Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Fort Rouge

[bomberjet]

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.87449...7i16384!8i8192

Also interesting about the tire tracks over the sidewalk. Looks like semi trailers dragging across. Don't people know to use Jessie instead is they want to make that turn from Pembina to Osborne lol

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.87449...7i16384!8i8192

Also interesting about the tire tracks over the sidewalk. Looks like semi trailers dragging across. Don't people know to use Jessie instead is they want to make that turn from Pembina to Osborne lol

They messed up Jessie when they revamped Pembina a few years back. Worst one is coming off Corydon and having to drive now down Pembina and make a U-turn at the lights. Before you just turned off Pembina straight onto Jessie. Also the signage or lack of to explain to people this is how you get to Osborne is lacking or it's very Small. Seems they decided that small signs were better then the overhead ones we used to have. Takes one semi or bus to block the signs now.

[plrh]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.87449...7i16384!8i8192

Also interesting about the tire tracks over the sidewalk. Looks like semi trailers dragging across. Don't people know to use Jessie instead is they want to make that turn from Pembina to Osborne lol

Jessie is not a truck route.

[esquire]

Ooooh I do love me some Microsoft Word Art!

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by esquire

Ooooh I do love me some Microsoft Word Art!

i knew you would be particularly fond of this update lol

[esquire]

[WinCitySparky]

17 storey building officially on the way for the empty hole beside Big Whitey there at Confusion Corner, which will include a fully automated U-Tron parking garage.

The building rendering looks just as fuckin ugly as its sister building but hey, better than a hole in the ground.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bu...576632952.html

[trueviking]

Good news but that is not an attractive building.

[trueviking]

My money is on the parkade being built but not the tower on top.

[Only The Lonely..]

I got my hopes up there for a second that we were getting a new Remand Centre.

[wags_in_the_peg]

Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

I got my hopes up there for a second that we were getting a new Remand Centre.

[Only The Lonely..]

Also, to settle the debate.. The rendering shows proper balconies on the office building.

[esquire]

That complex looks vaguely Japanese, like something you would expect to see on the outskirts of Yokohama. It's not a looker but it's not terrible either... I'd be happy to see it go up if only so we could finally see some residential development next to Osborne Station.

[3de14eec6a]

So it sounds like they're sticking with the same basic plan as the original. But they'll actually get it done, rather than have things sit around.

I'm okay with this. The renders weren't particularly inspiring at the outset. But getting residential in that area is great.

A fun quote from the project thread (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...php?t=220693):
esquire - "I have to admit I didn't really expect this project to come to fruition, I more or less lumped it in the same category as the other eternal proposals that never actually get built"

[esquire]

^ I said that mainly because of the developer... it seems that we often get renderings from someone who has never built anything bigger than a single family home and the project falls apart. As compared to the proven developers where when they put out a rendering, you can take it to the bank that it will get built... for better or for worse

[trueviking]

just because they say they will finish it doesn't mean they will...we are in a whole new world for development.

[WinCitySparky]

Originally Posted by trueviking

just because they say they will finish it doesn't mean they will...we are in a whole new world for development.

Elaborate your thoughts?

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

Elaborate your thoughts?

this is the most challenging time for development that i have seen in my entire career. Interest rates going up monthly is causing developers to refinance several times before projects can even get off the ground. Construction costs have risen 1% per month since the new year. Every week there's a new challenge. Everyone wants to build but so many are hitting roadblocks...now the looming recession has everyone scared.

A development like this, with a unique parking system and costly high-rise construction will be a challenge to say the least. It will be significantly more expensive today that it would have been had they not stopped construction two years ago.

[lbnevs]

Saw in the WFP that Adam Donnelly from Segovia has bought Close Company and will be reopening it as 'Petit Socco'. That's all great news, but got me wondering...

Does anyone know what's happening to the old Segovia location? It's a beautiful restaurant, great patio, really turnkey, I'm disappointed nothing's happened with it yet. I know it's a tough time to open an eat-in restaurant, but...

[zalf]

Basically done. There's still some fit-and-finish to be done on the exterior, but I am told that residents have moved in and it's mostly or entirely full.