Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Fort Rouge - Page 37

Urban recluse · #**721** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 2:30 PM**

Oh, good one. Woke up this morning disenchanted with your life?

Riverman · #**722** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 3:01 PM**

No, I am the happiest guy on earth.

This is your big chance to get into the development game. Such opportunity!

borkborkbork · #**723** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 3:03 PM**

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"Our plan is to lease it out and hold it as a trophy asset," said Ransby, speaking in a telephone interview from Las Vegas

This fuckin' guy.

Urban recluse · #**724** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 3:13 PM**

No, it is the time for the idiots to sell the building to someone who knows what they are doing...like developers found in other cities.

CoryB · #**725** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 3:55 PM**

The Village really needs a retail rent structure that favours startups with heavily reduced rates that allow places to grow into paying higher bills. I still remember when the Toad was a tiny corner of the space it occupies now. Part of what made the Village special was that it had many smaller, independent places that offered stuff you really didn't find anywhere else. In the Village of old something like American Apperal would never have happened. It really needs to get back to that focus where someone with a vision can open something up and try something new without needing deep pockets to bankroll that idea through the high risk startup period.

Ando · #**726** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 4:01 PM**

Great, it's controlled by two-bit developers with no vision. Bowling alley in the basement? Because there's such demand for that. Super disappointing.

Urban recluse · #**727** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by CoryB

The Village really needs a retail rent structure that favours startups with heavily reduced rates that allow places to grow into paying higher bills. I still remember when the Toad was a tiny corner of the space it occupies now. Part of what made the Village special was that it had many smaller, independent places that offered stuff you really didn't find anywhere else. In the Village of old something like American Apperal would never have happened. It really needs to get back to that focus where someone with a vision can open something up and try something new without needing deep pockets to bankroll that idea through the high risk startup period.

I would say a variety of retail interests make it great, chains and non-chains.

Roger Strong · #**728** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by TimeFadesAway

SRO apartments that rent for a minimum of $975/month. For 275 sq. feet.

That seems pretty expensive for storage lockers.

Authentic_City · #**729** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 5:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ando

Great, it's controlled by two-bit developers with no vision. Bowling alley in the basement? Because there's such demand for that. Super disappointing.

Yeah, I couldn't believe they suggested a bowling alley in the basement. What is this 1960? When was the last time somebody opened a new bowling alley?

esquire · #**730** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Yeah, I couldn't believe they suggested a bowling alley in the basement. What is this 1960? When was the last time somebody opened a new bowling alley?

I think it tells you how totally out of gas these guys are. I guess if there was an auction sale somewhere with a bunch of old bowling equipment that could be had for a couple of grand, they'd give it a try.

Roger Strong · #**731** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 9:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Yeah, I couldn't believe they suggested a bowling alley in the basement. What is this 1960? When was the last time somebody opened a new bowling alley?

Perhaps they'll "appeal to today's youth" by bringing back Bowling for Dollars as a YouTube channel.

Urban recluse · #**732** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 9:36 PM**

If this was planned for the Balmoral, hey, have at her, but the Village? Really?

blueandgoldguy · #**733** Posted **Mar 24, 2017, 10:47 PM**

When 300 Assiniboine opened weren't there apartments renting for $900 a month in for 400 - 450 square feet? And that is a high rise right beside the river. These folks propose $1000 per month for a 275 square foot bachelor pad in a three story building. Who the hell would rent at those rates!?

BAKGUY · #**734** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 2:41 AM**

Osborne Village Inn plans..What a disaster and disappointment. A MICRO MESS!
We were hoping for a mid scale hotel with a few retail spots and a restaurant or 2.
This sounds horrid and who will pay near $1000.00 for 275 ft2? $1400.00 for $450 ft2?
Furnished with what, Ikea krap? people who can afford that will want more space and better value.

LilZebra · #**735** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 4:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Yeah, I couldn't believe they suggested a bowling alley in the basement. What is this 1960? When was the last time somebody opened a new bowling alley?

La Verendrye, offers 10-pin, opened in 2013 (according to Archive.org) (St. Boniface)
The Travelodge Hotel (St. Vital) has a 5-pin bowling alley. I think that just opened in the past year (but I could be wrong).
Academy Lanes West (Assiniboia)...5 and 10-pin lanes. Opened in the past 5 years or so.

And I've watched bowling since I was little, in the early 1970s, and continue to watch 10-pin PBA on ESPN on YouTube. Played 5-pin Adult Mixed at Academy 2006-10, 151 Avg.

The thing I didn't like closer to the end in 2010 when I played was the Millennials loved to txt in between their shots, which looked really rude to me. And the league kept increasing their weekly fees...Started at $12 in 2006 and went to $14 or so by 2010.

At that point I quit, and besides I got laid off from Ag. Canada the next year, so could no longer afford the $300+ a season to play.

Still I like to watch it on the tely.

Riverman · #**736** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 1:49 PM**

La Verendrye has been open a long time, I've bowled there in the 70s.

Kinguni · #**737** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by LilZebra

La Verendrye, offers 10-pin, opened in 2013 (according to Archive.org) (St. Boniface)
The Travelodge Hotel (St. Vital) has a 5-pin bowling alley. I think that just opened in the past year (but I could be wrong).
Academy Lanes West (Assiniboia)...5 and 10-pin lanes. Opened in the past 5 years or so.

All have been around longer than I've been alive. The only lane to open in the 50 years was St Vital lanes at St Annes and Bishop Grandin, which has since been replaced by an office building.

Roger Strong · #**738** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 10:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kinguni

The only lane to open in the 50 years was St Vital lanes at St Annes and Bishop Grandin, which has since been replaced by an office building.

And that opened in 1980 at the absolute latest.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**739** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 10:20 PM**

Okay, I'm hearing now that that was just a story to get the press to quit hassling him about it. Looks like the plan is still for it to be a hotel but with the vendor moved into the hotel. Old vendor to be demoed for the condos as in the original plan. Work starts immediately after vendor closes on the 31st. We should have known with that little gem about the bowling alley.

esquire · #**740** Posted **Mar 25, 2017, 11:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Okay, I'm hearing now that that was just a story to get the press to quit hassling him about it. Looks like the plan is still for it to be a hotel but with the vendor moved into the hotel. Old vendor to be demoed for the condos as in the original plan. Work starts immediately after vendor closes on the 31st. We should have known with that little gem about the bowling alley.

If so, then that doesn't really inspire much confidence either. What kind of legitimate developer makes up BS stories to throw the press off the trail? Especially when there are condos to be marketed? Sounds like a total amateur hour.