Winnipeg | Exchange District | Developments & Discussions

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It's horseshit they had to remove storeys from the plan. They were proposing 12 storeys and had to scale it back.

We're lucky that didn't kill the project, though I'm sure the long delays and conflict that came with this are a clear signal to other developers that it's not worth developing parking lots in the Exchange.

The cherry on top of the hearings was when city staff all fixated on how there were >100ft buildings, but they were "built before our zoning bylaws" -- basically, "we'd never let anyone build this great building again". Oh, and how the character of the area, historically, was that "no one building would dominate all the others in height" (ahem, Union Bank building?!)

The Architecture Foundation does some great work but I sometimes think they'd be happy if we just returned to the 90s and had a perfectly preserved but near-empty Exchange.