Winnipeg Construction IX - Page 290

Biff · #**5781** Posted **Jan 17, 2018, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Anyone know what's going in between the Chamois Car Wash and Tim Horton's on St. James at Wellington?

Max's Restaurant

Roger Strong · #**5782** Posted **Jan 17, 2018, 9:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Max's Restaurant

Has he named it?

Tacheguy · #**5783** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 12:56 AM**

Councillor Allard with a strong rationale for approval of the Provencher project (recorded in the minutes). Basically said the area needs many more projects like it if the street is going to thrive. Carried!

BAKGUY · #**5784** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

Some of the priceless NIMBY opposition to the four storey apartment proposed for Provencher Boulevard....at Community Committee.

Rental units bring crime to the area.
Blocks the view of the cathedral for people across the street.
Too tall.
Angry about the loss of the parking spaces.

Imbeciles.

BAKGUY · #**5785** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 2:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

People in Old St. B must be afraid of their own shadows.

They are. Some woman over a hundred years of age was opposed to a 7 floor condo beside her property a couple of years back. backwards thinking, backwards people.She garnered all kinds of sympathy that I think nixed the proposal? Why would you not want that area to thrive? Much of it is ripe for investment. Provencher Bl should have been the French equivalent of Corydon or Os Village decades ago..

pegcityboy · #**5786** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 3:46 AM**

Maybe old news but heard hotel is back on at casino , still Canad Inns , construction to start May or June . The hotel is 18 stories

blueandgoldguy · #**5787** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 5:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by pegcityboy

Maybe old news but heard hotel is back on at casino , still Canad Inns , construction to start May or June . The hotel is 18 stories

Which casino? McPhillips or Regent? If McPhillips, any word on the conference centre that was supposed to be a part of it?

rrskylar · #**5788** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 6:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Max's Restaurant

https://www.maxschicken.com/

wags_in_the_peg · #**5789** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Max's Restaurant

Filipino franchise, very popular over there

esquire · #**5790** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 2:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by pegcityboy

Maybe old news but heard hotel is back on at casino , still Canad Inns , construction to start May or June . The hotel is 18 stories

That's certainly good news, but it's somehow comical to think that CanadInns will have two fairly tall hotels barely 2 km apart, straddling both sides of a drab, down at the heels light industrial area.

bomberjet · #**5791** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 2:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy

Which casino? McPhillips or Regent? If McPhillips, any word on the conference centre that was supposed to be a part of it?

It says McPhillips in the post.

CoryB · #**5792** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wolf13

I'm in East St. Paul, and a multi-fam proposal is slated for just inside the perimter at an upper-middle price point, and some people are laughably concerned!

The challenge with that proposal is more that it is effectively encroaching on the neighbouring properties by building right up to the property line rather than staying within the accepted setbacks. That would mean that if the neighbouring property wanted to do a similar development in the future they wouldn't get approval as the two developments would be far too close together.

I think the other issue could be based on where the ESP/Winnipeg boundary is within the Perimeter. From what I recall though the proposed development falls on the Winnipeg side. Building a multi-family apartment style development just across the Winnipeg boundary is playing a little on a the dirty side of things.

esquire · #**5793** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 5:14 PM**

^ I don't think ESP could ever get away with allowing MURBs anywhere except that little wedge between Winnipeg city limits and the Perimeter. I'm sure they'd like to establish a little multi-unit residential foothold there... it would be good for their tax base.

CoryB · #**5794** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 5:35 PM**

BTW since Winnipeg is officially out of the race for Amazon HQ2 can we now focus on our bid to host the 2024 Winter Olympics? After all you miss all the shots you don't take...

esquire · #**5795** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 5:46 PM**

^ Alpine events at Garbage Hill!

Roger Strong · #**5796** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 5:48 PM**

Of the three options - Amazon HQ2, 2024 Winter Olympics and emerald ash borer - we're hosting the one that'll cost the taxpayers the least.

drew · #**5797** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 6:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by CoryB

BTW since Winnipeg is officially out of the race for Amazon HQ2 can we now focus on our bid to host the 2024 Winter Olympics? After all you miss all the shots you don't take...

I am sure we have discussed this - we can't do the winter olympics (you can't change geography).

So, we need to bid on the SUMMER olympics. Most of the Pan-Am games venues will suffice. Fresh coat of paint at the pan-an pool - and good to go.

Roger Strong · #**5798** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

I am sure we have discussed this - we can't do the winter olympics (you can't change geography).

I'm sure we could find a site or two a couple hundred kilometers away - just like Beijing did for 2024.

We'd need bobsled runs and whatnot, but since an Olympic bid assumes (unofficially) an unlimited budget from the taxpayers...

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Originally Posted by drew

So, we need to bid on the SUMMER olympics. Most of the Pan-Am games venues will suffice. Fresh coat of paint at the pan-an pool - and good to go.

Not sure if serious....?

They wouldn't just demand new venues. They'd demand everything from a whole lot of new residential to house everyone to traffic lanes from the airport to the venues set aside for the Olympic committee brass.

Rio 2016 had a lot of cheap labor, so they hosted it for only USD 4.6 billion. (That's direct costs, NOT including all the upgrades to road, rail, airports and other infrastructure.) Beijing 2008 cost USD 40-44 billion and Sochi 2014 cost USD 51 billion.

CoryB · #**5799** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

I am sure we have discussed this - we can't do the winter olympics (you can't change geography).

Oh but you are wrong there. There is nothing to say we couldn't use tax payer money to build suitable facilities for the alpine events. Sure if would be cheaper is we had mountains here but if we as taxpayers want to chase after every pipedream we have not hope of winning like Amazon HQ2 we definitely need to get behind bidding on the Winter Olympics. Think of all those spinoff benefits we are going to miss out on.

drew · #**5800** Posted **Jan 18, 2018, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Roger Strong

I'm sure we could find a site or two a couple hundred kilometers away - just like Beijing did for 2024.

We'd need bobsled runs and whatnot, but since an Olympic bid assumes (unofficially) an unlimited budget from the taxpayers...

Not sure if serious....?

They wouldn't just demand new venues. They'd demand everything from a whole lot of new residential to house everyone to traffic lanes from the airport to the venues set aside for the Olympic committee brass.

Rio 2016 had a lot of cheap labor, so they hosted it for only USD 4.6 billion. (That's direct costs, NOT including all the upgrades to road, rail, airports and other infrastructure.) Beijing 2008 cost USD 40-44 billion and Sochi 2014 cost USD 51 billion.

not serious.