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Old Posted Feb 18, 2016, 1:27 PM
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Congratulations, TV. With new blood, perhaps there is hope for CV. Please work vigorously to ensure no more substandard projects such as H2O, 530 Waterfront, or the messes on Main Street are accepted. That ridiculous smile on Angela's face as she looked at renderings for 98 Market still makes me cringe. The downtown deserves better.

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Old Posted Feb 18, 2016, 1:59 PM
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Congrats TV! Next step - mayor.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 21, 2016, 5:18 PM
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Ooooohhh....can't wait True North Sports and Entertainment has scheduled a Tuesday press conference to announce further details about the $400-million mixed-use development, hope our clueless provincial govt. and the dunce Selinger doesn't get suckered into pumping a ton of money into it or happy Bowman who is proving as competent a mayor as Joseph Hazelwood was at captaining a ship!
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 21, 2016, 5:37 PM
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Congrats TV, can your first order of business be convincing SkyCity to build their parkade somewhere else, I dunno, ACROSS GARRY, and find a developer to redevelop the St Regis into a boutique hotel?
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 21, 2016, 6:30 PM
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Ooooohhh....can't wait True North Sports and Entertainment has scheduled a Tuesday press conference to announce further details about the $400-million mixed-use development, hope our clueless provincial govt. and the dunce Selinger doesn't get suckered into pumping a ton of money into it or happy Bowman who is proving as competent a mayor as Joseph Hazelwood was at captaining a ship!
Pumping money into it. Some times I wonder how this city ever gets anything built with everyone against it. Chipman has invested more into this city then anyone I know has in the last 16 years.

So by way of tax breaks. That's what you have to do to get business to invest here. But Chipman is still investing his own money that would be the $400 plus million. It's not like that Staduim that tax payers paid for.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 21, 2016, 6:33 PM
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Congrats TV, can your first order of business be convincing SkyCity to build their parkade somewhere else, I dunno, ACROSS GARRY, and find a developer to redevelop the St Regis into a boutique hotel?
They should just build a parkade on top of Winnipeg square. It would add to the underground parkades elegance lol

And it's not like it would be any worse to pedestrian traffic then what's there.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 21, 2016, 8:28 PM
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Old Posted Feb 21, 2016, 9:37 PM
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I'd be into that exact look. It'll help bridge The Forks to downtown with 'greenspace.'
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2016, 5:25 AM
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sky city would make a pretty good addition to this view actually...perfectly placed just to the right of the CMHR.

should be able to see two of the true north square buildings to the right of hydro....i think its tallest building will be almost completely blocked by it though.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2016, 2:15 PM
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That's a very interesting picture. The latter must have been taken prior to 1979? Maybe much earlier?
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2016, 2:33 PM
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In the bottom picture you can see Lakeview Square under construction (tower cranes far right) which was built in 1973-74.
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2016, 3:15 PM
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Ooooohhh....can't wait True North Sports and Entertainment has scheduled a Tuesday press conference to announce further details about the $400-million mixed-use development, hope our clueless provincial govt. and the dunce Selinger doesn't get suckered into pumping a ton of money into it or happy Bowman who is proving as competent a mayor as Joseph Hazelwood was at captaining a ship!
Any announcement of provincial government support has happened already as there is a moratorium on any announcements in the 90 day period prior to an election.
     
     
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True North Square NEWS ALERT! Well known Winnipeg law firm to be anchor tenant at True North Square. Thompson Dorfman Sweatman to be lead tenant in office tower, moving from Portage & Main.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2016, 5:30 AM
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Winnipeg law firm to be anchor tenant at True North Square
By: Bartley Kives


Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP plans to move from Portage and Main into True North Square, the $400-million mixed-use project planned for the south side of Graham Avenue.

The 129-year-old law firm, one of Winnipeg’s largest, is slated to become an anchor tenant in a three-building complex True North Developments plans for a pair of vacant lots on either side of Carlton Street.

Later this week, True North is expected to unveil more details of its plan, which includes the construction of a 19-storey office-and-retail tower on a former Manitoba Public Insurance-owned surface-parking lot at 225 Carlton St., a 28-storey hotel-and-residential tower on the same parcel of land and a nine-storey office building at the former Carlton Inn site to the west, at 220 Carlton St. All three structures are expected to be connected by skywalks, creating another weather-protected link between cityplace and RBC Convention Centre.

Last week, Sutton Place was identified as the hotel brand that will occupy 21 floors of the hotel-residential tower and fulfil the RBC Convention Centre’s need for more nearby rooms. True North spokesman Scott Brown said he would not comment on the Thompson Dorfman Sweatman tenancy, though for weeks, sources have identified “one of the city’s largest law firms” an an anchor tenant in True North Square’s office tower.

Artcle Source http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/369734591111.html

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Old Posted Feb 23, 2016, 8:27 PM
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^ Hey Bakguy. If posters choose to quote article sources verbatim, your going to have to have to add the link to the news source, headline etc. Did the post above as an example. Thanks
     
     
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Taking a guess here but bakquy might be the source behind the Firewalled Press article.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 24, 2016, 2:17 AM
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Taking a guess here but bakquy might be the source behind the Firewalled Press article.
His name make sense, if you think about it.
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Old Posted Feb 24, 2016, 3:05 PM
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Yes, there has been some discussion about it.

I guess I'd give this promise a so-so grade given that it's semi-recycled... it was promised last time around too with only marginal impact... only the WCC and now TNS have swallowed up large surface parking lots downtown since the last provincial election. I suppose you could say that MLLC will soon develop a smaller one on Graham.

The only real "news" is that Selinger promises to put more provincially owned parking lots into play for development.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 24, 2016, 3:13 PM
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Especially loved the comments section, glad to know that everyone else is in agreement really that this is a non-election issue for everyone except Selinger and a tiny minority who would benefit from the development. Loved one of the comments stating that the abundance of parking was a positive to building the MTS Centre downtown.
     
     
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