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Originally Posted by Bluenote
Move to Calgary then. You can have all the empty towers your heart desires. Sorry but Winnipeg is known world wide for its turn of the century building's and we have lost to many already to pie in the sky ideas like you want. And all were total failures.
Commodity exchange tower and the destruction of a city block.
Public safety building and city Hall and all the other Stalin styled shit built there which destroyed countless city blocks.
And the best of all. Portage place. 5 blocks destroyed for what? Yup you have it all figured out.........  |
I was sent to Winnipeg for a few weeks to work for my employer in the Canada Building in the early 1980's and was left with a lasting impression of all the beautiful, ornate architecture downtown. Even back then many of those fantastic buildings were empty and getting run down. It saddens me to hear that several have since been torn down, and it sounds like more could be facing the same fate. Such a loss.