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[eman]

Originally Posted by eman

Anybody know what is going on behind 253 River Ave. All trees, all the way to the river were cleared this week. I looked through old posts, but didn't
find anything. The land has been used for homeless encampments. Oddly, the property is only accessible by a narrow lane, not sure 2 cars could pass behind the buildings on the the street side.

I just heard from someone that Akman is planning to build a 7-story apartment building with 145 units there.

Reasonable number of units. I am always hoping for more. Easily could be 200+ units on that lot.

[bon_vivant]

Originally Posted by WpgRocksDude

Thank you thank you,

Still working on getting more of them up to span down to confusion corner. Unfortunately 2 of those light poles were casualties from the crash in front of Rooster...

The big shipment of xmas lights that was placed late in the summer didnt arrive until after xmas, and the white ball lights were the most thematically ambiguous of the bunch so they'll likely be left up all year. There will be more festive lighting ready to be put up for next winter.

I'm sorry. My previous knee-jerk comment was harsh. The crotchety old man in me tends to come out sometimes. The lights are very pretty.

[pegster]

Originally Posted by eman

Anybody know what is going on behind 253 River Ave. All trees, all the way to the river were cleared this week. I looked through old posts, but didn't
find anything. The land has been used for homeless encampments. Oddly, the property is only accessible by a narrow lane, not sure 2 cars could pass behind the buildings on the the street side.

I assume anything built there would be accessible from Mayfair, no? The lot is more visible from Mayfair than from River.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by FactaNV

That neighbourhood is absolutely booming. One could dream about some buy outs and having a line of towers running from Osborne Station up to Jubilee, just behind or on Osborne itself. All these great businesses need more customers anyways haha.

Like this use of surplus city property, which Janice Lukes and her band of idiots 86ed?

[rivercity]

Yeah thank god they turned that surplus land into a... chunk of mowed grass with a wooden fence...? Yet to see a single person use it

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by eman

I just heard from someone that Akman is planning to build a 7-story apartment building with 145 units there.

Reasonable number of units. I am always hoping for more. Easily could be 200+ units on that lot.

I believe they are able to fit seven stories under the high-rise limit. The threshold where costs increase dramatically. Must be concrete construction.

[WinCitySparky]

I thought it was 6 for some reason

[trueviking]

Six floors is the allowable maximum for wood frame. High-rise is defined by height not floors. 18 meters to the top of the floor of the top storey. If you are tight it can be done. The Bend on waterfront is 7 and is below high-rise classification.

[WinCitySparky]

Ah I see, good to know the distinction

[bomberjet]

Arguing semantics. But Akman is hired to build a 7 storey building. They're not the owner.

[WpgRocksDude]

Originally Posted by bon_vivant

I'm sorry. My previous knee-jerk comment was harsh. The crotchety old man in me tends to come out sometimes. The lights are very pretty.

No worries, your comments are valid

[ColdRain&Snow]

333 Wardlaw Ave is now open as of yesterday:



Looking at the Paragon Living website, it seems that 47 out of the 55 rental apartments are already filled. All 1-bedrooms are leased, the only remaining apartments are 6 2-bedroom apartments on the main floor and 2 3-bedroom apartments.

https://rentals.paragonliving.com/residential/333-wardlaw-avenue

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

333 Wardlaw Ave is now open as of yesterday:

Won't win any beauty contests but nice to have some density there.

[Mr Tall Forehead]

https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/PPD/Documents/CityPlanning/Reports/24-271912-VC.pdf

Evidently the variances for the proposed mixed use building at Stafford and McMillan expired so it has been resubmitted. Looks like it has been redesigned from the initial proposal. It seems to look less gimmicky and includes more prominent commercial space fronting Stafford now.

[ColdRain&Snow]

^The new design looks nice, if a bit generic. Should make a good addition to that corner.

[trueviking]

the stafford side looking like a prominent facade is a better move....they hired a different architect......a lot of copy and paste there but take it.

[Kris22]

Ya it’s bit plain but there are enough good design elements to make it a good urban infill project. Looking forward to seeing it go up!

[zalf]

Plain sure, but way better than the fake multiple-buildings-in-multiple-styles-joined-by-party-walls thing they had going before.

I really love when you do genuinely have buildings joined by party walls that are all clearly distinct from one another, but you've got to earn that. The previous design was like the pleather version of incremental development.

[WinCitySparky]

Yeah it was architectural uncanny valley

[bomberjet]

Proposal for 128 River Ave, closer to Main St.

6 storey building. Nice to see some action in that area.
http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/permalink.asp?id=A20250224(RM)CCC-18