Winnipeg Construction VIII

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by lilwayne

like i said long time ago

d condos happening over budget tho
hotel portage and main happening
fortress project highly unlikely to move forward they want the city or province to fund the start up costs.. they have no grocer signed on yet for building either and that was key phase of the project

Just hope the P&M hotel doesn't end up looking like this:

[armorand93]

But how else will 360 Main look modern if a beige piece-of-shit hotel isn't built at the corner of Portage and Main?!?! :O

[Bdog]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Just hope the P&M hotel doesn't end up looking like this:

We already have one. It's called the Humphrey.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by lilwayne

like i said long time ago

d condos happening over budget tho
hotel portage and main happening
fortress project highly unlikely to move forward they want the city or province to fund the start up costs.. they have no grocer signed on yet for building either and that was key phase of the project

Are you Nostradumass?

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by biguc

Are you Nostradumass?

[cllew]

Originally Posted by steveosnyder

On the bus ride home I saw public hearin notice for the economart @ inkster and main.

Patterson outdoor signs wanted approval to keep the billboard in the parking lot.

Civic administration does not recomend approval for a couple of reasons.

Meeting was Mar 12/14 but the minutes are not yet available for the Board of Adjustment so I don't know if the board followed the administration's recomendation or allowed the sign to stay for another few years.

[Kinguni]

Public hearing notices are up at Fort Richmond Plaza. Looks like Sobey's plans to build new there. Quick look mentioned grocery store.

[DancingDuck]

Makes sense, closest Sobeys is either on kenaston or south st vital, and Safeway has a larger and more modern store just up the road
Supposedly the few remaining tenants have been given 3 months to clear out

[thebasketballgeek]

Is sobeys going to take up the whole mall space or will their be other stores?

[DancingDuck]

I imagine the mall will be demolished and any new buildings built from scratch. If my memory is correct, the Safeway portion is to small and the Zellers portion is to big for a Sobeys

[cllew]

If they do like the River East Plaza project on Henderson Hwy, the developer will demolish the unused portion , build the new store and then take down the old Safeway once the new store is open.

[thebasketballgeek]

This sounds crazy but it's the perfect oppurtunity to make the area more dense by having some kind of urban format. Like have high rise apartments on top of the stores, and take out the parking lots to make a parkade. (probably will never happen)

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek

This sounds crazy but it's the perfect oppurtunity to make the area more dense by having some kind of urban format. Like have high rise apartments on top of the stores, and take out the parking lots to make a parkade. (probably will never happen)

I really wish they'd do this. Theres an utter lack of densification south of the University. Plus they'd have alot of customers without cars walking in. Which is how the former Courts IGA lasted for so long with those apartments built next door...

I couldn't see why not though. It's along Pembina with apartments nearby. Even if the NIMBY's cry their asses off, I could at least see it going up to 4-6 stories.

[thebasketballgeek]

Originally Posted by armorand93

I really wish they'd do this. Theres an utter lack of densification south of the University. Plus they'd have alot of customers without cars walking in. Which is how the former Courts IGA lasted for so long with those apartments built next door...

I couldn't see why not though. It's along Pembina with apartments nearby. Even if the NIMBY's cry their asses off, I could at least see it going up to 4-6 stories.

Yea I would love to see that area more walkable and it would also look better. I am very disappointed in how they made that area so car oriented. I know that it is basically the entrance of southern Winnipeg so their is a lot of cars passing through Pembina, but still that part of Pembina looks plain ugly (way to many parking lots, even for a suburban area).

Anyway I hope the next developer has an idea to densify it otherwise it's probably another 10-20 years of ugly design and bad streetlife.

[1ajs]

the cmhr is getting lit up tonight and tomarrow in green so aparently they have a slew of colour lighting for it

[cllew]

Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek

Is sobeys going to take up the whole mall space or will their be other stores?

Plans should be available in about 1 month on the board of adjustment agenda.

[steveosnyder]

Originally Posted by armorand93

I really wish they'd do this. Theres an utter lack of densification south of the University. Plus they'd have alot of customers without cars walking in. Which is how the former Courts IGA lasted for so long with those apartments built next door...

I couldn't see why not though. It's along Pembina with apartments nearby. Even if the NIMBY's cry their asses off, I could at least see it going up to 4-6 stories.

This will never happen. Not that I don't think it's a good idea, or that it's what I would want to happen, but it just won't happen. A developer wouldn't be able to get financing for this without a huge commitment on their end, and the perceived risk would mean they would have higher interest rates.

It's all about making money, and the developer sees higher returns for lower risk with a single-use C4 zone.

[steveosnyder]

Regarding the North Point Village "community" plan which can be seen here...

The Lord Selkirk-West Kildonan Community Committee provided the following supporting reasons for its recommendation:

1. The subject proposal is a wonderful mixed used development for our neighbourhood and will add much needed commercial and employment opportunities.

The community committee can't be that stupid, can they? Mixed use? Employment? Wow...

[The Unknown Poster]

Good to hear the Ft Richmond plaza project finally seems to be going ahead. As a lifetime south winnipeg resident I remember when that place was pretty full or at least decent. It's such a depressing ghost town now and we've been hearing rumours for years about re-development. You knew it was coming since they never spent a dime on that Safeway and it doenst fit the mold being a mall entrance access.

[esquire]

I had no idea that this was in the works, but it appears that the Dreman Building has been/is being converted from office to residential condos. Here is a 2000 sf unit on the market for $599K:

http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?PropertyId=14169780

Not a bad idea... this is a sliver of an office building next to a large parkade on Portage Avenue, and it has had a hard time attracting/keeping tenants for as long as I've been paying attention to it. There have been other successful residential conversions in old office buildings nearby, most notably the Lindsay Building and the Avenue Building, so this makes pretty good sense. The suite on the market is definitely more upscale than anything in those two buildings, though... it looks like it is competing head-on with the posh condos on Waterfront Drive. Of course, the big downside is that if you live there, you only have a tiny strip of windows facing north to Portage.

Slowly but surely (and quite improbably) there is a significant cluster of residential emerging along Portage between Main and Hargrave.