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Originally Posted by michelleb
Been wondering when we'd see movement on Southlands. Haven't noticed anything happening on the golf course lately.
The wheels sure turn slowly at U of M. 10 years since they purchased the property (how does it take 3 years to get from "finalized" to "officially acquired"?) and still no start date or pictures.
Not a fan of the university forcing a new four-lane road between Markham and the BRT, but who knows if it'll actually happen.
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The 4 lane road will run E-W starting at Sifton road (currently 2 lanes Westbound) all the way to the transit line (between Markham and IGF station), at which point it will follow the transitway to Southpark Drive, making that portion of the road multi-use, not just exclusive to transit.
You can see it in the PDF map of the Southwest transitway plans, in faint grey outline if you zoom in to the U of M area
http://winnipegtransit.com/assets/17...9_lowres_2.pdf
The reason this is moving slowly is that the U of M is making sure the execution of this project is done properly. They own the land and I presume they don’t pay tax on it since they are an academic institution so from a financial perspective, there is no time crunch and they will make more money if this is done properly. Not like a typical developer where vacant land = paying taxes and no revenue
Regarding the architect comments, aren’t those types of contests usually just for publicity and a large portion of the evaluation is the artistic element?