Regina Construction II

[Konstruct6187]

http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Regin...ted+signature+project/5752152/story.html

Construction has begun.

[Azraeyl]

I was walking by the Centre Square Place site this morning on my way to work. At the time they had a large shovel and bobcat moving the storage container. I only live a couple of blocks away from the 15th and Montreal condo project and it was impressive it seemed one day only a foundation and the next a building is up. I find it interesting the use of modular construction on multi family dwellings in Regina. I think there are bylaws restricting modular single dwelling structures, which is too bad there are some beautiful modern ones out there that have a lot more visual appeal than most of the new housing being built now.

[A4Regina]

Originally Posted by Konstruct6187

http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Regin...ted+signature+project/5752152/story.html

Construction has begun.

Great news! From the looks of it, it seems that they have decided to change the materials that are going into the building. Looks much better than before.

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[wacko]

I wish Centre Square Place had chosen a different name. I keep mixing it up with City Square Plaza.

[Nathan]

Not a big fan of the permanent red icicles or the orange at the bottom... But overall it looks really nice. You can see the difference to the other condo projects. This one just quietly moves ahead while the others are trying to use "groundbreakings" to try and drum up more interest.

[Dillweed]

Originally Posted by thefourthtower

Regina building permits blow by half-a-billion-dollar mark

Regina leader post

The City of Regina has now issued $505,769,369 worth of building permits so far this year.

Photograph by: Bryan Schlosser, Regina Leader-Post files


REGINA — It’s official. Regina has broken the half-a-billion-dollar mark for building permits for the first time in the city’s 108-year-old history.

As of Nov. 17, the City of Regina had issued $505,769,369 worth of building permits this year, far ahead of $391,773,072 in permits issued for the same period last year. The former record high of $458 million, set in 2009, was broken in October.

“It’s a financial benchmark for building activity in the city,’’ said Garry Wasyliw, building division manager for the city’s building standards branch, who predicted earlier this year the city would set another record and exceed the $500-million mark in 2011.

A permit issued to PCL Construction to construct a $3.9-million sales and service building for Bennett-Dunlop Ford Ltd. at 770 Broad St. helped push the permits over the $500-million mark.

That’s just one of a number of large building permits that have been issued this year, including the Hill Centre Tower III project by Harvard Developments, which was issued a building permit for $47.8 million — said to be the largest single permit ever issued by the city.

Other large permits include $25.8 million for a dormitory building at the RCMP Training Academy at 6101 Dewdney Ave., $16.1 million for a new school at 635 E Douglas Ave. in Douglas Park and $15.5 million for the new Arcola Community School at 2315 Abbott Rd.

This year continues the trend of consecutive record-setting years for building permits that began about 10 years ago.

Starting at $140 million in 2002, Regina set eight consecutive records for permits — $215 million in 2003, $218 million in 2004, $241 million in 2005, $276 million in 2006, $337 million in 2007, $342 million in 2008, and $458 million in 2009. The $426 million in permits issued in 2010 was the second-highest total on record.

© Copyright (c) The Regina Leader-Post


Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/Regina+buildin...ar+mark/5746128/story.html#ixzz1eOIWTXgh

Wow that is impressive for a city of roughly 200,000. Ok I'm not looking to start a war between Saskatoon & Regina. Not taking anything away from Regina but look at these figures from Statscan which incidentally are only up to September which doesn't reflect Regina going over the $500,000,000 mark.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/64-001-x/2011009/t012-eng.htm

But as of September Saskatoon with $823,000,000 in building permits for the year. Which I would guess should see over $900,000,000 maybe close to $1 billion by years end.

Either this is testimony of how much Saskatchewan is booming or Vancouver is slowing down. Probably a little of both in my opinion. I now that commercial construction is down quite sharply in Vancouver this year by over 30%.

So the last census figures I saw for the GVRD had a population of 2.2 million. And correct me if I'm wrong Regina with roughly 200,000 & Saskatoon around 270,000.

So to place that within context, if Regina & Saskatoon were the same size as Vancouver. Would have building permits valued at $5.5 billion & $6.7 billion respectively. And Vancouver standing around $4.2 billion.

Interesting!

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by blacktrojan3921

Don't you mean CKCK? But it is good to hear on Centre Square Place

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[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Dillweed

Wow that is impressive for a city of roughly 200,000. Ok I'm not looking to start a war between Saskatoon & Regina. Not taking anything away from Regina but look at these figures from Statscan which incidentally are only up to September which doesn't reflect Regina going over the $500,000,000 mark.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/64-001-x/2011009/t012-eng.htm

But as of September Saskatoon with $823,000,000 in building permits for the year. Which I would guess should see over $900,000,000 maybe close to $1 billion by years end.

Either this is testimony of how much Saskatchewan is booming or Vancouver is slowing down. Probably a little of both in my opinion. I now that commercial construction is down quite sharply in Vancouver this year by over 30%.

So the last census figures I saw for the GVRD had a population of 2.2 million. And correct me if I'm wrong Regina with roughly 200,000 & Saskatoon around 270,000.

So to place that within context, if Regina & Saskatoon were the same size as Vancouver. Would have building permits valued at $5.5 billion & $6.7 billion respectively. And Vancouver standing around $4.2 billion.

Interesting!

I suspect a large part is because of the university. Over the last while the u of s (being the provincial uni) has received quite a bit more funding for projects including I think 300 million for a kinesiology/health sciences building. There is also the children's hospital being created (I'm not sure where that project is at at the present time). So if institutional spending is included in those figures that will be a part of the reason.

As for Regina's pop. The cma has around 220k now I think.

[thefourthtower]

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[macblaze]

Originally Posted by Nathan

I suspect a large part is because of the university. Over the last while the u of s (being the provincial uni) has received quite a bit more funding for projects including I think 300 million for a kinesiology/health sciences building. There is also the children's hospital being created (I'm not sure where that project is at at the present time). So if institutional spending is included in those figures that will be a part of the reason.

As for Regina's pop. The cma has around 220k now I think.

215 000 as of 2011 but since Regina growing by about 5000 or so a year we should be at the 220 000 mark by now

[UrbanClimate]

Here's a clip from Global News about the building permit boom in Regina.
Includes some good shots of major construction projects underway in the city.

http://www.globalregina.com/video/building+permit+boom/video.html?v=2170020328&p=1&s=dd#video

[Chadillaccc]

That is so awesome! I wonder what Regina's municipal population is at now? Probably 230 000 I'm guessing?

If this growth keeps up, you guys might be creep up to nearly 300 000 in the metro by the 2016 census! Exciting times for Canada all-round

[Chadillaccc]

oh shit... didn't realize that the population numbers had just been posted in the previous page!

Well my optimism still stands! 290 - 300 000 in the metro by 2016!



EDIT:

I just projected that if Regina has a 5% population growth rate per year for the next five years (I think the average for the previous five years was 4 percent), assuming that the current population is 215 - 220 000, that by 2016 the population will be 268 - 275 000 people. So I could make a guess that the metropolitan population, if this growth level does remain constant, will almost definitely surpass the 300 000 mark by 2016.

[macblaze]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

oh shit... didn't realize that the population numbers had just been posted in the previous page!

Well my optimism still stands! 290 - 300 000 in the metro by 2016!



EDIT:

I just projected that if Regina has a 5% population growth rate per year for the next five years (I think the average for the previous five years was 4 percent), assuming that the current population is 215 - 220 000, that by 2016 the population will be 268 - 275 000 people. So I could make a guess that the metropolitan population, if this growth level does remain constant, will almost definitely surpass the 300 000 mark by 2016.

. Lol I think Saskatoon as a better chance hitting that number by 2016 but you never know maybe we start bring in 10000 to 15000 but those are some high number chance are that won't happen but I do like your attitude

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by Nathan

I suspect a large part is because of the university. Over the last while the u of s (being the provincial uni) has received quite a bit more funding for projects including I think 300 million for a kinesiology/health sciences building. There is also the children's hospital being created (I'm not sure where that project is at at the present time). So if institutional spending is included in those figures that will be a part of the reason.

As for Regina's pop. The cma has around 220k now I think.

The U of S would have some impact but by far the greatest impact is the greater number of housing starts every year in Saskatoon. 2800 starts per year adds up to a lot of construction. Regina can only dream of numbers like that.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by UrbanClimate

Here's a clip from Global News about the building permit boom in Regina.
Includes some good shots of major construction projects underway in the city.

http://www.globalregina.com/video/building+permit+boom/video.html?v=2170020328&p=1&s=dd#video

Someone was asking a few pages back how they attach the glass curtain wall to the concrete structure at Mosaic Tower. This video clearly shows it being done.

[thefourthtower]

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[jigglysquishy]

Using the 2010 growth rate (last year available)

2011 - 219,905
2012 - 224,818
2013 - 229,840
2014 - 234,975
2015 - 240,224
2016 - 245,591
2017 - 251,077
2018 - 256,686
2019 - 262,421
2020 - 268,283
2021 - 274,276
2022 - 280,404
2023 - 286,668
2024 - 293,072
2025 - 299,619

I would venture a bet we will grow faster than the above rate as I think our 2011 numbers will show a higher growth rate

[micheal]

Originally Posted by Stormer

The U of S would have some impact but by far the greatest impact is the greater number of housing starts every year in Saskatoon. 2800 starts per year adds up to a lot of construction. Regina can only dream of numbers like that.

I think if everything goes well with the GTH you will see much more significant house starts and pop. growth in the regina area.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by micheal

I think if everything goes well with the GTH you will see much more significant house starts and pop. growth in the regina area.

It is defintitely accellerating:

Housing starts rebounded by 45 per cent from 930 in 2009 to 1,350 in 2010, and another 12 per cent increase to 1,500 is expected this year..

Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Regina+lead+cities+growth/5655084/story.html#ixzz1eY1DCh00