Winnipeg Construction

[newflyer]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

a jazz club would be kinda cool though

and newflyer there was a restraunt in there befor royal bank

I would love to see a nice jazz club on Portage .... I'd be all over it.

... and I remember that restaurant ... but it wasn't that good.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by newflyer

I would love to see a nice jazz club on Portage .... I'd be all over it.

... and I remember that restaurant ... but it wasn't that good.

thouse i think the met would make a better jaz club

[flatlander]

Originally Posted by trueviking

what about staples, giant tiger and dollarama? ....and warehouse one.

good point about the suit store.

i wonder how long it will take to find a tenant for the beautiful building that the royal bank is in on portage, once they move to the hydro building....

I called the owner a year ago - he took two weeks to get back to me. Not exactly motivated. I'd never heard of the company.

[sledhead35]

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/...uction_090218/20090218/?hub=WinnipegHome

The trades industry seems to be booming in Manitoba.

So much so one of Canada's largest construction company's even setting up a new sub-office here in Winnipeg.

That suites apprentice program students from Red River College just fine.

"We probably have more apprentices coming through here than anytime in the past," says Red River College-Construction Coordinator

Mike Watson.

Watson says he is seeing a boom in Manitoba's labour industry. He says up until recently, many trained professionals left the province.

"I think a lot of the graduates are staying here, and typically a lot of the people that have gone off to work in Alberta seem to be coming back," adds Watson.

Student Stephen Moore says his future in Manitoba seems bright.

"No lack of work; there's gonna be work for years and even when new constructions slow down a little there's always renovations," says Moore.

The reason for Ellis-Don moving an office into the province is simple.

"We look at the economy across Canada and we really do find that Manitoba's the place to be," says company spokesperson Darryl Fife.

Darryl fife heads up Ellis-Don Corporation's Manitoba office.

Ellis-Don has offices across Canada and around the world, but the countries second largest construction company just set up shop in Winnipeg this past November.

"I think Manitoba is doing much better than other parts of the country for sure, and I think if you're young and smart, trades is a good place to be," adds Fife.

The company's big project so far is Winnipeg's James Richardson International Airport.

Fife says Ellis-Don has several bids for construction jobs in the works and sees hundreds of jobs coming for Manitobans.

[sledhead35]

found on ctv news site.



Police converge on Canwest Building

A large number of police have converged on the Canwest Building at Portage and Main. Police have confirmed that the building is being evacuated because of a security concern.

More to come

[1ajs]

New head of Exchange BIZ undaunted

By Melissa Martin
Canstar News

Feb. 19, 2009



He’d been off the payroll for less than a year. But by fall 2008, retirement was not sitting well with Malcolm Anderson.

“I’d still wake up every morning and 5:30 a.m. and say, ‘OK, what’s today? There’s a board meeting, but that’s not until 1 p.m.,’” Anderson says from a sparse, sunny office overlooking Old Market Square. “My mind wanted to be engaged, because that’s what I was used to.”

This week, Anderson takes the reins of the Exchange District Business Improvement Zone as its new executive director. He found the job while browsing headlines on the Winnipeg Free Press website: the title popped up in a promotional box, and something clicked. “That was it,” he says of his online discovery.

The new job crowns a daunting resume: at age 63, Anderson has paid his dues. Born in Sheffield, England, Anderson moved to Winnipeg as a toddler in the wake of the Second World War. He grew up here, got married, had a pair of kids and became a chartered accountant. He loved the work.

“It gets quite challenging,” he says. “People call me Mr. Metric, because I’m always looking for metrics about what’s happening, how we’re doing. It feels quite creative.”

That zest for numbers proved marketable. Anderson served as Manitoba’s assistant deputy minister of finance until 1983, then spent three years as the City of Winnipeg’s finance commissioner. (He’s looking forward to reconnecting with old City Hall colleagues in his new job: “Some of the councillors there now were there then!” he laughs.)

After joining the private world for stints at Assante Asset Management and Credit Union Central Manitoba, Anderson became the CEO of Manitoba-based financial giant Rice Financial (now MGI Financial) in 2001, a position he held until beginning his retirement transition in 2007.

With that resume, you might assume that Anderson has no monetary incentive to take the Biz directorship. You’d be right.

“It’s not about the money,” Anderson says, shaking his head. “With this job, they’re giving me the opportunity to help build a community.”

That kind of civic commitment earned him the job.

“It says something when someone with that kind of success in his career is willing to give back to the city,” says Exchange District BIZ board president Gord Holmes. “He has a diverse knowledge of the community from a political standpoint, a cultural standpoint, a business standpoint. We couldn’t be happier.”

Neither could Anderson. Nattily dressed in a striped Ralph Lauren shirt, he amicably muses about some of the opportunities facing Winnipeg’s most historic neighbourhood. He can’t wait to analyze the area’s vacancy rates and figure out how to give better “value-added” BIZ services to area businesses, which pay a special levy to keep the organization running.

But there’s a more personal legacy he’s interested in.

“I’d love to help build a community where my kids and grandkids can stay,” he says. “There is so much excitement in this area. I said to (a visiting financial executive) once… ‘this area is going to be the area to be, but there’s still things that need to be cleaned up.’ And that’s exactly what’s happening.”

Members of the public are invited to come out and meet Anderson at t the King’s Head Pub on Monday, Feb. 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

[1ajs]

this has poped up on newwinnipeg DIN Architects

[Only The Lonely..]

Originally Posted by sledhead35

found on ctv news site.



Police converge on Canwest Building

A large number of police have converged on the Canwest Building at Portage and Main. Police have confirmed that the building is being evacuated because of a security concern.

More to come

Evacuation ends at Canwest Place

Winnipeg Free Press


Workers have returned to Canwest Place, a 33-storey building on the northwest corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street, that was evacuated over the noon hour after reports of a bomb threat.

A police spokesman said authorities were summoned to the buidling at about 10:15 a.m. by the building's owner after a threat was received at the site.

Const. Dan Ricard would not say which floor of the building received the threat, nor would he describe its contents. Police were searching the building, he said.

Only emergency personnel were left in the building, Ricard said, just before noon.

Some of the hundreds of workers who left the building said the evacuation was largely orderly and calm.

"Apparently there's a bomb threat," said Arthur Cramer, an IT specialist with Regina-based grain company Viterra, which has offices on Canwest Place's 31st floor.

Police ordered workers to leave and asked people not to gather in Canwest Place's plaza facing Fort Street.

Many building workers collected in nearby shops and on sidewalks. Some workers with an unnamed investment firm gathered around a table at a Fort Street Subway store and carried on with their work on their BlackBerries.

[Only The Lonely..]

Originally Posted by sledhead35

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/...uction_090218/20090218/?hub=WinnipegHome

The trades industry seems to be booming in Manitoba.

So much so one of Canada's largest construction company's even setting up a new sub-office here in Winnipeg.

That suites apprentice program students from Red River College just fine.

"We probably have more apprentices coming through here than anytime in the past," says Red River College-Construction Coordinator

Mike Watson.

Watson says he is seeing a boom in Manitoba's labour industry. He says up until recently, many trained professionals left the province.

"I think a lot of the graduates are staying here, and typically a lot of the people that have gone off to work in Alberta seem to be coming back," adds Watson.

Student Stephen Moore says his future in Manitoba seems bright.

"No lack of work; there's gonna be work for years and even when new constructions slow down a little there's always renovations," says Moore.

The reason for Ellis-Don moving an office into the province is simple.

"We look at the economy across Canada and we really do find that Manitoba's the place to be," says company spokesperson Darryl Fife.

Darryl fife heads up Ellis-Don Corporation's Manitoba office.

Ellis-Don has offices across Canada and around the world, but the countries second largest construction company just set up shop in Winnipeg this past November.

"I think Manitoba is doing much better than other parts of the country for sure, and I think if you're young and smart, trades is a good place to be," adds Fife.

The company's big project so far is Winnipeg's James Richardson International Airport.

Fife says Ellis-Don has several bids for construction jobs in the works and sees hundreds of jobs coming for Manitobans.

I wonder how those guys are doing on the airport?? They sure low-balled PCL when that thing went out to tender.

[sledhead35]

strange that u of w hasnt announced anything about this design?


the airport is as close to on schedule as any other project as of late. to me this is impressive for something this size, especially considering there were some design changes if i recall correctly.

[1ajs]

probly but they kepted the funky skylights

[hexrae]

Wow, perhaps that design is a leaked concept? Looks seksi to me

[1ajs]

its on there webiste... witch is where those pics come from
http://www.dinprojects.ca/

anyhow a better image of that plugin tower apears to of been some sorta case study they had done some neat concepts probly all dead though

[Indescribable]

Are those condos? That's a thin building.

[1ajs]

i think they were supost to be apartments

[nordique]

i like that gallery plopped on the roof idea.

[wags_in_the_peg]

old photos for the Army Surplus site, I remember seeing those photos when the store was still open.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

I wonder how those guys are doing on the airport?? They sure low-balled PCL when that thing went out to tender.

Ellis Don didn't low ball PCL, PCL had inflated their price. PCL apparently got what they deserved.

[1ajs]

[Archiseek]

the panels are going to look great on it...