Regina Construction III

[scotty c]

Originally Posted by wacko

So the hotel is in fact being rebuilt? Good to know. I think we sorely need a hotel on the northwest side. Closest hotel I can think of to that side of town is the Best Western Seven Oaks.

Depending on traffic, the hotel in Lumsden may be closer if you based distance on the official Saskatchewan unit of measurement, time.

[sask1982]

Has anyone been to 2010 yet in Tower 3?

I see Tower 2 main level windows (where bank was) are all covered in and PCL has a sign up. This suggests construction is starting soon in there on the new eatery.

[BrutallyDishonest]

Originally Posted by wacko

So the hotel is in fact being rebuilt? Good to know. I think we sorely need a hotel on the northwest side. Closest hotel I can think of to that side of town is the Best Western Seven Oaks.

The hotel is a completely different development from the stuff above it. Presumably the hotel will resume when the insurance is finalized.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by sask1982

Has anyone been to 2010 yet in Tower 3?

I see Tower 2 main level windows (where bank was) are all covered in and PCL has a sign up. This suggests construction is starting soon in there on the new eatery.

Yes it is great. Very upscale and urban.

[Treesplease]

Originally Posted by Stormer

The massive apartment complex on University Park Dr. Is finally U/C. It is a massive project. A real beehive of activity.

Where on University Park Drive is this going? The empty lot immediately behind, south of factory optical? Roughly 540 university park drive?

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by Treesplease

Where on University Park Drive is this going? The empty lot immediately behind, south of factory optical? Roughly 540 university park drive?

Yes Gardiner Park at 510 University Park Dr. between Quance Street and East Arens Road.

It is 220 units, so potentially over 500 people living there.

[Robag]

Originally Posted by Stormer

City Council will tonight consider a proposal to rezone the land on Armour Rd. just north of the hotel that burned last winter and just south of the abandoned Quonset on Pasqua N., for a grocery store.

Also the City will finally be closing the grid of streets north of Harbour Landing and south of YQR. They were surveyed in 1912 and never developed.

I recall seeing a map of Regina in the 70's that actually had those streets laid out on the map. They used the same name's as the streets north of Dewdney, like Campbell, Walker, Grace, Horace, and so on.

[Festivus]

Where are these streets? All I can see on Google Earth are fields.

[Le-TanK-]

Originally Posted by BrutallyDishonest

Yes. The city has effectively prevented it from proceeding for 2 years. The reason they gave completely misleading but yes. But don't fret for Dundee/Dream. They had Harbour Landing 2.0 and The Towns South approved.

Thank you for the info, but why was it delayed?

[North_Regina_Boy]

Originally Posted by Festivus

Where are these streets? All I can see on Google Earth are fields.

They are there there in survey plans only. Not constructed.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by Festivus

Where are these streets? All I can see on Google Earth are fields.

Follow link and click on Appendix A-1 on the right

http://regina.siretechnologies.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=743&doctype=agenda&itemid=9686

[BrannyMuffin]

Originally Posted by scotty c

Depending on traffic, the hotel in Lumsden may be closer if you based distance on the official Saskatchewan unit of measurement, time.

Hahaha. I had friends visiting from Saskatoon one weekend and they were stopping somewhere else on the way. The directions they got began "get off the Ring Road at Albert St and drive for about 5 minutes then turn right...." The best part is they didn't even realize those directions weren't very helpful until they got lost! Probably would have been ok if not for a red light.

[hoeding]

Originally Posted by Stormer

Follow link and click on Appendix A-1 on the right

http://regina.siretechnologies.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=743&doctype=agenda&itemid=9686

I would like to thank you for bringing to my attention this resource, I just spent the last couple hours looking through various planning committee documents.

[Treesplease]

Originally Posted by scotty c

Depending on traffic, the hotel in Lumsden may be closer if you based distance on the official Saskatchewan unit of measurement, time.

Just had my hair cut this morning and the guy asks me, "take off about a months worth?" I knew what he meant and said, yes.

Someone should write to www.convert-me.com and ask that they upgrade their site to add the Saskatchewan measurement system to the metric, US customary, and British Imperial conversion tables already in place.

[BrutallyDishonest]

Originally Posted by Le-TanK-

Thank you for the info, but why was it delayed?

Coopertown was not included in the 235,000 population plan. Therefore it was not considered necessary. The city claims they want to delay developments because the infrastructure costs the city too much. However, that conveniently ignores that the developers pay all of the infrastructure costs.

Basically the city doesn't want it yet. It will approve it in a couple years when they can get away with charging more to the developer.

[jigglysquishy]

Originally Posted by BrutallyDishonest

Coopertown was not included in the 235,000 population plan. Therefore it was not considered necessary. The city claims they want to delay developments because the infrastructure costs the city too much. However, that conveniently ignores that the developers pay all of the infrastructure costs.

Basically the city doesn't want it yet. It will approve it in a couple years when they can get away with charging more to the developer.

The developers don't pay all the infrastructure cost. The city pays to get it up to the borders of the development.

So it's a significantly smaller cost, but it is a cost that the city incurs.

[Chorduroy]

Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

The developers don't pay all the infrastructure cost. The city pays to get it up to the borders of the development.

So it's a significantly smaller cost, but it is a cost that the city incurs.

And the developer merely passes any costs on to the buyer. I don't think they should ever complain about that aspect of their expenses.

[StealthGirl]

Portions of the first tower crane have arrived at the new stadium site.

https://twitter.com/YQRstadium/status/502452818327113729/photo/1

[GregCB]

Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

The developers don't pay all the infrastructure cost. The city pays to get it up to the borders of the development.

So it's a significantly smaller cost, but it is a cost that the city incurs.

Plus the city is then expected to provide transit service, garbage pick-up, snow removal and other street maintenance, police and fire services, then there's community rec centres, parks, libraries, schools that inevitably get added into the mix at some point. Not to mention the instant deterioration that starts to happen to the new infrastructure once its installed due to the challenging soil and climate conditions here. That's a city responsibility and existing tax rates do not cover that massive multi-billion dollar cost.

[wacko]

One thing I would hope the city would consider before approving any new development on that northwest side is interaction with 9th Ave N. I would hope for no further at-grade access points. Or at the very least, sufficient land should be set aside for an overpass to be constructed in due time. The goal should be to eventually make 9th Ave N an extension of Ring Road to the west bypass.

Actually I think I would like to contact the city and make my opinions known. Can someone suggest how I can best do that?