Winnipeg Construction IX - Page 419

dennis · #**8361** Posted **Oct 20, 2018, 2:48 AM**

I also like the sign above the doorway.

Ando · #**8362** Posted **Oct 20, 2018, 4:39 PM**

That’s why we are so lucky in Winnipeg to have heritage buildings.

LilZebra · #**8363** Posted **Oct 20, 2018, 10:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jack1983

Vector Construction has been there all summer rehabbing the parkade. I guess they want to take care of the one thing that is currently bringing in some positive cash flow for them.

I have heard True North thinks there will be a parking crunch in the area as TNS fills up. So i expect this parkade to be one of the more lucrative parts of that development.

Where are all the BRT boosters now?

Wolf13 · #**8364** Posted **Oct 22, 2018, 9:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by LilZebra

Where are all the BRT boosters now?

Well, BRT is borne out of necessity... Whether a lack of parking, or cost, well it's fine if it gets used. I'd be more upset if the parkades at TNS and other major downtown projects are unused... THEN BRT would be a waste.

CoryB · #**8365** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 4:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jack1983

I have heard True North thinks there will be a parking crunch in the area as TNS fills up. So i expect this parkade to be one of the more lucrative parts of that development.

Take a surface parking lot running around 70% (or higher) capacity. Close it an build to ~20 story buildings on it place. Include less parking than your new tenants are likely to use. Yup, easy to see how there could be a parking crunch.

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The story I heard is when Hydro Place was being built in had included more underground parking in the original plan. With existing buildings on the site at the time core sampling was not possible. When actual construction started they would geological issues (high water table?) that required the included parking to be greatly reduced. Hydro then responded by signing a deal for the basement of CityPlace so it could be changed into parking (accessed via the loading dock off St Marys) for Hydro employees. That ruffled the MPI feathers as they had been leasing the space (likely on the cheap) for storage. Not long after MPI purchased the building and related surface lots.

Parking costs in all of downtown also spiked up significantly due to the increase in demand. And in response to the hike in parking costs transit too went through what had been until then relatively unprecedented fair increases.

The one perhaps upside of True North Square is that it is not really bringing new people downtown like Hydro Place did but rather shuffling around chairs that are already downtown.

esquire · #**8366** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 4:34 PM**

^ I park in the Cityplace parkade, and the daily rate went from $9.50 to $13.00 the week after the TNS office tower opened. 37% price hike overnight. I'm sure the P&M parkades won't be cutting their prices either after TDS, MNP and Scotiabank leave the area.

cheswick · #**8367** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 5:15 PM**

I still don’t understand people’s logic in regards to a parking crunch. Parking rates are easily changed to equate demand to supply. If there’s a parking crunch then raise the rates, the crunch is gone.

buzzg · #**8368** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 8:07 PM**

This is all just an argument for improving transit service.

wardlow · #**8369** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 9:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ I park in the Cityplace parkade, and the daily rate went from $9.50 to $13.00 the week after the TNS office tower opened. 37% price hike overnight. I'm sure the P&M parkades won't be cutting their prices either after TDS, MNP and Scotiabank leave the area.

Wow. My twenty-minute walk home from my downtown office is going to be extra sunny today.

drew · #**8370** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 9:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by wardlow

Wow. My twenty-minute walk home from my downtown office is going to be extra sunny today.

No doubt.

My 23 minute walk from downtown to my house always makes me smile. It easily makes up for some of the quarks of owning an older house.

I just cannot understand why more people aren't doing it... or at least open to the idea.

Wigglez · #**8371** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 11:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

No doubt.

My 23 minute walk from downtown to my house always makes me smile. It easily makes up for some of the quarks of owning an older house.

I just cannot understand why more people aren't doing it... or at least open to the idea.

check out the P&M thread for a general vibe of how some people feel about walking in this city...

drew · #**8372** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 2:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Wigglez

check out the P&M thread for a general vibe of how some people feel about walking in this city...

I check it out all the time. I am too elitist to bother posting there anymore.

buzzg · #**8373** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 2:20 AM**

I just hired someone moving back here with his wife from Toronto. Our office in on Main in the Exchange, first day he parked at The Forks and walked – it was extremely windy. I asked why he parked so far and how much he paid... his answer: "that's about the bare minimum you'd have to walk anywhere in Toronto, and parking was 10% of the price."

It's all perspective. People here thinking walking one block downtown is out of control.

Tacheguy · #**8374** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 2:50 AM**

I love stories about people moving back after leaving Winnipeg. did it myself years ago.

buzzg · #**8375** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 2:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tacheguy

I love stories about people moving back after leaving Winnipeg. did it myself years ago.

They're starting to happen a lot more these days...

His wife is from Toronto and didn't want to move at first. Then when they got a beautiful big, renovated house in River Heights for less than their 700 sqft condo in Toronto, it was easy.

Wpg_Guy · #**8376** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 3:01 AM**

Wow there is still a lot of work yet to be done inside!

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The Fortune Block (@thefortuneblock) on Instagram: “Beautiful sunrise over the @cmhr_mcdp seen from the soon to be completed rooftop patio

The Fortune Block (@thefortuneblock) on Instagram: “Sneak peak from the corner suite. Paint and millwork coming soon

The Fortune Block (@thefortuneblock) on Instagram: “The new cornice is one of our favourite parts of the restoration so far! Preserving, restoring, and replicating exact details of the original architecture is what drives our project. By studying a remaining unsalvageable piece, as well as archived images, we were able to produce this impressive cornice that is nearly identical to the original structure from 1882.

BigG · #**8377** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 1:20 PM**

Beautiful. Thanks.

Ando · #**8378** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 1:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

i check it out all the time. I am too elitist to bother posting there anymore.

lol!

Biff · #**8379** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 1:40 PM**

The Fortune Block is magnificent.

Think of how close we were to loosing it to a potential new hotel that, although would have been great, can easily go across the street or any other surface lot in downtown.

Bravo Mr Pollard.

Urban recluse · #**8380** Posted **Oct 24, 2018, 2:13 PM**

TO think of how much money he is spending, wow!