Winnipeg | 300 Main St.- Phase II 360 Main St. | 465 Ft | 42F | Completed

[Cyro]

300 Main St.

Looking South on Main St.

The New 300-360 Main St Site:

At Night

Images Sources: http://www.artisreit.com/360-main-building-envelope-300-main-announcement/

Impressive. Photos can can found in OP as well.

[Urban recluse]

How nice for folks living in the Exchange to walk across Portage to grab groceries at what will hopefully be a grocery store in the development; SkyCity is not too much further, but still...

[BKB]

There a sign that says MARKET between 300 and 360.

[bomberjet]

Armin said this morning there's possibility of a grocer going in. We'll see whom, if any, actually get one in their developments.

[oftheMoon]

Just a side note, we laughed at Sky City when their initial rendering showed fake background buildings. Take a look around at these renderings...

[Bovell007]

From the rendering on page 17 it looks like they have moved some stores into the lobby. I think it looks like they moved the food court up as to get more customers who walk into the lobby which now has around 600+ people walking by.

[Spocket]

Hey, look ! We're also getting mountains ! It's about time we got around to building some of those.

[esquire]

So what does everyone think of the way 300 Main looks? I think it's pretty good considering our climate and the supopsedly stringent requirements of the new energy code... plenty of glass should make for a nice looking tower. It's a fairly restrained design by Wan standards too, which is a good thing... there isn't any of what I'd consider to be excessively gaudy ornamentation.

It will be weird to see a new residential tower with balconies and all at Portage and Main... it's a new paradigm for sure.

[Urban recluse]

I think it very nice; yes, plenty of glass.

[Spocket]

Originally Posted by esquire

So what does everyone think of the way 300 Main looks? I think it's pretty good considering our climate and the supopsedly stringent requirements of the new energy code... plenty of glass should make for a nice looking tower. It's a fairly restrained design by Wan standards too, which is a good thing... there isn't any of what I'd consider to be excessively gaudy ornamentation.

It will be weird to see a new residential tower with balconies and all at Portage and Main... it's a new paradigm for sure.

I would have preferred something along the lines of One Wall Center in Vancouver but that's hardly standard for residential. Just a small hope on that one that was dashed. Otherwise, if the renderings are correct, not too big on the brown. Brown doesn't hold up well to time unless it's brick.

[Urban recluse]

I agree about the brown.

[LilZebra]

This will be an opportunity to redo / expand the Transit shelter and waiting area in front of 300 & 360 Main St.

With an increased population and an excessive amount of buses picking up and dropping off passengers at that spot, there needs to be more waiting room to wait for your bus.

The rendering shown above, sees no change in waiting shelter capacity. Not a good thing when one is waiting for a bus with others in a cramped shelter designed for a Winnipeg population of 400,000.

A size doubling of the shelter, at least, would be the minimum requirement.

The widened sidewalk area between 300 & 360 will be much welcomed, especially at PM rush hour.

PS: It's nice to have the 3000x3000 pixel images here, but for discussion purposes, how do we go about downsizing them to more manageable viewing size?

[Urban recluse]

I just found out Artis REIT does not own the Scotiabank part of the building, hence why it is not being touched. I had no idea.

[Biff]

I would like to ask that when the actual construction starts on 360 Main that we create individual threads for each project. The reclad project is very significant in its own right, construction and engineering. And here in Winnipeg we don't get too many chances to have a 40 stores tower thread.....just my suggestion.

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by The Unknown Poster

400 Apartments. Is there parking to support this?

That's what I was asking SkyCity about when it was announced.

The silly little BRT we have won't be able to handle all the extra passengers.

So what is WT's medium term plan to add capacity to their routes?

If the 55 St. Anne's is chronically undercapacity now, how will it be when more and more want on the bus?

If that portion of Main St. in front of 360 is bus after bus after bus right now, how will the buses move quicker?

Functional Transit Winnipeg guestimates we'll need upwards of 200 more diesel buses to satisfy demand.

With all these new residential projects, is it the answer to just keep adding more and more buses? At what point do you say, "OK, we acknowledge that the diesel-only system cannot be the complete answer, we'll now accept that rail can be the answer too."

I've been watching CTA mass transit videos these past few days, and you know, the CTA subway mostly above ground like the Vancouver SkyTrain. So for some people here to say let's put a monorail along Portage or down Pembina Hwy, or down Main St....
Maybe that'll be absolutely necessary now.

After all, when the Trizec project was first announced in January 1974, the plan was still to build a monorail. The BRT proponents hadn't paid for any studies until a year or two later. Trizec would have assumed some sort of rail transit to serve the project as completed.

CTA Pink Line (mostly elevate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zZlij52oc




See, that's why I've always said rail was superior to bus.

[Labroco]

Originally Posted by Urban recluse

I just found out Artis REIT does not own the Scotiabank part of the building, hence why it is not being touched. I had no idea.

Who does then? Scotia Bank themselves?

[Urban recluse]

I'm trying to find out. I hope they would be on board to have that section done.

[bomberjet]

I don't mind the new tower, but I really like the re-clad. The new tower should be as close to the other as possible, IMO. Cover it in the same glazing, with only the balconies looking different. Could have the same play on lines, incorporating the balcony, as the re-clad. Add glass railings, as they seem to be all the rage, and I think it'd be pretty sweet.

But I cant complain too much, with all this action!

[Urban recluse]

I hope we see inspiration come from all of these projects, and other building owners renovate their buildings, and show faith in the downtown; contribute to a new image of the downtown. Down the street is 272 Main, which is being converted, and I would love to see more developments south on Main. Of course, east of this we will eventually see the developments at the Forks materialize. Perhaps before long we shall see the new Earl's on Main built as per the guidelines.

[Spocket]

Originally Posted by jimj_wpg

The silly little BRT we have won't be able to handle all the extra passengers.

I find that to be a somewhat strange take on this. Of course the transit system can handle this and Skycity without any problems whatsoever. How many of these people do you think will actually be taking a bus anywhere ? Moreover, they won't all be going to the same place at the same time and even if they were we'd be able to handle that pretty easily as well.

Increasing ridership doesn't mean we're running a transit system that's at or even near full capacity. It's not a profitable system by any stretch of the imagination. While I'm completely on board with expanding BRT as soon as possible and want to see it done under virtually any pretext (because otherwise it'll never get done) this is hardly the catalyst that would necessitate such an expenditure. We'd need about another 50 tower blocks downtown to make it cost effective or to even meet capacity.