Winnipeg | 300 Main St.- Phase II 360 Main St. | 465 Ft | 42F | Completed - Page 216

optimusREIM · #**4301** Posted **Oct 28, 2019, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by dmacc

I wonder what those two large I beams are for on the top floor. I haven't seen anything similar anywhere else.

I think they might be part of the tether for the crane. That's the only thing I can think of.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**4302** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 12:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by optimusREIM

I think they might be part of the tether for the crane. That's the only thing I can think of.

Exactly what I thought.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**4303** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 12:39 AM**

Next page;

EspionNoir · #**4304** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 1:45 AM**

Nice progress.

Not exactly a very "important" thing, but I'm thinking this will be the most or second most luxurious apartment in Winnipeg for some time? I guess TNS probably is better?

buzzg · #**4305** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 2:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by EspionNoir

Nice progress.

Not exactly a very "important" thing, but I'm thinking this will be the most or second most luxurious apartment in Winnipeg for some time? I guess TNS probably is better?

I believe they're going after mid-range, closer to 300 Assiniboine than TNS. Wouldn't be overly surprised to see 185 Smith end up being near the top, based on the amount of work to the exterior and the renders. Don't know of (m)any apartment towers here with two-storey units, other than some penthouse suites.

Wpg_Guy · #**4306** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 3:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

I believe they're going after mid-range, closer to 300 Assiniboine than TNS. Wouldn't be overly surprised to see 185 Smith end up being near the top, based on the amount of work to the exterior and the renders. Don't know of (m)any apartment towers here with two-storey units, other than some penthouse suites.

Seems to be a new trend, the pump-house development will have two storey units and the new building on Aubert might have two storey units based on the exterior balconies but i could be wrong about that one.

esquire · #**4307** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 3:14 AM**

Doesn't Le Chateau York have 2-storey suites on the upper floors? I've never been in that building but I always wondered what those large suites at the top look like.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**4308** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 3:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Seems to be a new trend, the pump-house development will have two storey units and the new building on Aubert might have two storey units based on the exterior balconies but i could be wrong about that one.

Common now in southern Ontario. I have family there living in one of these units. Feels more like being in a a house.

rrskylar · #**4309** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 3:48 AM**

Core looks like it's been at the 15-16 story range for the past three months!

Biff · #**4310** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 1:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by optimusREIM

I think they might be part of the tether for the crane. That's the only thing I can think of.

They look to large to be the crane tethers, but I could be wrong.

GrammarSlammerBammer · #**4311** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Core looks like it's been at the 15-16 story range for the past three months!

Yep, it hasn't been raised since mid-August.

rrskylar · #**4312** Posted **Oct 29, 2019, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by GrammarSlammerBammer

Yep, it hasn't been raised since mid-August.

Guess it's pretty close to being topped out after all!

Wpg_Guy · #**4313** Posted **Oct 31, 2019, 4:39 AM**

EspionNoir · #**4314** Posted **Oct 31, 2019, 6:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Guess it's pretty close to being topped out after all!

Hahahahaha

It's going to be quite some time for it to reach 42 floors I believe.

BigG · #**4315** Posted **Oct 31, 2019, 2:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

That is already a vast improvement from what it looked like before.

Bluenote · #**4316** Posted **Nov 1, 2019, 5:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by EspionNoir

Hahahahaha

It's going to be quite some time for it to reach 42 floors I believe.

Well it has taken 40 years to get this far. Another decade won't hurt lol.

I think TNS 3-4 and probably 5 will be done before this thing is.

DonaldSmith · #**4317** Posted **Nov 1, 2019, 1:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

They look to large to be the crane tethers, but I could be wrong.

I think it is being used to store structural steel and d beams.

Wolf13 · #**4318** Posted **Nov 1, 2019, 5:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wolf13

Not to whine, but does nobody listen to me on this board???

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Originally Posted by buzzg

The escalator the mall is so poorly thought out it’s crazy. Blocks the whole flow, you gotta walk around, and the bottom is reaaallyyy close to the shop entrances. They put up caution tape and watch your head signs, guess people were walking into it. Gonna have to block off some space under it which will makes it even more awkward.

You gotta think there should have been some fairly simple way to configure the main floor of 330 so the escalator could go along the flow of the mall.

And below, from the very same post as my bitching:

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Originally Posted by Wolf13

There was an original escalator base already there, so perpendicular was the only option, unless they wanted to waste money.

Building a brand new escalator pit combined with all the structural work and impact on the parkde below would have been a massive cost.

I agree, oriented the other way would flow more, but this is very far from the first place with a perpendicular escalator.

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Originally Posted by buzzg

I believe they're going after mid-range, closer to 300 Assiniboine than TNS. Wouldn't be overly surprised to see 185 Smith end up being near the top, based on the amount of work to the exterior and the renders. Don't know of (m)any apartment towers here with two-storey units, other than some penthouse suites.

No, these are definitely going for top of the market. They will have some affordable units though, the ones that TNS made the news for by not including yet getting a grant for anyway lol.

You don't build something this large and expensive and then don't make your money back.

trueviking · #**4319** Posted **Nov 1, 2019, 6:46 PM**

the new escalator in the concourse for this development is pretty bizarre. It runs completely across the path of travel for the mall....and now they've roped it off I guess because people were hitting their heads. It creates a pretty good pinch point in the mall.

cheswick · #**4320** Posted **Nov 1, 2019, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

the new escalator in the concourse for this development is pretty bizarre. It runs completely across the path of travel for the mall....and now they've roped it off I guess because people were hitting their heads. It creates a pretty good pinch point in the mall.

That's bizarre. They should have orientated it the other way. Why would they do that?