The Official Moncton, NB Project Thread

[mylesmalley]

Originally Posted by MPSE

just a couple of points...
1) not sure if this is ettique or not but it — when you attach the "quote" to your post just creates more wasted space

Probably not necessary in most situations, but it can make it a lot easier to see who/what someone is addressing specifically if you directly quote it. You're right, it's wasted space, but bandwidth is cheap

Originally Posted by MPSE

2) is there not a page for pictures only?

There are a couple, depending on the theme. Stu_pendousmatt2 does a great job, along with others.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=161175

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=160757

Originally Posted by MPSE

3) if it's in the paper is really neccessary to cut and paste the enite article in your post???

No, not at all. But in my opinion, it significantly increases the likelyhood that people will actually read or make note of them. Plus (personally) I find it makes the page flow better, because you can read continuously, without having to jump back and forth between web pages.

Originally Posted by MPSE

4) is the courthouse moving?? nothing is happening

There were some announcements a few weeks ago. about 5 pages back, there are renderings. It's going at the corner of Assumption where Beaver Lumber used to be.

EDIT:
Gerhart posted this scan from the T&T:

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by MPSE

just a couple of points...
1) not sure if this is ettique or not but it — when you attach the "quote" to your post just creates more wasted space
2) is there not a page for pictures only?
3) if it's in the paper is really neccessary to cut and paste the enite article in your post???

4) is the courthouse moving?? nothing is happening

(1) - If you attach the quote to your reply, it just clarifies what exactly it is that you are replying to.
(2) - Yes there is/are pages for pictures but I am of the school of thought that pictures add colour to the main Moncton page and help to give visitors to our thread a bit of insight as to what our community is really like.
(3) - I think it is useful to paste relevant articles into the thread. Again, not all people who visit the thread are from Moncton and therefore do not necessarily read the T&T (or whatever). I think it can just help tie things together.

Regards.

[mmmatt]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

(1) - If you attach the quote to your reply, it just clarifies what exactly it is that you are replying to.
(2) - Yes there is are pages for pictures but I am of the school of thought that pictures add colour to the main Moncton page and help to give visitors to our thread a bit of insite as to what our community is really like.
(3) - I think it is useful to paste relevant articles into the thread. Again, not all people who visit the thread are from Moncton and therefore do not necessarily read the T&T (or whatever). I think it can just help tie things together.

Regards.

Agreed

[Dmajackson]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

(1) - If you attach the quote to your reply, it just clarifies what exactly it is that you are replying to.
(2) - Yes there is are pages for pictures but I am of the school of thought that pictures add colour to the main Moncton page and help to give visitors to our thread a bit of insite as to what our community is really like.
(3) - I think it is useful to paste relevant articles into the thread. Again, not all people who visit the thread are from Moncton and therefore do not necessarily read the T&T (or whatever). I think it can just help tie things together.

Regards.

Agreed also.

I'm one of those people who visit/post here but not from Moncton. Its really nice to have stuff directly on the page to read. To be honest if its a link I won't bother reading it usually. And well I'm not the type to flip through the online newspapers when I can get the intersting facts right here.

IMO the only spot you should not quote all the time is if you are referrring to the post previous to yours and the quoted message is short. Since you can view the message and the responce in one view its much easier to use either the ^ or symbols to tell people you are responding to the last post.

[MonctonRad]

I see that they are busy doing renovations to the former downtown Burger King location on Main Street, does anyone know what is going in there?

Personally, I've always thought that would be an ideal location for a downtown Starbuck's. It's just next door to the Blue Cross Centre, across the street from city hall and only a block away from both the Delta Beausejour and Marriott hotels. There would be an awful lot of coffee drinkers in the immediate neighbourhood.

[mylesmalley]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I see that they are busy doing renovations to the former downtown Burger King location on Main Street, does anyone know what is going in there?

Personally, I've always thought that would be an ideal location for a downtown Starbuck's. It's just next door to the Blue Cross Centre, across the street from city hall and only a block away from both the Delta Beausejour and Marriott hotels. There would be an awful lot of coffee drinkers in the immediate neighbourhood.

it's also got what has to be the world's shortest drive thru...

[mmmatt]

Originally Posted by mylesmalley

it's also got what has to be the world's shortest drive thru...

Not any more haha, they just took out the drive thru last week, its a regular window now.

[mylesmalley]

Originally Posted by stu_pendousmat2

Not any more haha, they just took out the drive thru last week, its a regular window now.

I hope they do something with that land then...park or patio or something. I'd sooner see a disused drive thru street than a random patch of grass in the middle of downtown.

[JimiThing]

Speaking of Downtown, Did anyone try Pink Sushi, It has got to be the best sushi I have ever had. I can see them moving to another location. Every time I've went so far, it was packed. They could always add another, somewhere around Mapleton.

Anyways Props for awesome tasting food.

[JasonL-Moncton]

I heard on the weekend that 'The Sony Store' in Champlain is leaving the mall and moving to Trinity in the new year.

Jason

[mylesmalley]

As much as I despise that mall (I hate all malls with a passion), the refurbishment at Champlain Place does make the place look a lot more classy. It's such a popular place for tourists around Christmas time, it's nice to know that we're putting our best foot forward.

On a completely unrelated note. Has there been any word on the new condos supposed to go up along Main Street? Seemed like it was a big deal, until the courthouse was announced.

[JasonL-Moncton]

Also...I just read in the paper that it 'is' ALLSCO that is going into the old Chrysler Building (75,000 sq ft) on St. George Blvd.

Jason

[MonctonRad]

There is some interesting activity going on at the Mapleton Power Centre site. They are using the same preformed concrete building techniques to erect the walls for the buildings there that they used for the new Lawton's pharmacy. The walls for building #1 went up in a single day.

[C_Boy]

Originally Posted by JasonL-Moncton

Also...I just read in the paper that it 'is' ALLSCO that is going into the old Chrysler Building (75,000 sq ft) on St. George Blvd.

Jason

This could actualy be bigger news than we think. The Allsco owner also owns all the barracks and other buildings on what was part of the old base on John st. (Next to that nicely renovated building at 210 John). Right now those buildings are used for storage of windows and doors.

Beeing so close to the core, I think this may be a good spot for some high density residential. You have the YMCA next door, other sport amenities, Sobeys, Mountain rd not far away, Victoria park and the technology park etc...

I included a pic just to show the size of the area.



What do you guys think?

[MonctonRad]

I'm not sure this means anything for the old base property or not. Apparently, it is the Allsco showroom and display centre on Rideout in the MID park that is moving to the Chrysler warehouse.

It would be nice to see some further activity on the old army base. That may not be in the cards right now.

Are you privy to any inside information?

[MonctonRad]

ALLSCO moves showroom to new location
Published Wednesday December 3rd, 2008

Company set to move into former Chrysler parts distribution centre

A thriving Moncton business is making a big move.

ALLSCO Windows, Doors and Siding is moving its showroom, sales department and siding division to the former Chrysler LLC parts distribution centre at 615 St. George Blvd.

"This is an exciting time in ALLSCO's history," company president Gordon Lahanky said in a statement. "This major step is a long term investment in ALLSCO's future and is a significant strategic step towards growing our business and advancing ALLSCO's service level."

Gordon feels this transition will create many new opportunities for the company and the ALLSCO team.

"This 75,000 square foot, prominent building will certainly boost ALLSCO's exposure and give rise to many new opportunities as we advance the business."

The former Chrysler building is 75,000 square feet in size, which the company says will make it Atlantic Canada's largest vinyl window, door and siding store.

The company also hopes that their move will help rejuvenate the St. George Boulevard area, which has seen the loss of several key businesses over the last five years.

ALLSCO will be conducting a complete renovation of the facility, which they hope will be complete by February of next year. The renovations will include building a new showroom.

The Chrysler LLC parts distribution centre (formerly Daimler Chrysler Canada Inc.) closed Nov. 30.

In a statement several months ago, senior manager of corporate communication for Chrysler Canada Mary Gauthier said the closure was done in order to "remain globally competitive."

The Chrysler facility was the last of four industry facilities to leave St. George Boulevard, as Goodyear, General Motors and Firestone have all formerly had operations centres in the area.

Since its inception in 1976, ALLSCO has been a leader in the window, door and siding industry in Atlantic Canada.

In addition to their new location, ALLSCO has two other locations in Moncton; its head office and manufacturing plant at 70 Rideout St. and the factory discount outlet on 194 Barker St.

The company also has a sales office in Dartmouth, N.S., and one in Winslow, Maine.

[mylesmalley]

What happened to the hotel that was proposed for that area?

[David_99]

Originally Posted by mylesmalley

What happened to the hotel that was proposed for that area?

I've heard so many plans for that area over the years yet nothing has come of any of them. Even back in 2000-01, I was teaching at a local college, I remember my boss meeting with Claudette Bradshaw proposing a "Multimedia Community" in that area, refurbishing the old buildings. He had this big vision of having a bunch of the smaller graphic companies moving there, bidding for international projects, having a school where the students would work on real world projects from those companies. Even having a music school and store etc etc. Although many of Moncton's smaller graphics companies folded around the same time. So many that we even had to discontinue providing internships. So that one kinda fell through. Anyway, long story short, any other rumours that came out of that area never seemed to get of the ground.

Slightly off topic, but he also had plans for a school across from ALC that never happened either. Does that building have a name? The one between Graffitti and Personal Search on Main? Anyway, it's in rough shape. We went upstairs to check out a vacancy. The floor was wobbly and walls paper thin. Candy Cameleon moved from there and HER closed down. Does anyone know if there's any plans from that building?

[C_Boy]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I'm not sure this means anything for the old base property or not. Apparently, it is the Allsco showroom and display centre on Rideout in the MID park that is moving to the Chrysler warehouse.

It would be nice to see some further activity on the old army base. That may not be in the cards right now.

Are you privy to any inside information?

No I'm not but it would seem to make sense. Making a such a big investment like is beeing done may want to look at an option of revenue. I mean they will need windows and doors if they do build something there . But the article is a little confusing... ok they are moving the store there but says that the head office is on Rideout etc... So are they keeping all three ? If so, I would doubt they would keep those old barracks for storage??

It will be interesting to see what happens. I work at the nice building at 210 John st. They are always working on that area. Behind the building and in front of the buildings that are still used on the base. There are also always trucks at the barracks working as well. Does anyone know anything else?

And for the hotel I was not aware of anything but a mixture of high density residential and hotel would be good. Beeing close to downtown, technology park etc... good place for business people to stay.

[mmmatt]

Building permits strong

Published Thursday December 4th, 2008
T&T

A new five-unit retail plaza at 1579 Mountain Rd. and the next phase of work at Rocky Stone field led the way for the City of Moncton to post just over $7 million in building permits in November.

Other significant projects include renovations to the McDonald's restaurant on Ensley Drive and the interior fit up of the new Shoppers Drug Mart on Vaughan Harvey Boulevard. As well, Memco Controls will begin work on a new building on Frenette Avenue in Caledonia Industrial Estates.

The November figures are down sharply from the same period last year when there was $14 million in construction.

However, the number of permits issued November to November were virtually identical.

Meanwhile, the year-to-date total value of permits is $113,284,861, down about $15 million from this time last year.