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Winnipeg Grump · #**3321** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 5:28 PM**

Isn't that the place owned by the two guys that ran all of the exotic dancers in the city?

Winnipeg Grump · #**3322** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Winnipeg Grump

Isn't that the place owned by the two guys that ran all of the exotic dancers in the city?

Answer: Yes. Yes, it is.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...lion-1.2798841

esquire · #**3323** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 5:55 PM**

That's something!

drew · #**3324** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 6:25 PM**

One of the owners was out touching up the paint on the exterior a lot this summer. I guess in preparation for a sale.

Amazing. Hopefully someone buys it and maintains it as a residence - very unique for sure.

buzzg · #**3325** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 6:56 PM**

It'd be a crazy restaurant

cllew · #**3326** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 8:39 PM**

The Winnipeg Architecture website says that the renovations in 2007 were expected to cost up to Two Million Dollars.

WinCitySparky · #**3327** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 8:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Winnipeg Grump

Answer: Yes. Yes, it is.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...lion-1.2798841

So cool!!!

trueviking · #**3328** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 8:57 PM**

It's actually a house?

buzzg · #**3329** Posted **Oct 9, 2020, 9:18 PM**

The main floor is a laser eye clinic, residential unit is second floor

cllew · #**3330** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 12:28 AM**

Wasn't that building some sort of spa before the laser eye clinic moved in?

esquire · #**3331** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 12:57 AM**

Maybe this was mentioned here before but I can't quite remember... does anyone know what they're putting in piles for along the river on Dunkirk Drive just south of the Canoe Club Golf Course? It looks way too big to be a house, so I'm assuming some kind of MURB?

DancingDuck · #**3332** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 1:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Maybe this was mentioned here before but I can't quite remember... does anyone know what they're putting in piles for along the river on Dunkirk Drive just south of the Canoe Club Golf Course? It looks way too big to be a house, so I'm assuming some kind of MURB?

It's a house

A big-ass house with a ~650sqft boat shed and a ~2000sqft detached garage

esquire · #**3333** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 1:07 AM**

^ Interesting, thanks. That's a peculiar spot for what must be a monster of a home... the lot is not that big (it's fairly narrow) and there are hardly any trees left. Seems almost tailor made for a few townhouses.

BAKGUY · #**3334** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 1:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by EspionNoir

234 Portage Ave. seems to be up for sale. Anyone know the history behind this place? Because this is part of the interior. Wow.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGIDb5NA..._web_copy_link

Wow!
I vaguely recall as a teen being inside when it was still a bank.
The exterior always amazed me.
I recall some chat with Michel at election time and seeing some press over what the renovations looked like.
What can I say?
I personally love it.
Everything from the renos to the furnishings and I am a finicky person who works as a design consultant. lol
I am suer most people would not be comfortable with it but for single folk or empty nesters, quite the lifestyle.
Especially in good times when all the entertainment venues, dining options and theatres are open.
If I could afford, I would probably live there or something similar.

trueviking · #**3335** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 1:48 AM**

Definitely not a fan of the 201 portage development. Little private banking offices with uncomfortably large windows lining Portage and Main is pretty weak. A little side door to scurry in. They were celebrating returning the corner to prominence and entering off the corner. It’s treated as a back wall.

bomberjet · #**3336** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 2:19 AM**

Oh that's Fillion's place haha weird.

Jeff · #**3337** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 4:23 AM**

construction barricades were being removed around the Richardson plaza as i sat at the light at P&M tonight. normal-looking curb and wide-open sidewalk to the street with narry a hint of a bollard or concrete barrier of any kind. nice eff-you to the "closed" crowd?

Wigglez · #**3338** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 5:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jeff

construction barricades were being removed around the Richardson plaza as i sat at the light at P&M tonight. normal-looking curb and wide-open sidewalk to the street with narry a hint of a bollard or concrete barrier of any kind. nice eff-you to the "closed" crowd?

It's so dangerous now! I've personally seen more than 300,000 people die at that corner since they did that!!! Cars use the sidewalk as a high speed merge lane now!

pspeid · #**3339** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 2:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigglez

It's so dangerous now! I've personally seen more than 300,000 people die at that corner since they did that!!! Cars use the sidewalk as a high speed merge lane now!

Brilliant!

Jeff · #**3340** Posted **Oct 10, 2020, 3:44 PM**

good thing there's lots of room without the barriers there now to put up a memorial to those we have so needlessly lost to the ravages of the open corner! it can be a giant statue of charles darwin staring hopelessly down portage with a tear running down his cheek as the water feature...