Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Corydon area - Page 147

esquire · #**2921** Posted **Jun 16, 2022, 6:10 PM**

The heights in that rendering are a little fanciful for Winnipeg but the idea is basically the same... the Skytrain-style high density cluster of towers with a commercial base.

sleepyeyed · #**2922** Posted **Jun 16, 2022, 9:16 PM**

I always thought the lot south of 11 Evergreen, north of the Shell would make a good hotel location.

BAKGUY · #**2923** Posted **Jun 16, 2022, 10:17 PM**

Absolutely.
A decent hotel, perhaps mid scale to lower upper end would be ideal.
True, between Osborne Village, Corydon village, South Osborne & Even Downtown, what a great location. Tourists, like myself when I travel, want a safer thriving area to feel somewhat safer to walk, stroll and explore.
Having a good selection of eateries helps.
I also agree, Confusion corner, just like Marion Street with Dominion Centre, are terribly underused sites that need residential.
It would bolster the need for more frequent transit offerings.

thebasketballgeek · #**2924** Posted **Jun 20, 2022, 6:55 PM**

rivercity · #**2925** Posted **Jun 20, 2022, 6:58 PM**

New ownership group seems promising. I hope that the City's insect branch is larviciding that hole.

zalf · #**2926** Posted **Jun 20, 2022, 7:00 PM**

Thank god

That site has so much potential. I have no idea how it took so long for the previous owner to admit defeat. Okay, so you ran out of money? Unfortunate, but then sell the site! Cut your losses! I mean they did do that, but somehow it took like three years to come to that realization.

Edit: I guess they didn't even do that. Their creditors took over the project.

trueviking · #**2927** Posted **Jun 20, 2022, 7:03 PM**

interesting....hopefully this moves it along.

jack kovnats
President at Avatar Construction Inc,

esquire · #**2928** Posted **Jun 20, 2022, 7:07 PM**

Is the first building complete and fully occupied? It's not clear to me from looking at it.

trueviking · #**2929** Posted **Jun 20, 2022, 8:20 PM**

it looks like less than one floor and the main floor retail spaces are occupied.....80% empty.

Biff · #**2930** Posted **Jun 21, 2022, 1:08 PM**

It's also not complete. There is no glazing on the balconies or at the top of the building.

There is no way the balconies as constructed are to code, they are wide open. There is supposed to be tinted glazing covering them.

trueviking · #**2931** Posted **Jun 21, 2022, 10:13 PM**

it is complete...those aren't balconies, they are architectural flourishes.....

borkborkbork · #**2932** Posted **Jun 23, 2022, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

it is complete...those aren't balconies, they are architectural flourishes.....

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/

trueviking · #**2933** Posted **Jun 23, 2022, 7:29 PM**

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

Biff · #**2934** 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 · #**2935** 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 · #**2936** Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 1:07 PM**

Yes there are doors to every balcony.

esquire · #**2937** 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

BAKGUY · #**2938** Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 8:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Yes there are doors to every balcony.

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

biguc · #**2939** 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 · #**2940** Posted **Jun 25, 2022, 9:36 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Biff

It's also not complete. There is no glazing on the balconies or at the top of the building.

There is no way the balconies as constructed are to code, they are wide open. There is supposed to be tinted glazing covering them.

It's an ugly building. Simple as that. They could have used all that blank space for advertising like a Times Square deal. Only part that's nice is the coffee shop. It hasn't really improved the area at all. Neither does the crater beside it which amazingly has some movement now after 4 plus years.....

That block could have been so much more with residential over office's. Especially right beside Osborne Station. That entire area has so much potential. Heck I don't mind if Burger King stayed and the rest. Just factor them into the rebuild. That massive parking lot really doesn't need to be there. Imagine more residential behind Burger King. Could even keep the parking under it. But you sure could densifye that area alot more. Maybe even stop the left turn off Osborne south to go east. That's one of the biggest snarl point's.