Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Fort Rouge - Page 247

WinCitySparky · #**4921** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 12:52 AM**

Agree there

Mr Tall Forehead · #**4922** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 1:36 AM**

^ agree

Kris22 · #**4923** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 2:35 AM**

The hole is being dug for the apartment building at Hugo and McMillan. I believe it is a 4 storey faux heritage style building (it was posted somewhere here a while back).

Arcticwolf33 · #**4924** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 4:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by bussche

Piling has begun.

This has to be right beside Mayfair Place where vacant land has been sitting empty years and years. Yeah, I know it's 269 River Ave.
I'm happy something is getting built there after all this time.

EdwardTH · #**4925** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Malcsta

Do we know whats going on that corner lot at arbuthnot and corydon? Old site of Kenko/Beaurivage that was recently torn down?

Parking lot? They've been clearing the snow and I've seen vehicles park there.

Mr Tall Forehead · #**4926** Posted **Jan 22, 2026, 8:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mr Tall Forehead

What about the lot at the NW corner of Stradbrook and Osborne?

The lot that used to be a paved parking lot that the City had up for sale a few years back and was finally dug up for soil remediation last year - and is now a gravel parking lot.

Does anyone know what's happening with that site. That lot and the peeling mural and boarded up windows on the old Basil's building just north of it are painful to look at.

I guess this answers my question:

https://www.winnipeg.ca/media/6440

I can't remember what the City was originally asking for this lot, but it has definitely gone up. I guess they factored in the cost of the soil remediation into the new asking price.

Hopefully someone snaps this up and builds a mixed use on this corner. It's pretty dismal right now.

ColdRain&Snow · #**4927** Posted **Jan 22, 2026, 8:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mr Tall Forehead

I guess this answers my question:

https://www.winnipeg.ca/media/6440

I can't remember what the City was originally asking for this lot, but it has definitely gone up. I guess they factored in the cost of the soil remediation into the new asking price.

Hopefully someone snaps this up and builds a mixed use on this corner. It's pretty dismal right now.

At least it is up for sale again. Hopefully it gets sold on that March 6 date and we get a new building there in the next couple years.

ColdRain&Snow · #**4928** Posted **Jan 25, 2026, 1:00 AM**

Photos are from earlier today:

51 Roslyn Rd:

ColdRain&Snow · #**4929** Posted **Jan 25, 2026, 1:00 AM**

350 River Ave:

ColdRain&Snow · #**4930** Posted **Jan 25, 2026, 1:06 AM**

430 Wardlaw Ave, which was the 3rd and final phase in the "Zu" apartments complex. I believed it opened back in October 2025 but I didn't get a picture of the finished building until today.

As far as I can tell from the website, there are 43 apartments available out the of 207 apartments in the whole complex (across all 3 buildings). Therefore about 80% of the apartments have been leased.

https://www.thezu.ca/floorplans/carly

ColdRain&Snow · #**4931** Posted **Jan 25, 2026, 1:11 AM**

Piles going in at 670 McMillan Ave:

ColdRain&Snow · #**4932** Posted **Jan 25, 2026, 1:14 AM**

Liquor license application at 160 Osborne St (ground commercial unit of the Zu apartment building facing Osborne St). Appears the new restaurant will be called Sottobraccio.

WinCitySparky · #**4933** Posted **Jan 26, 2026, 9:04 PM**

https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/arti...-lot-for-165m/

Lot at Stradbrook and Osborne up for sale by city officially

jim_bred · #**4934** Posted **Jan 26, 2026, 9:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/arti...-lot-for-165m/

Lot at Stradbrook and Osborne up for sale by city officially

What a prime A+ location, I hope they get it right.

trueviking · #**4935** Posted **Jan 26, 2026, 10:11 PM**

pretty crazy that such a prime piece of property has been a parking lot for 60 years.

EndIt · #**4936** Posted **Jan 26, 2026, 11:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

pretty crazy that such a prime piece of property has been a parking lot for 60 years.

Yeah the machinations of commercial real estate are strange. I live in west end Toronto now, and you'd think every last scrap of land would be in a frenzy to build and build big, but there's a surprising amount of empty lots and vacant buildings hanging on for years on end for no apparent reason (eg. 786 & 989 College, 1334 Bloor West all vacant since 2019).

ColdRain&Snow · #**4937** Posted **Jan 27, 2026, 5:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by EndIt

Yeah the machinations of commercial real estate are strange. I live in west end Toronto now, and you'd think every last scrap of land would be in a frenzy to build and build big, but there's a surprising amount of empty lots and vacant buildings hanging on for years on end for no apparent reason (eg. 786 & 989 College, 1334 Bloor West all vacant since 2019).

If you own a vacant lot, no reason to sell it right away if you can just wait and the value goes up while you do nothing. Property taxes on vacant lots are very low.

ColdRain&Snow · #**4938** Posted **Jan 27, 2026, 5:19 AM**

Seems that 109 Osborne St (old Shop Take Care location) has been leased.

https://www.iciproperties.com/listings/109osborne

Wpg_Guy · #**4939** Posted **Jan 27, 2026, 5:57 AM**

Thanks for the picture updates ColdRain&Snow

cheswick · #**4940** Posted **Jan 27, 2026, 4:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

If you own a vacant lot, no reason to sell it right away if you can just wait and the value goes up while you do nothing. Property taxes on vacant lots are very low.

There's an opportunity cost to sitting on vacant property. Yeah it'll increase in value but so would a broad market ETF. Holding a vacant lot in Winnipeg over the past 10 or 30 years would have less than half the return of holding the TSX Composite index.