Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Fort Rouge - Page 139

morningcig · #1 Posted **Aug 31, 2022, 7:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by borkborkbork

bs. the rendering shows this area covered. yes probably with some sort of perforated screen, but that is certainly not "complete" in terms of building it to the specifications in their variance:

http://www.dinprojects.ca/portfolio/257-osborne/

Bork is correct and viking is either completely wrong or unintentionally misleading. The building was always meant to have a perforated metal screen on the front and top corner balcony. I highly doubt anyone told him that it was complete or intended to be an 'architectural flourish.'

trueviking · #2 Posted **Aug 31, 2022, 9:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by morningcig

Bork is correct and viking is either completely wrong or unintentionally misleading. The building was always meant to have a perforated metal screen on the front and top corner balcony. I highly doubt anyone told him that it was complete or intended to be an 'architectural flourish.'

I agree, it seems dumb, but I asked the architect and he said its done....i hope I am wrong.

borkborkbork · #3 Posted **Sep 4, 2022, 10:18 PM**

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I agree, it seems dumb, but I asked the architect and he said its done....i hope I am wrong.

I mean, it's clear that there are screens in the plans submitted with their zoning variances. The material is described as "PERFORATED METAL PANEL". They just got approval for A and built B, as the city seems to constantly allow developers to do.

trueviking · #4 Posted **Jun 23, 2022, 7:29 PM**

ha ha...i asked the architect and he said it was staying like that!

Biff · #5 Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 12:45 PM**

There is nothing from preventing someone from falling through the railing except the top bar? Won't someone think of the children!

There is no way that is code. I guess the balconies (architectural flourishes) will never be used then.

wags_in_the_peg · #6 Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 1:05 PM**

is there even doors to those "balconies"? I don't recall seeing them. I thought the metal grid was bracing for giant TV screen / advertising?

Biff · #7 Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 1:07 PM**

Yes there are doors to every balcony.

BAKGUY · #8 Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 8:21 PM**

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Yes there are doors to every balcony.

Hopefully the other 15 - 16 floors building gets built or something else to cover this abomination

esquire · #9 Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 1:45 PM**

^ You would think it could be completed eventually, though?

It's kind of like the projects I leave half-done around the house and yard, they stay that way until my wife eventually demands that I finish them

biguc · #10 Posted **Jun 25, 2022, 1:54 PM**

It doesn't help that there's stripmall parking out front now too. What a piece of shit.

Highwayman · #11 Posted **Jun 25, 2022, 9:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by biguc

It doesn't help that there's stripmall parking out front now too. What a piece of shit.

That's the only good floor on the building lol. And I maybe see one car there parked ever for the little coffee shop. Remember that was technically always parking with a dump of a money Mart. I've actually rode my bike around the place and the concrete work etc is actually pretty dang good for a little stripe mall. Almost upscale lol.

I just try and not look past the first floor though. It probably good thing it's white. Don't see it for 6 months of the year LMFAO

But you are right. Parking lot should not be there. Looking at Esquires post below with the green grass would have been alot nice and you could have actually made an outdoor place to eat . Then that first floor could have filled up with cafes and the like.

Jeff · #12 Posted **Jun 28, 2022, 8:16 PM**

new microsoft word art Corydon BIZ banners are up along the avenue. more colourful than the last batch

bomberjet · #13 Posted **Jun 27, 2022, 1:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by biguc

It doesn't help that there's stripmall parking out front now too. What a piece of shit.

I don't think that's actually supposed to be parking out front (which is probably what you're getting at..). It's like a fire lane or something.

There's no way the City approved public vehicle access to that area, since from the back lane it's not even 1 actual lane wide. Could they? There's also no landscaping, sidewalk protection. Nothing.

3de14eec6a · #14 Posted **Jun 27, 2022, 1:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

I don't think that's actually supposed to be parking out front (which is probably what you're getting at..). It's like a fire lane or something.

There's no way the City approved public vehicle access to that area, since from the back lane it's not even 1 actual lane wide. Could they? There's also no landscaping, sidewalk protection. Nothing.

I've actually seen a vehicle (BWM, would you believe it) hop the curb, go over the cycle lane, and into the "parking lot". And then carry on to southbound osborne. I wish my dashcam had arrived one day earlier so I would have caught it on video.

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Originally Posted by Highwayman

That block could have been so much more with residential over office's.

That was phase 2 plan, roughly. It was horribly planned out. Offices with no parking in phase 1, parking and residential as phase 2. Nobody wants offices with no parking, so they couldn't lease out phase 1.

borkborkbork · #15 Posted **Jul 1, 2022, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

I don't think that's actually supposed to be parking out front (which is probably what you're getting at..). It's like a fire lane or something.

There's no way the City approved public vehicle access to that area, since from the back lane it's not even 1 actual lane wide. Could they? There's also no landscaping, sidewalk protection. Nothing.

Is this worth reporting to 311? Will the city enforce anything? Or is it just a matter of "if it's built, then retroactively it's assumed to be fine"

morty · #16 Posted **Aug 1, 2022, 9:55 PM**

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Is this worth reporting to 311? Will the city enforce anything? Or is it just a matter of "if it's built, then retroactively it's assumed to be fine"

Interestingly enough, it appears the land that people are parking on is actually owned by the City. The land parcel that 257 Osborne is built on ends just north of the tree wells where the cement ends. The City seems to own the entire portion that's paved with asphalt.

When the old Money Mart building was expropriated and demolished in order to redo the intersection geometry, the entire parcel was opened as right-of-way of Pembina Hwy.

I can't find any record of the demolition being tendered by the City so it's hard to say exactly how it ended up as paved asphalt with no landscaping, fencing, or bollards.

cllew · #17 Posted **Aug 2, 2022, 12:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by morty

Interestingly enough, it appears the land that people are parking on is actually owned by the City. The land parcel that 257 Osborne is built on ends just north of the tree wells where the cement ends. The City seems to own the entire portion that's paved with asphalt.

When the old Money Mart building was expropriated and demolished in order to redo the intersection geometry, the entire parcel was opened as right-of-way of Pembina Hwy.

I can't find any record of the demolition being tendered by the City so it's hard to say exactly how it ended up as paved asphalt with no landscaping, fencing, or bollards.

Demolition may have been a change order as part of Tender 386-2016 as that land would have been part of the paving project once the expropriation was complete.