Winnipeg Construction XI

[neutroniks]

Doesn't it also have HAF funding?

[neutroniks]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

I had a guy on my Facebook complaining about the Shanghai Tower in China Town. "Durn imagrints stealin r muney" or something along those lines.

Re: funding for that project. Is the money from the Feds a low interest loan or just straight up cash funding? I couldn't figure that out in all the press releases.

It soothes their smooth brain conspiracy that the "Replacement Theory" is real.

[bomberjet]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/20m-funding-announced-for-chinatown-housing-project/

The funding for this project consists of $14.3 million from the Affordable Housing Fund of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. $2 million was granted through Winnipeg’s Housing Accelerator Fund agreement. The province put in $3.7 million. The city put $535,481 as a heritage and economic development incentive.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

The situation you have described above, where anti-development councilors get elected and more car centric sprawl gets built on the edge of the city, is unfortunately what the majority of the general public wants. So you could say Democracy is working as intended... It's hard to blame people like Orlikow when he is doing what most of his constituents want him to do.

Here's the challenge, and I don't think it's splitting hairs:

Are the people who don't want the sixplex built near them prepared to live with the consequences of no such infill being built?

At first, the answer is, "yes, of course! Keep building like we used to build -- SFR everywhere, and when we run out of room, just build outward."

But those same people presumably also don't want to pay more taxes. And the absolute, 100% guaranteed, no-fail result of only building on suburban/exurban greenfields is that they're going to have to pay way more taxes in the future (or accept the worsening of already-bad infrastructure and services).

So, the issue is that people like Orlikow have made a career of telling people they can keep putting purchases on their credit card and never have to pay a bill.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by neutroniks

It soothes their smooth brain conspiracy that the "Replacement Theory" is real.

I love that the people who most want super high fertility to protect their superior genes are also the biggest bunch of chuckleheads you've ever met.

[EndIt]

Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

As you have eluded to, most people do not want to see more development in their neighbourhood (or at least most people who vote in Municipal elections). The situation you have described above, where anti-development councilors get elected and more car centric sprawl gets built on the edge of the city, is unfortunately what the majority of the general public wants. So you could say Democracy is working as intended. Most of the opinions that we express on this forum are not mainstream opinions. Ultimately the opinions/wants of the general public need to change before there is any major progress towards ending car-centric suburban sprawl. It's hard to blame people like Orlikow when he is doing what most of his constituents want him to do.

I think most people don't care to involve themselves in city planning. The actual deeply NIMBY contingent is pretty small, they're just organized and engaged and anchored to their wards via their homes, so councillors are incentivized to appease them get them off their case and snag some easy, stable votes. The structure of public consultation really favours resident's associations, regardless of how representative they are of their neighbourhood's actual opinions.

[Outlandish18]

228 King Street

[WinCitySparky]

Nice thanks for the pics

[Wpg_Guy]

Transcona residents worry ‘country style’ living in jeopardy from 1,300-acre development
By Jeff Keele
Published: November 27, 2025 at 7:18PM EST

A plan described as a 21st-century model development in South Transcona has existing homeowners worried about the impact on their way of life.

Fred Hamm is one of them. He’s lived on a large, wooded swath of land that backs onto the Transcona Golf Club.

“It’s 15 minutes from Portage and Main, it’s country living, and it’s peace and quiet,” said Hamm. “It’s everything you’d want.”


But Hamm and a number of his neighbours are worried that peace and quiet could one day disappear.

“I might have to move my front steps so that they can build their proposed four-lane highway going through here,” said Hamm.

A major development plan is in the works for 1,300 acres around Dugald and Plessis Road, near the golf course.

Potential plans have been unveiled at a series of public meetings. Homeowners like Hamm have concerns they will lose property to a network of nature parks pitched for the area. They also worry new paved roads will impact their homes and create noise.


On top of this Hamm said he can’t afford to hook up to a proposed water and sewer system.

“With my 278 feet of frontage, I’ll be paying somewhere around $120,000,” he said.

Area councillor Russ Wyatt said another meeting is set for next month where new scenarios will be presented. He said they’re listening and trying to address as many of the concerns as they can.

Wyatt also said the park areas are not yet determined, and the province is looking into the water and sewer cost issue.

The city is pushing for more housing to combat a shortage, and they’re also striving to increase park space.

Proponents behind the project said this will be a “sustainable, connected community that celebrates nature and belonging.”

The development could include housing for up to 20,000 people, with single family homes, duplexes, and high-rises up to ten storeys, along with services like transit, a grocery store, bike paths and a community centre.

Still, for Hamm, this is all too much.

“Apartment blocks and high-rises, that’s going a little too far,” he said.

The next public meeting is set for Dec. 10, at Canad Inns on Regent Avenue.

CTV News Winnipeg

[FactaNV]

So greenfield mcmansions? Just what the city needs more of lol

[jim_bred]

Awesome.

Lots of room in that area to expand.

[Mr Tall Forehead]

Presumably a developer has bought a chunk of the vacant land in the area and initiated this planning process. Anyone know which developer?

[Biff]

More detailed info here

https://www.mraplanning.ca/southtranscona

[Mr Tall Forehead]

Goldstone Group and Taggert Properties Inc.

Never heard of them.

[1ajs]

theres a water skipark back there waa?

[CoryB]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

theres a water skipark back there waa?

I cannot recall for certain but it was definitely there for Pan Am Games in 1999 and may have been built for that event.

[bussche]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

theres a water skipark back there waa?

AKA Lake Shirley.

https://www.wswm.ca/contact

[Hecate]

The lake was built to prevent flooding in south transcona which was a thing yearly, its basically swampland. Terrible place to build.

[bomberjet]

Winnipeg is a terrible place to build, but here we are.

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Winnipeg is a terrible place to build, but here we are.

This is just an amateur observer's take (I'm not in the industry as either a developer, architect or tradesman). I'm sure there are hurdles to overcome, and I have no doubt there are those in the industry who would like to see the elimination of any sort of controls or oversight to make their projects more profitable. However, the fact that there are so many projects happening in the city right now, despite the barriers, would seem to suggest that "terrible" is an exaggeration.

Just my wordy opinion.