledged neighbourhood. |
I love the overhead connections to the heritage building and the inner "wrap-around courtyard space.
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Whoa. Looks amazing!
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Congratulations on saving an old building and having a very quantifiably large development. This is all very encouraging.
But, to rain on the parade a little... I'm trying to understand the reasons for, or appeal of, this whole business of creating quasi-private 'space between buildings' as a more important consideration than the actual public space in front of the building - the street. This is basically the guiding design principle at Railside, and now it's being transplanted to a traditional street-block context of the northeast Exchange District. (And I know this block doesn't have a rear lane, and how creating new ones serve very practical purposes... but the lanes or whatever seem to be the focus here.) I really don't know where this trend is coming from. Is it just a local thing, or something in the design world more broadly right now? Is the public street environment so bad in downtown Winnipeg (traffic noise, crummy pedestrian environment, etc.) that designers want to create a better space elsewhere? I'm obviously critical, but I am honestly trying to understand this a little better... it just screams housing project to me. A cool Scandinavian housing project, sure, but still a housing project. |
What can I say? Amazingly good news for Waterfront Drive! The green great West metal building always stuck out like a sore thumb IMO, and seeing that metal building between Galt and George Ave.s will be a relief as well.
As for "wardlow's" comment on the quasi-private space between buildings, I don't really mind it. It reminds me of the small, semi-private space the apartments overlooked in the movie Rear Window....without the murders, of course. |
Not sure I like the look of the preliminary render. Is that corrugated metal siding supposed to be nod to the old sheet metal factory?
I don’t mind the interior laneways and I like the overpasses connecting the older bldg. I’m optimistic overall, but hopefully this isn’t done on the cheap |
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I like this inner courtyard/alley idea – it really reminds me of some of the lanes and infilled alley spaces in Gastown, especially Blood Alley and the redevelopment going on there. Also like older neighbourhoods in European cities like Lisbon, Barcelona, etc. where there's alleys everywhere with little shops. Quote:
Can anyone tell – are all the renders of the GWM site, and they haven't released plans for old rink yet? Quote:
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^ The value of an old, worn out tin shed used for ball hockey must be very low... its days would have to be numbered no matter what. For what it's worth, that area got a pretty impressive recreational facility a few years ago that blows the Duncan Sportsplex clear out of the water in terms of facilities...
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---- I'm curious about the "rules" for building finishes here. How come 546 is allowed to put up pretty heinous black corrugated metal wherever they please, but when that building on Maryland used white corrugated metal the city made them tear it down and put up something nicer? Was it because it wasn't designed by starchitects? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy the city did that on Maryland, but I just think we should be putting some limits on the use of barn siding in the city. Those guidelines from Minneapolis would be nice for our character areas. |
This devolved pretty quick.. I'm not too keen on the corrugated looking siding. hopefully it's just a render thing.
Duncan is a dump. Sport for Life centre as a replacement seems like a good option. |
Very exciting. What a change the area has taken from years ago when speed boat races were being done at the Alexander docks. There was nothing there, fast forward to now, all I can say is amazing.
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Super excited.
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