Winnipeg | Pembina Hwy Developments

[Rutlander]

Cambridge Flats

[cllew]

Originally Posted by EdwardTH

Especially balconies that were going to be a few feet away from Pembina. No one was going to hang around out there. It would reek like exhaust and be too loud to have a conversation most of the time.

Is it any different than all the restaurants that have a patio in a shopping mall parking lot and/or facing a major street? Those patio's always seem to be busy with people eating and drinking.

[bon_vivant]

The new apartment building on Nairn has balconies, and it's a far less pleasant street than Pembina IMO.

[Rutlander]

Cambridge Flats

[ColdRain&Snow]

Coming along nicely!

[Rutlander]

Cambridge Flats

[Rutlander]

Cambridge Flats/Residences

[Rutlander]

I walked over to Village Garden Centre at Pembina and Merriam last evening to get my annual batch of tomato plants, and it seems they are closed up and clearing off the site. Anyone know what's happening to this business?

[Rutlander]

[ColdRain&Snow]

Thanks for the update!

[Biff]

Strange construction method. The front 1/3 of the building is at the third floor, but the rest of the building has barely started.

[BlackDog204]

Excellent.

From my earliest memories, the Cambridge Hotel was always an eyesore on the Pembina Strip of Fort Garry. It's great that they are densifying the area.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Never thought of the Cambridge as an eyesore. Had beers there many times.

Having said that, the housing replacing it is great. Time marches on.

[rivercity]

With that said, i think its time to repeal the liquor laws around beer vendors needing a hotel. The pemby and camby were my go to convenient beer vendors.

[Mr Tall Forehead]

The Pemby and Cambridge were institutions...RIP to my university watering holes.

It's great to see densification along that strip but there are about 100 other lots that would qualify as greater eyesores than those two buildings were.

Oh, and agree on modernizing the liquor laws. No need for beer vendors to be affiliated with hotels anymore.

[bomberjet]

The new beer vendor at the Curtis on Henderson is awesome. Huge walk-in cooler style, next door to the hotel in the old Certigard. No need to be adjacent to the hotel.

How many of you have ever stayed in one of the hotels after a long night of buying beer and drinking in the hotel parking lot? (maybe I shouldn't ask LOL)

[rivercity]

"This licence is available to hotel operators and authorizes the sale of beer, beer products and other types of liquor. The retail beer vendor must be located in a hotel operated by the licensee, on a building located on the same land as the hotel, or on land adjacent to the hotel such that the hotel and beer vendor operate as a single establishment."

Beer vendor license. Without the pemby or camby existing, there can be no beer vendor.

[cllew]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

The new beer vendor at the Curtis on Henderson is awesome. Huge walk-in cooler style, next door to the hotel in the old Certigard. No need to be adjacent to the hotel.

How many of you have ever stayed in one of the hotels after a long night of buying beer and drinking in the hotel parking lot? (maybe I shouldn't ask LOL)

You may not have been able to get a room further north on Henderson at the Nor Villa.

I don't know if things have changed but in 2015 CBC Winnipeg had a report about a Winnipeg man who wanted to rent a room there for a few days and was told no way. If he had been part of a wedding party then there would have been no problem.

He went to a Transcona hotel and had no problem getting a room.

Apparently this restriction of renting to local residents is somewhat common in the hotel industry according to the head of the Manitoba Hotel Assoc back in 2015.

There is still a small amount of space on the north side of the new vendor (next to the vendor exit) that is unoccupied and was rumored to be either a future vape shop or cannabis store.

[BlackDog204]

Originally Posted by rivercity

"This licence is available to hotel operators and authorizes the sale of beer, beer products and other types of liquor. The retail beer vendor must be located in a hotel operated by the licensee, on a building located on the same land as the hotel, or on land adjacent to the hotel such that the hotel and beer vendor operate as a single establishment."

Beer vendor license. Without the pemby or camby existing, there can be no beer vendor.

I know of a couple of places you can get beer or hard liquor after 2:30. Both are in the inner city, and both are 24 hour convenience stores (not a chain) owned by South Asians.

The only issue, is that they jack up the price. It was the same in Edmonton and Calgary. However, they were both 24 hour pizza/donair joints owned by Asians.


Having said that, the province should go the way of Alberta, and just let the private sector sell booze until 2 AM most days.

[Malcsta]

Originally Posted by BlackDog204

I know of a couple of places you can get beer or hard liquor after 2:30. Both are in the inner city, and both are 24 hour convenience stores (not a chain) owned by South Asians.

The only issue, is that they jack up the price. It was the same in Edmonton and Calgary. However, they were both 24 hour pizza/donair joints owned by Asians.


Having said that, the province should go the way of Alberta, and just let the private sector sell booze until 2 AM most days.

What are these stores called..