Winnipeg Construction VIII - Page 345

CoryB · #**6881** Posted **Aug 24, 2015, 9:11 PM**

Anyone know what is happening at 289 Garry St? It looks like a major styling upgrade if nothing else. The door intercom system hints it could be residential units on the upper floors too.

esquire · #**6882** Posted **Aug 24, 2015, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by CoryB

Anyone know what is happening at 289 Garry St? It looks like a major styling upgrade if nothing else. The door intercom system hints it could be residential units on the upper floors too.

Appears to be a design firm in there, so I guess they have to make it look nice if they want to impress potential clients (what a concept).

http://www.nadidesign.com/289-garry-...et1wwicqtnmmaf

Pretty swanky!

CoryB · #**6883** Posted **Aug 24, 2015, 9:28 PM**

Interestingly the design firm is listed as being on the third floor. It is also interesting their site has a video for Bridgewater Centre which has a lot of mixed use four story buildings. I wonder if there is a serious plan to build out the concept as presented in that video.

buzzg · #**6884** Posted **Aug 25, 2015, 2:31 AM**

Garry there could become not too bad of a little strip (compared to 2 years ago especially) if the owners of The Pint open even just one of the "several concepts" they wanted to eventually bring there.

emeraldeyes · #**6885** Posted **Aug 27, 2015, 1:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

Garry there could become not too bad of a little strip (compared to 2 years ago especially) if the owners of The Pint open even just one of the "several concepts" they wanted to eventually bring there.

Can you elaborate on these concepts? I can't recall what was discussed.

rypinion · #**6886** Posted **Aug 27, 2015, 2:28 PM**

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Can you elaborate on these concepts? I can't recall what was discussed.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...288230161.html

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"We've already looked at (doing) another acquisition very quickly... within the downtown area. We typically like to do what we call mini-clusters, so we'd love to do some other projects close to where we've set up shop on Garry Street," he explained.

CoryB · #**6887** Posted **Aug 27, 2015, 3:48 PM**

Hit up The Pint website and look at the sister properties on the bottom on the page for an idea what they might be looking at on Garry.

1ajs · #**6888** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 2:34 AM**

hearing grumblings that a bunch of the exchange is about to have the city finaly come crashing down on it for building code violations they have been letting slide for the last 40 yrs...

LilZebra · #**6889** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 8:20 AM**

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Hit up The Pint website and look at the sister properties on the bottom on the page for an idea what they might be looking at on Garry.

Whoever their hosting site is, it's very sloooow to load the pages.

Also some of the RMs pages are also slow, but I'm assuming they're on a WIMAX type connection.

buzzg · #**6890** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:43 PM**

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hearing grumblings that a bunch of the exchange is about to have the city finaly come crashing down on it for building code violations they have been letting slide for the last 40 yrs...

Seems reasonable. Now Janice Lukes will be able to tackle the rooming house "crisis" in her ward too....

cheswick · #**6891** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 5:41 PM**

They added some LED lighting strips on Graham outside the MTS Centre. Sorry for the crappy picture, snapped it quickly from the bus

buzzg · #**6892** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 7:25 PM**

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They added some LED lighting strips on Graham outside the MTS Centre. Sorry for the crappy picture, snapped it quickly from the bus

Yeah there's holes that come through to the pedestrian side too to tunnel light, it should look pretty cool at night.

It's really unfortunate though, I was walking down Graham yesterday and noticed there actually would be a decent amount of space to put a bike lane in if they would move all the street furniture and lights/poles all to the back of the sidewalk/property line. Now if they ever wanna put one in, they have to rip part or all of these walls out. (The "part" would be the planter/benches).

Graham is my #1 candidate for downtown streets that NEED a bike lane, it would really help the "pedestrian mall" experience out. It's one thing for diamond lanes to be for busses/bikes, it's even worse for this street as there isn't even 2 feet of space for busses to move over and pass a cyclist.

Riverman · #**6893** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 7:33 PM**

A bicycle would be much faster than a bus on Graham. Besides, if a bike path was built, bikes would still ride on the road. See Disraeli.

buzzg · #**6894** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 7:37 PM**

I'm curious on peoples' thoughts about that^ — what if Graham were to become ped and bike only, and move busses to Portage or St. Mary, or maybe have one way on each? The transit mall is a good idea, but the busses don't really move that fast on it in rush hour anyway.

1ajs · #**6895** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 7:49 PM**

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Seems reasonable. Now Janice Lukes will be able to tackle the rooming house "crisis" in her ward too....

City should Inspec them all and make a list and go to the whole area u got x years to work o. This if we do t see any work starting by x date we will start it and put it o. Ur tax bill end of story

emeraldeyes · #**6896** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 8:36 PM**

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A bicycle would be much faster than a bus on Graham. Besides, if a bike path was built, bikes would still ride on the road. See Disraeli.

Respectfully, it is my experience that even with bike lanes, they are still on the sidewalk. See Disraeli. And even Sherbrook with that new beautiful protected bike lane.

Riverman · #**6897** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 9:19 PM**

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Respectfully, it is my experience that even with bike lanes, they are still on the sidewalk. See Disraeli. And even Sherbrook with that new beautiful protected bike lane.

That too.

Keh Vaughn · #**6898** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 9:31 PM**

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Respectfully, it is my experience that even with bike lanes, they are still on the sidewalk. See Disraeli. And even Sherbrook with that new beautiful protected bike lane.

Disraeli is a lovely path that suits the needs of just about no one. If you're headed south down Henderson, can either keep going with traffic, or stop, cut across all six lanes of the road and then some, double back a bit down Midwinter and then get on the AT bridge, which will only take you halfway across anyway, with no way of getting back to the southbound lanes, so you're forced to either take the sidewalk or bike against traffic. It was really poorly conceived.

Sherbrook I can't really speak to; I've never noticed cyclists on the sidewalk, but I also can't recall if the protected bike lane is for one or two way traffic. If its a one-way like it is for vehicles, I imagine that cyclists probably take the sidewalk to go south without heading up to Maryland. I'm guilty of doing this occasionally on River if I need to go east, just purely out of convenience. This kind of speaks to how un-friendly one-way streets can often in a neighbourhood (something TV has talked a bit about in the past).

Graham seems like it would be a really great candidate for supporting cyclists, as long as they can avoid the weirdness of something like Disraeli or Sherbrook.

bomberjet · #**6899** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 9:40 PM**

The City is looking at connectivity of the Disraeli AT path to the Raleigh/Gateway path. And connectivity in general. But it is rather cumbersome to get on the bridge no doubt.

The design in general at the north end of Disraeli isn't the greatest. Ever try merging onto Henderson from either Talbot or Midwinter during rush hour? I seen one guy banging his head on the steering wheel the other day haha

Riverman · #**6900** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 10:23 PM**

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The design in general at the north end of Disraeli isn't the greatest. Ever try merging onto Henderson from either Talbot or Midwinter during rush hour? I seen one guy banging his head on the steering wheel the other day haha

It is the worst roadway design in the history of the universe. It is a 100 times worse that is was before. And there was LOTS of room to make a merge lane. Lots.