Proposal to save the Eatons Building...could we see something similar for The Bay
1916 proposal for a second Eatons building
Original render for Edgewood Estates expansion in North Kildonan (Whellams Lane)
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"But a city can be smothered by too much reverence for its past. The skyline must keep acquiring new peaks, because the day we consider it complete and untouchable is the day the city begins to die." - Justin Davidson - May 2010 Issue of New York
The SkyDome was never great for baseball, and horrible for football. Even the lowly Argos would relocate to the much smaller BMO Field.
To be fair to both the Argos and Rogers Centre (aka Skydome) the facility was required to change out the turf and the only viable options for keeping the Jays as tenants was incompatible with also being home to the CFL. This resulted in Rogers Center effectively giving the Argos an eviction notice. While the Argos have a year or more of advanced notice there was a time that they were effectively homeless when they lost access to Rogers Centre. It definitely wasn't team management waking up one day and deciding the BMO field would be a better place to play.
There was a proposal in the mid 70's to build a complex as big or bigger than Lakeview Square @ Ellice Ave where the 2 former NRC amethyst buildings are. I recall and office tower, hotel and a couple of apartment towers It was published in a Winnipeg magazine in 1976? I recall my grandfather showing it to me as a young child. It was a name like Centennial Square or Centennial gardens ?? It was to mark Winnipeg centennial but never went forward.
Here it is. I wonder what happened to this ambitious proposal?
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Also there was a proposal for a 31 floor apartment where Manulife building is & the church @ Broadway & Kennedy. I wish posters would have the courtesy to NAME what these proposals were & where they were to be places? Thanks
This one is pretty interesting, the news stories from the time mention that the congregation was eager to build this development after the old church burned down due to arson. There were even pictures of workers building parts that would become the foundation for the new development, etc. But then it never went ahead... all they built on the site was a modest church, and I'm not sure if the Manulife Building was part of the site or not?
It looks like the building went through a couple of design iterations.
Can anyone figure out what block(s) this would have been? Ellice is on the left, what street is the foreground? The area around Portage Place? Edmonton, Kennedy?
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Here it is. I wonder what happened to this ambitious proposal?
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"But a city can be smothered by too much reverence for its past. The skyline must keep acquiring new peaks, because the day we consider it complete and untouchable is the day the city begins to die." - Justin Davidson - May 2010 Issue of New York
Can anyone figure out what block(s) this would have been? Ellice is on the left, what street is the foreground? The area around Portage Place? Edmonton, Kennedy?
Looks to me like Ellice is in the immediate foreground and you can see Vaughan at the lower left? In other words, it's looking north, no? In other words, it's on the same site as the NRC Building.
Re: the hotel at Edmonton and St Mary. I think that a building there would make a big impact, regardless of size. It would be a great addition. Shame that nothing has ever been built there.
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Re: the hotel at Edmonton and St Mary. I think that a building there would make a big impact, regardless of size. It would be a great addition. Shame that nothing has ever been built there.
Lakeview was promoting it for quite a while in the early/mid 2000s when little else was happening downtown in terms of new construction, so it was pretty exciting. But then Lakeview built a hotel out by the airport terminal instead and nothing was really said publicly ever since about the St. Mary site. I agree, it would have been a great project and really could have helped to fill out that area west of the Convention Centre a bit.
Looks to me like Ellice is in the immediate foreground and you can see Vaughan at the lower left? In other words, it's looking north, no? In other words, it's on the same site as the NRC Building.
Yes, that was how I identified it in my question as to if a drawing or render existed. Ellice, Kennedy, I believe QU'appelle & Balmoral...That would have brought some life, much needed investment & great things to that forlorn part of downtown.
That location is just east of Deer Lodge Centre on Portage.
Too bad about the MLLC HQ loss, that would have been a nice shot in the arm for downtown even with the lame Hydro copycat front lawn along Graham.
I guess the silver lining is that the building got redeveloped anyway and there is still potential for the proper redevelopment of the parking lot at Graham and Kennedy.
holy crap that was 15yrs ago and i photographed it on my bike ride threw winnipeg series damn crazy lookng through that stuff and seeing how dead wpg was back then
long before rrc was in the picture the city had i think looked at moving its planing department and adding on if i recall
vicount gort hotel expansion
forget what this is for
cier old light house mision building proposal died when the city pulled a stunt requiring a new roof to be installed befor anywork on this could start that would be ripped out during construction was crazy they inforce by laws on this but let others get away
522 river
old market square
rrc paterson global foods early concept
st charles
proposal ideas that had floated for plug in or somthing?
forget think was tied in with the above plug in stuff
bus terminal stuff aka pencil tower
100 main st proposals
vikings football stadium proposal for canad inns
bridge condos assinboin river
early nichee commons design
this was for adelaind and banntyne
wso pantagious theate expansion
that parkade n he east exchange the city never built
no idea what this is
old old idea floated around for this building at mcdermot and rory
lobby for walker theater
acent acent relic
dont think this got built was in the village but something els did go up there?
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