Winnipeg Construction VIII - Page 382

esquire · #**7621** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 4:21 PM**

^ It's basically the residential equivalent of a suburban strip mall. At least it's still somewhat kind-of urban in that it's not the more typical pitched roof and stucco set in a sea of parking that you typically see around there.

Riverman · #**7622** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 4:59 PM**

Was that not a repurposed hotel? Or was the hotel torn down?

CoryB · #**7623** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 5:01 PM**

Manitoba Clinic is underway. There is a crawler crane on site and they have started work on the parkade expansion (more floors).

esquire · #**7624** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Was that not a repurposed hotel? Or was the hotel torn down?

They demolished the Montcalm... this is a new build.

esquire · #**7625** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 5:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by CoryB

Manitoba Clinic is underway. There is a crawler crane on site and they have started work on the parkade expansion (more floors).

Good news. This will be an appropriate building to mark the SE corner of the HSC campus... even if it isn't a showstopper, at least it's something substantial.

Cyro · #**7626** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 6:44 PM**

Good news in the last 24/hrs., activity at both the MB clinic site and TN Square, test drilling in the latter case but moving forward never the less.

buzzg · #**7627** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 7:09 PM**

I don't mind MOCO at all, but I do wish they would've put the parking in the back, kinda strange even from a security standpoint that they didn't. I think it's a good fit.. the finishes keep costs down but it's a nice pop of colour from the balconies, no complaints on this one for me really.

CoryB · #**7628** Posted **Nov 19, 2015, 8:16 PM**

The MB Clinic has been underway for a while actually even beyond the demolition of the old gas station, I just have forgotten to post.

rrskylar · #**7629** Posted **Nov 20, 2015, 6:50 PM**

So what's up with the work stoppage on the flying saucer condo's or UFO launching pad condo near Disraeli, out of money? structural issues?

Cyro · #**7630** Posted **Nov 20, 2015, 6:54 PM**

^ >>>> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=7236016&postcount=7573 ?

Riverman · #**7631** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 12:56 AM**

At the corner of Dufferin and Salter sits a boarded up former church, IIRC it was a Korean United church. Presently another building is being is being built on top of the old church with a huge staircase to the ground. No work appears to be going on with the building on the bottom.

Ando · #**7632** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 1:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

At the corner of Dufferin and Salter sits a boarded up former church, IIRC it was a Korean United church. Presently another building is being is being built on top of the old church with a huge staircase to the ground. No work appears to be going on with the building on the bottom.

Stairway to heaven?

esquire · #**7633** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 1:37 AM**

Was the Manitoba Korean Presbyterian Church until recently... now it's becoming a Buddhist Temple. It's quite a sight coming off the Slaw Rebchuk Bridge...

Riverman · #**7634** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 1:52 AM**

Kind of an odd location? Must have got the old building for a song. It was vacant for a long time.

The Jabroni · #**7635** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 2:16 AM**

How long has that church been sitting empty?

Conrad · #**7636** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 4:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

It's nice to see more density in that area but there is just something so visually lacking about that complex... just way too horizontal.

Luxury condos? It looks like social housing. Those funky-coloured balconies could never disguise this dog's breakfast.

esquire · #**7637** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 5:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by The Jabroni

How long has that church been sitting empty?

Couldn't have been that long... maybe a year?

1ajs · #**7638** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 7:28 AM**

was a daycare for a number of years as well

but yea that project is quite somthing els could count as an intresting engineering project if u look how they built it

Riverman · #**7639** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 2:04 PM**

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Couldn't have been that long... maybe a year?

About 20 years I think.

esquire · #**7640** Posted **Nov 21, 2015, 2:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

About 20 years I think.

Not that long, but it was longer than I thought, though... I looked at Google Street View and in 2009 the church was still located there, but by 2012 the sign was down. So vacant for at least a few years until construction got under way earlier this year.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.9115631,-...5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1