Winnipeg Construction IX - Page 164

Urban recluse · #**3261** Posted **May 22, 2017, 1:32 AM**

I would love the building being restored to this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]

cllew · #**3262** Posted **May 22, 2017, 5:46 PM**

Was on Mc Phillips yesterday and see that the exterior renovations have finally started on the Garden City Plaza at 2211 Mc Phillips.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**3263** Posted **May 22, 2017, 10:16 PM**

Speaking of McPhillips I was there during rush hour on Friday. Diamond lane from Jarvis to Inkster, completely empty, no buses no bicycles. All the traffic pushed into the other two lanes and barely moving. Ridiculous.

cheswick · #**3264** Posted **May 23, 2017, 12:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Speaking of McPhillips I was there during rush hour on Friday. Diamond lane from Jarvis to Inkster, completely empty, no buses no bicycles. All the traffic pushed into the other two lanes and barely moving. Ridiculous.

Considering you didn't see a single bus from the 5 routes that go by there drive by, you couldn't have been waiting very long then. And yeah that's the point of a diamond lane. If it was filled with traffic it would defeat the purpose.

Urban recluse · #**3265** Posted **May 23, 2017, 1:34 AM**

We're calling for proposals to develop 265 Princess St. Be part of this up and coming dtwn neighbourhood

http://www.centreventure.com/uploads/9/7/2/3/97235084/265_princess_rfp_may_19_2017.pdf

CoryB · #**3266** Posted **May 23, 2017, 3:45 PM**

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Six storey, 135 room Hyatt House hotel proposed for 700 Sterling Lyon Parkway. Perhaps someone whispered that a water park is coming to the area

Actually, it's not a bad location for a hotel.

Any chance of them leaving room for a Lowe's at ground level

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Originally Posted by cheswick

Considering you didn't see a single bus from the 5 routes that go by there drive by, you couldn't have been waiting very long then. And yeah that's the point of a diamond lane. If it was filled with traffic it would defeat the purpose.

Considering most of the routes that use those diamonds lane of McPhillips run at 20 minute intervals, and bunched at those intervals too, it isn't overly surprising that they didn't see a bus. Worse, the northwest portion of Winnipeg continues to grow at a rapid rate with no new roads being built. The McPhillips diamond lanes were a bad idea when they were introduced approximately 10 years ago and are even worse now. Even before the diamond lanes the buses rarely got caught up in traffic.

Tacheguy · #**3267** Posted **May 23, 2017, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

We're calling for proposals to develop 265 Princess St. Be part of this up and coming dtwn neighbourhood

http://www.centreventure.com/uploads/9/7/2/3/97235084/265_princess_rfp_may_19_2017.pdf

it will be interesting to see the level of interest in this proposal. my bet is that it will be substantial.

esquire · #**3268** Posted **May 23, 2017, 6:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tacheguy

it will be interesting to see the level of interest in this proposal. my bet is that it will be substantial.

Proximity to homeless shelters could make it a tough sell for anything other than institutional/non-profits, other such non-bottom line driven uses.

Urban recluse · #**3269** Posted **May 23, 2017, 7:18 PM**

A housing Co-op would be great.

Authentic_City · #**3270** Posted **May 23, 2017, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

We're calling for proposals to develop 265 Princess St. Be part of this up and coming dtwn neighbourhood

http://www.centreventure.com/uploads/9/7/2/3/97235084/265_princess_rfp_may_19_2017.pdf

Did Centreventure just start marketing this property now? The old bldg (including Ham and Eggs Grill) was demolished some time ago (for what reason, I don't know) and the property has been vacant for several years since.

Also nearby at Main and Logan, Royal Traders is closing down after 31 years in business. For the record, this is a reputable secondhand music store, not a sleazy pawnshop. Spoke with the owner on the weekend and he seems to feel like his landlord is pushing him out by raising the rent and doing nothing to maintain the bldg. Perhaps landlord is hoping that the building and adjacent surface lots will be part of some govt orchestrated development?

In time, the entire Logan strip from Main to Princess could be government offices and coop housing.

Urban recluse · #**3271** Posted **May 23, 2017, 7:50 PM**

Plenty of spaces downtown in which the store could reopen.

biguc · #**3272** Posted **May 23, 2017, 7:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Did Centreventure just start marketing this property now? The old bldg (including Ham and Eggs Grill) was demolished some time ago (for what reason, I don't know) and the property has been vacant for several years since.

I was going to bring that up too. It's always bothered me that they mysteriously tore that block down. Typical Centre Venture.

Authentic_City · #**3273** Posted **May 23, 2017, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

Plenty of spaces downtown in which the store could reopen.

Not downtown. This is a business with slim margins and it has worked in its current location because of relatively low rent and because it has its own parking lot. Spaces like that don't exist downtown. Also, he is not up for a big move. He will liquidate and close up. Then there will be a vacant building, or perhaps an expanded parking lot.

Authentic_City · #**3274** Posted **May 23, 2017, 8:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by biguc

I was going to bring that up too. It's always bothered me that they mysteriously tore that block down. Typical Centre Venture.

Yeah, that was a sort of bait and switch. We were told the demolition of Ham and Eggs was to make way for new coop housing, but that was built across the street on already vacant land. That was circa 2011.

borkborkbork · #**3275** Posted **May 24, 2017, 2:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Yeah, that was a sort of bait and switch. We were told the demolition of Ham and Eggs was to make way for new coop housing, but that was built across the street on already vacant land. That was circa 2011.

West End Dumplings has an interesting profile on the location:

http://westenddumplings.blogspot.ca/2011/02/history-of-271-273-princess-meades.html

Apparently they tore it down so they could use it as a staging site (as if the neighbourhood were so dense and vibrant they couldn't possibly find a parking lot somewhere else to stage construction....

Urban recluse · #**3276** Posted **May 24, 2017, 2:30 PM**

I wish we would see more suburban companies move to the area. Companies in other cities are doing this more and more to cater to younger workers who want to be downtown, and to help revitalize downtowns. It is sad that so many business leaders in Winnipeg won't follow...

bomberjet · #**3277** Posted **May 24, 2017, 4:00 PM**

One of the problems with suburban companies is, like was mentioned, management has no will to move downtown. When companies are looking at relocation, most times they'll move to another location that is convenient for older workers and management. If you're in the suburbs, most likely they'll be staying there.

Most of said people live in the suburbs close to where they currently work. So they will be against having to drive or bus downtown. The old company I worked for had exactly that happen. Moved from one surburban location just a few minute drive down to another suburban location. Imagine is the ~150 staff were plopped down at P&M for example. Man it would be great.

My fiancés old work place moved from within the City to a location outside of the City. Go figure. She no longer works there as bus service is not available and desires to be downtown for many reasons.

esquire · #**3278** Posted **May 24, 2017, 4:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

One of the problems with suburban companies is, like was mentioned, management has no will to move downtown. When companies are looking at relocation, most times they'll move to another location that is convenient for older workers and management. If you're in the suburbs, most likely they'll be staying there.

What I find interesting is that whenever you hear of a new company or office popping up, more often than not it seems to be in the south side of the city. That seems to be where the city's managerial/entrepreneurial classes are concentrated. I guess you could say they always were, but the city has become more stratified over the last 30 years... at one time you would have seen more successful upper middle class professionals and business owners living in all corners of the city, in random places like West Kildonan or Westwood. These days, they are mostly packed into in the SW or SE corners of the city. Not surprisingly, that's where they're setting up their businesses.

Seems that most of the industrial/office sector growth in the northern half of the city is stuff that focuses on more blue collar type jobs, sort of your trucking, construction, logistics, that kind of thing. Not too many engineering or financial companies are opening up these days in places like Inkster Industrial Park... it's hard to imagine a scenario like the Winnipeg Free Press selecting that locale in this day and age as they did when they moved there from downtown back in 1991.

bomberjet · #**3279** Posted **May 24, 2017, 4:09 PM**

^ That's exactly it. That's where management lives. Generational thing I guess. I'm looking for a new place to live over the next few years. It'll be an infill type thing, hopefully near/on the river or a nice park setting. Not in suburbia that's for sure. To each their own.

Wolf13 · #**3280** Posted **May 24, 2017, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

One of the problems with suburban companies is, like was mentioned, management has no will to move downtown. When companies are looking at relocation, most times they'll move to another location that is convenient for older workers and management. If you're in the suburbs, most likely they'll be staying there.

Most of said people live in the suburbs close to where they currently work. So they will be against having to drive or bus downtown. The old company I worked for had exactly that happen. Moved from one surburban location just a few minute drive down to another suburban location. Imagine is the ~150 staff were plopped down at P&M for example. Man it would be great.

My fiancés old work place moved from within the City to a location outside of the City. Go figure. She no longer works there as bus service is not available and desires to be downtown for many reasons.

If I didn't work downtown, and thus get to be downtown all the time, I'd have left this city a long time ago. I can't imagine how bored people are to want to work even further into suburbia...

Our downtown is a major work in progress but if there's anything to do or to experience within or just after a day's work, it's here.