Other Manitoba and Saskatchewan Developments

[Runt]

Steinbach looks to be getting a 9 floor / 120 foot mix use building.
Nice project for the city.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by Runt

Steinbach looks to be getting a 9 floor / 120 foot mix use building.
Nice project for the city.

They are planning for it to have a top floor restaurant.

[optimusREIM]

^ That's fantastic news

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Runt

Steinbach looks to be getting a 9 floor / 120 foot mix use building.
Nice project for the city.

That's pretty impressive. Any idea as to where?

I'm not sure about their heights, but Brandon's tallest buildings have 11 storeys IIRC (Scotia Tower and CanadInns, possibly one of the BU residences). At the rate Steinbach is going with its projects, I wonder if it might soon get a project that exceeds that floor count?

[esquire]

Found this "preliminary sketch" on SteinbachOnline.com ... looks like a pretty substantial building. Not the most urban site layout, but it's Steinbach, so whatever.


Source: https://steinbachonline.com/local/st...final-approval

A proposed senior's high-rise complex at 333 Loewen Boulevard in Steinbach has received the green light from city council. The proposal is for a nine-storey building that would have both commercial and residential tenants. The plan features five stories of senior's housing, including 33 apartments, 56 supportive housing units and 56 personal care beds. It also includes health-related businesses and a restaurant. The matter was headed to a Municipal Board hearing after a neighbour issued a formal objection to the plan.

[balletomane]

Originally Posted by esquire

That's pretty impressive. Any idea as to where?

I'm not sure about their heights, but Brandon's tallest buildings have 11 storeys IIRC (Scotia Tower and CanadInns, possibly one of the BU residences). At the rate Steinbach is going with its projects, I wonder if it might soon get a project that exceeds that floor count?

Exciting news for Steinbach

Even Winkler could get one that surpasses those of Brandon, it has two 9 storey apartment buildings and the recently completed Buhler Active Living Centre at 8 stories.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by balletomane

Exciting news for Steinbach

Even Winkler could get one that surpasses those of Brandon, it has two 9 storey apartment buildings and the recently completed Buhler Active Living Centre at 8 stories.

I don't think I had even heard about the Buhler Active Living Centre before...



Looks like the race for second place in Manitoba's skyline standings is heating up... your move, Brandon!

[Jeff]

Winkler is ahead due to the way they have everything clustered around their central mall. The location of this new seniors centre in Steinbach will do nothing for density Would have been amazing if this were somewhere along their main street.

[dennis]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Winkler is ahead due to the way they have everything clustered around their central mall. The location of this new seniors centre in Steinbach will do nothing for density Would have been amazing if this were somewhere along their main street.

It's very close to their hospital. I think it would be akin to the seniors high rise cluster around Grace Hospital in Winnipeg. Seniors like to live close to health care facilities.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by dennis

It's very close to their hospital. I think it would be akin to the seniors high rise cluster around Grace Hospital in Winnipeg. Seniors like to live close to health care facilities.

true. I'm sure urbanism isn't high on anyone's list in these types of towns.. otherwise they'd live in Win..kler?

[Roger Strong]

Originally Posted by Jeff

true. I'm sure urbanism isn't high on anyone's list in these types of towns.. otherwise they'd live in Win..kler?

The issues are just a bit different.

I lived in Mitchell, a couple miles west of Steinbach for a couple years. The town was growing rapidly, and still is.

The RM of Hanover was insisting on not allowing any new development between Steinbach and Mitchell. They feared that Mitchell would be lost to the RM, absorbed into Steinbach.

Judging by the new developments since then, they've given up.

[The Bess]

New plant outside of Saskatoon

http://www.ckom.com/syn/648/137601/d...-plant-in-sask

[DavefromSt.Vital]

Several historic buildings in Virden burned down:

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/lo...447178803.html

As noted by the WFP, the building where the fire started had two fires in radically different areas at different times during the same day. Also, while I don't have a story to link to, the old Two Creeks School on Highway 83 a little northwest of Virden at the railway tracks burned as well within hours. There appears to be a firebug on the loose...

[DavefromSt.Vital]

Eventually media picked up the part about the Two Creeks (Ross) school burning down within hours as well. Given the timing, I would be stunned if the fire was not set by the same person who set the one in Virden. For those that have access to the Free Press, you also have access to the Brandon Sun:

https://www.brandonsun.com/local/fir...447835573.html

Although the school had been abandoned for ages, it really stood out when you drove along Highway 83. While people from Virden would have little reason to drive up Highway 83, lots of people who live along 83 go to Virden. Perhaps it is just my junor detective skills kicking in, but if I was looking for the person responsible I would be looking somewhere along 83.

The circumstances of this case remind me of the guy who burned down several of the things that I liked in Winnipeg a number of years ago (a building that really stood out in Osborne Village, the water tower for the little train in Assiniboine Park, etc.). All the targets had some local significance or otherwise loomed large in the local imagination. In Virden, it was a big deal that the destroyed buildings appeared as period pieces in "A Dog's Purpose". The school was really the only significant thing to see between the Trans Canada and the Assiniboine Valley on 83. Hopefully they catch the guy before he picks a new target.

[LilZebra]

If N. Korea and US enter the planet into World War III and Winnipeg was some how affected, where do you think people would go?

If electricity, Internet, heating were to get conked out for years and most of the Canadian prairies for that matter would become uninhabitable...

Where would we go?

Minneapolis would be nice, but their Winters are just as brutal as ours.

Wouldn't want to go to "hurricane country" like TX, FL, Alab. because I don't want to live through that kind of weather.

Calif. and NY are out of the question.

St. Louis MO gets snow, Salt Lake City UT.

Arizona? New Mexico?

I don't know.

Estimates are that 90% of US pop. would die just from starvation and nuke radiation fallout.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by LilZebra

If N. Korea and US enter the planet into World War III and Winnipeg was some how affected, where do you think people would go?

If electricity, Internet, heating were to get conked out for years and most of the Canadian prairies for that matter would become uninhabitable...

Where would we go?

Minneapolis would be nice, but their Winters are just as brutal as ours.

Wouldn't want to go to "hurricane country" like TX, FL, Alab. because I don't want to live through that kind of weather.

Calif. and NY are out of the question.

St. Louis MO gets snow, Salt Lake City UT.

Arizona? New Mexico?

I don't know.

Estimates are that 90% of US pop. would die just from starvation and nuke radiation fallout.

Why would the prairies be uninhabitable? People lived here before there was internet LOL. Sure there would be suffering, but people would adapt until things got rolling again. It would not take years to at least get some electricity back. We have water, farmland, coal. natural gas and oil. People would figure out how to get that out of the ground and transported even if the refineries were nuked. In the mean time, there is plenty of wood around. It is pretty easy to build a heating stove out of an old oil drum, for example.

I think it is more likely people will be coming up from the States to get away from fallout and anarchy and to steal our stuff. I would not want to be in AZ with no A/C or water.

Winnipeg is unlikely to be targeted as there is little of strategic value there in a military sense. Regina on the other hand has a massive oil refinery, steel mill and is the crossroads of many oil pipelines.

[TimeFadesAway]

Originally Posted by LilZebra

If N. Korea and US enter the planet into World War III and Winnipeg was some how affected, where do you think people would go?

If electricity, Internet, heating were to get conked out for years and most of the Canadian prairies for that matter would become uninhabitable...

Where would we go?

Minneapolis would be nice, but their Winters are just as brutal as ours.

Wouldn't want to go to "hurricane country" like TX, FL, Alab. because I don't want to live through that kind of weather.

Calif. and NY are out of the question.

St. Louis MO gets snow, Salt Lake City UT.

Arizona? New Mexico?

I don't know.

Estimates are that 90% of US pop. would die just from starvation and nuke radiation fallout.

No need to worry, we'd all be dead. 99% of us lack the skills to live truly and completely off of any grid of any kind.

[Roger Strong]

Originally Posted by LilZebra

If electricity, Internet, heating were to get conked out for years and most of the Canadian prairies for that matter would become uninhabitable...

Not that this would happen.

- We generate our own electricity.

- Being connected, the US grid going down might take ours down - but only for a few hours at most.

- The Canadian grid is much better hardened against EM interference than the American one. (According to what I've read about hardening against solar flares. We've learned the hard way to do this.)

- North Korea has only a limited number of nukes. Manitoba infrastructure simply isn't a target.

- Nor is radiation a significant problem a few miles beyond the blast zones. A nuke-fest between the US and North Korea probably wouldn't raise our background radiation level anywhere near as high as the above-ground nuclear weapons testing of the 1950s.

[drew]

Originally Posted by Stormer

Why would the prairies be uninhabitable? People lived here before there was internet LOL. Sure there would be suffering, but people would adapt until things got rolling again. It would not take years to at least get some electricity back. We have water, farmland, coal. natural gas and oil. People would figure out how to get that out of the ground and transported even if the refineries were nuked. In the mean time, there is plenty of wood around. It is pretty easy to build a heating stove out of an old oil drum, for example.

I think it is more likely people will be coming up from the States to get away from fallout and anarchy and to steal our stuff. I would not want to be in AZ with no A/C or water.

Winnipeg is unlikely to be targeted as there is little of strategic value there in a military sense. Regina on the other hand has a massive oil refinery, steel mill and is the crossroads of many oil pipelines.

We have a fairly major airforce base here, including the headquarters for the Canadian NORAD region.

[Gm0ney]

Originally Posted by drew

We have a fairly major airforce base here, including the headquarters for the Canadian NORAD region.

If there's a full scale nuclear exchange between Russian or China and the US, then Winnipeg is definitely on the list.