Winnipeg Construction VIII

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by esquire

Really? That building looks so ramshackle it's hard to believe it can be redeveloped... or is there a brick structure underneath what appears to be some sort of plywood-covered facade?

its a post and beam brick building

[1ajs]

some nice led strip lights in that
also from walking by looks like all the lightin inside it is led





also some sorta new restraunt opening on donald they had a liqure licence aplication in the window as well

[Simplicity]

Originally Posted by Tacheguy

Nice to see you back Simplicity. Wonder if you saw the Free Press article on the redevelopment of the Galpern building, and what your take is on it?

Thanks!

Yeah, I saw the article this morning and I got a good chuckle. I know the building well. I was through it on numerous occasions with different clients and nobody could make it work. A client of mine had an accepted offer on it at one point but it collapsed under due diligence. The vendor wanted too much money and the building was a shambles so everybody eventually passed on it.

I think it's great that somebody is trying to get something out of it, but those rents are both ambitious and not enough, so I'm not sure what their plan is. Murray MacNeill is pretending that being your own general is some panacea nobody has ever thought of, but this isn't even remotely uncommon anymore.

We'll see. There are a couple guys in this city who thought heritage restoration was easy money with less competition only to find out people haven't overlooked it, they've just migrated away from it. It only takes one unforeseen issue and I have yet to see a heritage project that doesn't experience one.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

its a post and beam brick building

That's interesting... it'll be nice to see those elements get uncovered as this project takes shape.

[1ajs]

i used to shop there for ballet shoes

[wags_in_the_peg]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

some nice led strip lights in that
also from walking by looks like all the lightin inside it is led

it'll look great when all lite up. i do worry that the bottom strip is about knee height, which means boarders will be riding it or perhaps a bench for the panhandlers.

[rypinion]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

i do worry that the bottom strip is about knee height, which means boarders will be riding it or perhaps a bench for the panhandlers.

So you're saying there's actually hope for Hargrave to still have a people presence?

[esquire]

As far as parkades go, the Centrepoint one does not look half bad.

[cheswick]

Apartment conversion of the Galpern/Porter Building:


Century-old candy factory in Exchange District set to finally become housing
Commercial Real EstateBy: Murray McNeill

A Victoria developer has set out to accomplish what several other developers were unable to do -- convert a century-old former candy factory in the East Exchange District into a residential complex.

Alston Properties has already gutted the 109-year-old Galpern Building at 165 McDermot Ave., and is poised to begin converting the six-storey heritage building into 30 one-bedroom rental apartments and four two-bedroom townhouse units.

Full story: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/sweet--deal-295572041.html?cx_navSource=d-popular-views

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by cheswick

Apartment conversion of the Galpern/Porter Building:


Century-old candy factory in Exchange District set to finally become housing
Commercial Real EstateBy: Murray McNeill

A Victoria developer has set out to accomplish what several other developers were unable to do -- convert a century-old former candy factory in the East Exchange District into a residential complex.

Alston Properties has already gutted the 109-year-old Galpern Building at 165 McDermot Ave., and is poised to begin converting the six-storey heritage building into 30 one-bedroom rental apartments and four two-bedroom townhouse units.

Full story: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/sweet--deal-295572041.html?cx_navSource=d-popular-views

Great rehab project.
Being discussed already in the Winnipeg's Exchange District thread.

[rrskylar]

Our daily news story on another screw-up in Incompetent city:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/h...-295867671.html?cx_navSource=d-top-story

[bomberjet]

^ From what I can gather from my sources, this one is on the Cities end. Consultants did what they were told, from what I hear anecdotal. We'll see once the project is complete if any lawsuits will come against the consultant.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/O...ct-295918381.html?cx_navSource=d-tiles-2

On another City project, Plessis underpass. Again from my sources. The contractor is having, what I would consider major, issues which are causing delays. This one's on the contractors end. Cost over-runs I'm not sure of. Again we'll see if lawsuits come out of it if the Feds cancel their funding of $25M.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

^ From what I can gather from my sources, this one is on the Cities end. Consultants did what they were told, from what I hear anecdotal. We'll see once the project is complete if any lawsuits will come against the consultant.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/O...ct-295918381.html?cx_navSource=d-tiles-2

On another City project, Plessis underpass. Again from my sources. The contractor is having, what I would consider major, issues which are causing delays. This one's on the contractors end. Cost over-runs I'm not sure of. Again we'll see if lawsuits come out of it if the Feds cancel their funding of $25M.

You and I both know there will be lawsuits!

Oh wait there's more, this time with Browaty mad at the province for the AT connection over/now under the north perimeter.

http://www.browaty.com/PressReleaseAttac...al+Board+Hearing+Update&utm_medium=email

[esquire]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

You and I both know there will be lawsuits!

Oh wait there's more, this time with Browaty mad at the province for the AT connection over/now under the north perimeter.

http://www.browaty.com/PressReleaseAttac...al+Board+Hearing+Update&utm_medium=email

Let me get this straight: MIT now wants to tunnel under PTH 101 to allow Raleigh to connect East St Paul and North Kildonan? LOLWUT

Is this just some kind of hare-brained way of letting ESP greenlight a Wal-Mart at 101/59 since they can't use city streets to access the site?

[bomberjet]

I think there might be some confusion on the tunnel thing. It's more of an overpass and wouldn't cost 10's of millions. The Perimeter would be raised up over top of the AT/emergency access. Not dug down under the Perimeter. This was shown at the latest open house in 2014. Either way there is a structure going over or under the perimeter. But not a tunnel. Unless they've completely changed the plan again!

On the 2-way vehicular traffic thing. Really the CoW has no say as ESP has land inside the Perimeter. So none of this is on City land. Common sense says yeah this will be a headache for City roads in the area. IMO as a person, it provides better access. IMO as a CoW taxpayer, no to 2-way traffic! Browaty can threaten to barricade the roads again if he wants to.

But I'm waiting for the January 2015 open house, come on already! It is MMM group, who are currently working on the Marion Widening (which has an overdue open house as well, early 2015) and the William Clement Parkway study. So they're pretty busy folks at the moment.

[bomberjet]

That's for the through-pass, which is what I believe Browaty was talking about.

The original budget for the AT overpass was supposed to be ~$15M. If ESP kicks in the ~$3M for the vehicle access (like it said in those e-mails), that would cover some of the extra costs.

[esquire]

^ Interesting. But what's the point? The City can easily block access to it from its end... so all that's left is a very indirect stub of a road leading to the little island of land between Winnipeg city limits and the Perimeter.

[bomberjet]

Yeah, exactly. I'm sure it'll be in the press again fairly soon.

I think it just raises questions again on the whole Gateway/Raleigh corridor. Long term it is a major transportation corridor, with BRT eventually coming in there. It's the only local connection between ESP and CoW (save for Rothesay Street, which aligns with a couple churches so likely won't be connected). So maybe there needs to be some type of agreements made at this point in time about cost sharing (CoW/ESP/Province) on upgrading of the corridor into Elmwood/Downtown. Or figure out something.

Common sense again, it would be silly to spend $15-$20M on this overpass to have it dead end a block south. Would be better to not allow 2-way traffic as opposed to disrupting people in the area for some silly reason.

[CoryB]

Just curious what type of "emergency vehicle access" would be included in that plan. There is quite a variety in size of vehicles which match that description. It would also be important to ask if it is intended for ESP to access their lands inside the COW or for flow the other way around. If COW vehicles are heading to ESP is there a services agreement in place? With the Pipeline Rd house fire on Monday it came out WSP does not have a services agreement in place with the COW meaning even when extra support is needed calling COW is not an option.

[bomberjet]

I think it's mostly for ESP fire and police access to their lands, from outside to inside the Perimeter. Like you said, also for going the other way. Ambulance service to/from Winnipeg Hospitals could use that route.