Regina Construction III - Page 231

BrutallyDishonest2 · #**4601** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 1:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Drofmab

Makes sense. Feds have been consolidating to the (federally-owned) Alvin Hamilton Building over the past two years. The building is quite full right now. Still some vacancy, but it would only take a couple additional Depts/Agencies to fill it up.

The 1st floor Scotiabank space would benefit from a federal tenant which directly serves clients - for example Passport Canada (which now reports to Service Canada... Alvin Hamilton's primary tenant).

The assumption has already been that passport would move over from Saskatchewan Place. But it all depends on the lease and budget, etc.

A4Regina · #**4602** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 2:19 PM**

Looks like Halifax is getting a full sized ikea... Maybe they eased up on the population requirements after all. It'd be nice to see one in the province. I can see a full size ikea opening up in Saskatoon with one of those smaller pick up facilities in Regina or something.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ikea-store-halifax-1.3415069

Stormer · #**4603** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 2:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by A4Regina

Looks like Halifax is getting a full sized ikea... Maybe they eased up on the population requirements after all. It'd be nice to see one in the province. I can see a full size ikea opening up in Saskatoon with one of those smaller pick up facilities in Regina or something.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ikea-store-halifax-1.3415069

Maybe I will move to Halifax after all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOkufcf9tGo

Stormer · #**4604** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 3:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by A4Regina

Looks like Halifax is getting a full sized ikea... Maybe they eased up on the population requirements after all. It'd be nice to see one in the province. I can see a full size ikea opening up in Saskatoon with one of those smaller pick up facilities in Regina or something.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ikea-store-halifax-1.3415069

I agree there is good chance although in the last official census (2011) Halifax's CMA was 390K and Saskatoon's was 260K. Saskatoon has been growing twice as fast as Halifax and has way higher disposable incomes.

jigglysquishy · #**4605** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 3:47 PM**

I think it would be in Regina's best interest to get the ball rolling for BRT. Saskatoon started the process about two years ago and could have shovels in the ground as early as spring 2017.

The economy might be slowing down, but the population growth is still quite high. We'll need it eventually might as well start planning it now.

Stormer · #**4606** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 4:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

I think it would be in Regina's best interest to get the ball rolling for BRT. Saskatoon started the process about two years ago and could have shovels in the ground as early as spring 2017.

The economy might be slowing down, but the population growth is still quite high. We'll need it eventually might as well start planning it now.

I noticed there was a Regina BRT thread in 2007!. These things move slowly. As far as I know there is nothing in the City's 5 year capital plan for BRT. Just this week when the Mayor was asked about the possibility of accelerated Federal infrastructure money, he mentioned a new bus garage but nothing else about transit.

Nathan · #**4607** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 5:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrutallyDishonest2

All I'll say is that you should expect at least one Sears retail location to disappear in 2016, if not more.

True enough... We do have 3 locations afterall.

Treesplease · #**4608** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 7:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stormer

I noticed there was a Regina BRT thread in 2007!. These things move slowly. As far as I know there is nothing in the City's 5 year capital plan for BRT. Just this week when the Mayor was asked about the possibility of accelerated Federal infrastructure money, he mentioned a new bus garage but nothing else about transit.

I would be happy even if there was a certain amount of planning that made contingencies for future rights of way needs for a future BRT system. I have no reason to believe they aren't but given the cities inability to even plan for roadway contingencies I would be very surprised if BRT contingencies are in their plans. Would love to find out I'm wrong though.

one_brick_at_a_time · #**4609** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 7:30 PM**

A downtown Ikea in the former railyard redevelopment would be awesome to connect to the warehouse district and to downtown.

SkydivePilot · #**4610** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 8:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

A downtown Ikea in the former railyard redevelopment would be awesome to connect to the warehouse district and to downtown.

Oh yeah, for sure!

I would bet that IKEA knows about that parcel of land. I wonder if the city would let them build there. (As opposed to other developments the city may have in mind.)

The old Superstore location was originally to be a hospital. Loblaws screwed up that intention.

A4Regina · #**4611** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 8:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

A downtown Ikea in the former railyard redevelopment would be awesome to connect to the warehouse district and to downtown.

It'd be great to see it open up in the core. The downside would be that most of the railyard lands would end up being the parking lot for it.

Nathan · #**4612** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 8:25 PM**

Unless they put underground parking below the whole area (somewhat like midtown parking in Saskatoon), I can't see it working at all. IKEA is usually at the edges of cities or at least by large freeways, no? They don't usually go in very urban places near cores... At least not in Canada.

Scruff Bucket · #**4613** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 11:38 PM**

Both of Vancouver's IKEA's (Coquitlam and the newly rebuilt Richmond locations) incorporate covered, ground-level parking, with much of the retail area constructed above the parking. Mind you, they also have a lot of uncovered parking, too! And, as noted above, they are located in the suburbs, and near major roads!

I like the way that a lot of the big box stores and malls (Pacific Centre, London Drugs, Canadian Tire, Best Buy, Home Depot, Winners, Whole Foods, Save-On Foods, Costco, etc.) have setup in Downtown Vancouver, providing underground/above-ground parking for their patrons! In fact, Downtown Van is littered with parkades, including plenty of public parking spaces. With a young family in-tow, driving around Downtown and Metro is our preference, and parkades/parking nearby our destinations make life much more convenient! Even if Vancouver is a very transit oriented city, there is still a number of cars on the road, including ours when we're there!

Also, note that Downtown Van serves a population upward of 150k during the business day in an area less than 3 km x 4 km (2/3 pop. of Regina's, with our city covering an area of 12 km x 12 km or so), so that much parking is quite necessary! I think Downtown Toronto may have become more densely populated than Vancouver's by now.

BrutallyDishonest2 · #**4614** Posted **Jan 23, 2016, 2:04 AM**

As much as I'd be happy to see an Ikea here, I'd hate to see a traditional model of massive parking lots in the railyards. Any other scheme to move parking under retail is never going to happen as Ikea would never spend that much in our market.

As has been previously discussed, Ikea is actively looking to put their small format here and that would work well there.

blacktrojan3921 · #**4615** Posted **Jan 23, 2016, 7:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

I think it would be in Regina's best interest to get the ball rolling for BRT. Saskatoon started the process about two years ago and could have shovels in the ground as early as spring 2017.

The economy might be slowing down, but the population growth is still quite high. We'll need it eventually might as well start planning it now.

If Regina is going for a rapid transit system (Whether it be BRT or Light-Rail, because I don't think the city wants to go for subway lol), I propose they name the system QUARTS, Or 'Queen city Urban Area Rapid Transit Services'

Draftsman · #**4616** Posted **Jan 23, 2016, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by blacktrojan3921

If Regina is going for a rapid transit system (Whether it be BRT or Light-Rail, because I don't think the city wants to go for subway lol), I propose they name the system QUARTS, Or 'Queen city Urban Area Rapid Transit Services'

Oh, I like that! Much better than Fast And Rapid Transit Service (FARTS)

SkydivePilot · #**4617** Posted **Jan 24, 2016, 6:09 PM**

This may be old news to some of you guys, but I found out this morning that the Namerind project on 11th Ave is scheduled to break ground during June of '17. There will be a privately-run grocery store in there after all.

BrutallyDishonest2 · #**4618** Posted **Jan 24, 2016, 6:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkydivePilot

This may be old news to some of you guys, but I found out this morning that the Namerind project on 11th Ave is scheduled to break ground during June of '17. There will be a privately-run grocery store in there after all.

Like Capital Pointe I'll believe when I see it.

If it does go ahead it would expect to see substantial modifications to the plan. Building the amount of office in there they originally planned is a very bad idea.

Additionally, everything I've read about their grocery store plan suggests something very small, on par with a corner store.

Mike328 · #**4619** Posted **Jan 24, 2016, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrutallyDishonest2

Like Capital Pointe I'll believe when I see it.

If it does go ahead it would expect to see substantial modifications to the plan. Building the amount of office in there they originally planned is a very bad idea.

Additionally, everything I've read about their grocery store plan suggests something very small, on par with a corner store.

The demolition seemed to take a page out of Capital Pointe's book also, as they did not take out all of the basement of the former building. Instead they just covered the remaining basement walls up with dirt which to me suggests they are not planning on building any time soon. They can't get the parking lot open fast enough at the rates they are charging.

Nathan · #**4620** Posted **Jan 25, 2016, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mike328

The demolition seemed to take a page out of Capital Pointe's book also, as they did not take out all of the basement of the former building. Instead they just covered the remaining basement walls up with dirt which to me suggests they are not planning on building any time soon. They can't get the parking lot open fast enough at the rates they are charging.

Like CP, Regardless of whether they were building now or not, they'd likely have to backfill and drive some piles in before removing the walls, otherwise they'd risk destabilising the surrounding area (Lorne Street, provincial court building behind, etc).

I did notice that unlike CP post-Plains demolition, they took out all the rebar and other junk before filling.