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bomberjet · #**621** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 2:48 PM**

WPG_Guy. Loving the posts. Appreciate the effort!!

bomberjet · #**622** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 2:52 PM**

Within the City, Waverley was one of the last major crossings of the 2 railway mainlines. Some smaller, more local crossings remain. About 4-5 for each railway.

esquire · #**623** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 3:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

WPG_Guy. Loving the posts. Appreciate the effort!!

Agreed 100%, thanks wpg_guy

EndoftheBeginning · #**624** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 4:27 PM**

From next Board of Adjustment meeting (so maybe these were posted before, don't recall seeing them though).

361 Burnell multi-family.

3280 Pembina - two buildings in the proposal.

bomberjet · #**625** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 5:41 PM**

http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/View...onId=&InitUrl=
Info on a lot of other developments in that link as well.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**626** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 5:45 PM**

The water illustration is strange given the location.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/36...!4d-97.1704316

buzzg · #**627** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 5:50 PM**

^The proposal for the vacant lot at 175 St. Anne's (by the curling club) looks fantastic. 4 storey mixed use building built to the sidewalk with 5 street-level CRUs, 3 storeys of residential, and parking behind. St. Vital is winning.

Also, the improved sign at the Winter Club and new rod iron fence and planters along Donald sound nice. Hopefully they paint all the peeling blue paint on the building too.

buzzg · #**628** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 5:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

The water illustration is strange given the location.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/36...!4d-97.1704316

Those are 2 different building in that post – Burnell one has no surroundings.

bomberjet · #**629** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

^The proposal for the vacant lot at 175 St. Anne's (by the curling club) looks fantastic. 4 storey mixed use building built to the sidewalk with 5 street-level CRUs, 3 storeys of residential, and parking behind. St. Vital is winning.

Looks great. That's what should've been done with the 2 recent buildings on Henderson north of Kimberly. I get one is for the Fort group. However they're renting out space. The other building still seems pretty empty. Should've been at the street with CRU's instead of parking lots and blank walls.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**630** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

Those are 2 different building in that post – Burnell one has no surroundings.

Thanks. Should have caught that.

EndoftheBeginning · #**631** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

^The proposal for the vacant lot at 175 St. Anne's (by the curling club) looks fantastic. 4 storey mixed use building built to the sidewalk with 5 street-level CRUs, 3 storeys of residential, and parking behind. St. Vital is winning.

EndoftheBeginning · #**632** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 6:59 PM**

And speaking of libraries, as Wpg_Guy was with the great updates, the Bill and Helen Norrie Library on Poseidon is posted for bids on the City procurement page. Title sheet below.

esquire · #**633** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 7:06 PM**

Maybe that isn't the greatest rendering, but that library doesn't look very good, especially wedged awkwardly next to Pan Am Pool.

BigG · #**634** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 7:13 PM**

It looks like a longhouse.

EndoftheBeginning · #**635** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 7:16 PM**

^ Site layout

esquire · #**636** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 7:39 PM**

^ OK, pushing it up closer to Grant Ave makes things a little more tolerable at least with respect to site layout, but I'm still not in love with that design.

Wpg_Guy · #**637** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 7:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning

And speaking of libraries, as Wpg_Guy was with the great updates, the Bill and Helen Norrie Library on Poseidon is posted for bids on the City procurement page. Title sheet below.

The inspiration behind the design was the Rooster Town settlement that once occupied the area around Grant Park.

I posted the Norrie Library back in May, was in the old thread, here are more renderings and details:

Bill and Helen Norrie Library
Location: Cambridge Street and Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB
Developer: City of Winnipeg
Architects: LM Architectural Group
Contractor: Boretta Construction
Size: 14,000 Sq Ft
Cost: $6.3M
Status: completion date in late 2020
Media: Proposed design calls for City’s first non-gendered, universal washroom
Description: The new library will be northwest of the Pan Am Pool, near the intersection of Poseidon Bay and Cambridge Street. It will take up 14,000 square feet in the Grant Park campus and will replace the existing River Heights Library at 1520 Corydon Ave. The new library is set to open in 2021.

The City of Winnipeg revealed its design for the Bill and Helen Norrie Library, to be built at the corner of Cambridge Street and Grant Avenue, as part of the Grant Park Recreation Campus.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ou...3Qw7-iuIq6Jq_s

buzzg · #**638** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 8:45 PM**

I like the inside shots, but yeah – outside looks like a skate change or provincial park building. Definitely not in the same spirit as any of the other recent new libraries (although that alone is not necessarily bad).

I have to say while overall I'm a big fan of the Grant Park recreation complex vision, I'm a bit surprised at the way they've been going about laying out the site. They've essentially planned it so when it's eventually time to replace Pan Am (and my god that can't be far off), they won't be able to build the new one on site while the existing one is still open. And I don't know if we have the other aquatic facilities to handle that much movement of Pan Am being closed. Only possible option other than relocation would be putting it at the corner of Nathaniel and Taylor, but the plan to put the library there was already rejected due to traffic concerns, and the fact they'd have to rejig all the fields again.

bomberjet · #**639** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 9:01 PM**

There are plans for a South Winnipeg Rec campus in Waverley west (I think) including a pool (I think). So would seem to be a replacement of Pan Am. Let me check.

Edit: I think I got the YMCA mixed up for a larger pool in the Waverley West thing.

Here is the grant park planning study.
https://winnipeg.ca/cms/projects/gra...#tab-documents

buzzg · #**640** Posted **Aug 19, 2019, 9:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

There are plans for a South Winnipeg Rec campus in Waverley west (I think) including a pool (I think). So would seem to be a replacement of Pan Am. Let me check.

I know I heard a couple years ago that the YMCA was starting to look at adding a new south Winnipeg location, and eyeing sites on Waverly for it – could that be what you're thinking of?

I think if a proper replacement of Pan Am was happening, it'd be big news.