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Originally Posted by BAKGUY
Plus, Mr Asper made a pitch for a 41 floor Manitoba Hydro Tower on the still empty parking lot we know as 416 Main street Imagine how hot that corner would be now?
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Mr. Asper when he was one of the major investors in CanWest Capital they owned the Monarch Life Insurance on Broadway (current WCB building/parking lot) and other land in the area. In his biography he said he wanted to redevelop the Monarch site and other area buildings into a world class development.
Unfortunately his partners in CanWest wanted to sell out their shares to others a nice profit and deprived Asper of his dream of upgrading that part of Winnipeg.
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