Winnipeg Construction X - Page 429

Luisito · #**8561** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 6:57 PM**

Looks great.

wags_in_the_peg · #**8562** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 7:13 PM**

looks great and happy to see building along St James and Portage too. that's alot of green roofs that I predict wont make it, but more density is great

bomberjet · #**8563** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 7:57 PM**

Where will all the cars park? Joking, not joking.

I have zero faith that Shindico will get this done to any sort of standard other than cheap and stucco. But ya looks like a lot of people which will be great.

I assume Shindico controls that stadium site and CF controls the mall site separately?

blueandgoldguy · #**8564** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 9:12 PM**

4,000 units if it is developed in a similar fashion to what we see in those renders? That likely means an additional 7-8,000 people living in the Polo Park area. What a shot in the arm that would be for St. James/West End!

If we ended up with half that many units in ten years, I would be thrilled.

trueviking · #**8565** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 9:15 PM**

sorry, I didn't realize there was already a thread for this...please move over there.

Gravity Wins · #**8566** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 9:48 PM**

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post_man · #**8567** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 10:21 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by cllew

Looking at Google maps its been a parking lot since at least 2007 as that is the earliest picture of the lot on file

As of 2019 there were still houses there. 376 to 388 Young. The 380 Young project is right next to the apartment at 368 Young.

trueviking · #**8568** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 10:21 PM**

did we know about this? 980 St. James Street

https://www.mrichardassociates.ca/st...aeGajp6o9CF1hY

post_man · #**8569** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 10:27 PM**

101 residential units, 40 underground parking spots, 175 surface parking spots. Not crazy about those ratios, but those lots are long overdue for development; it's been a barren strip for about a decade now.
Interesting-looking building though- it's serving more than the usual superflat gray-and-white or suburban stucco that we've been subjected to for the past thirty years.

esquire · #**8570** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 10:33 PM**

Damn. For a second I thought I was looking at the Federal Building in Edmonton

St. James St. is turning into such a weird mishmash of stuff now. The remains of its light industrial history before the 1980s, the big box retail from the last 40 years, and now changing directions again into residential.

I'm not crazy about that 980 St. James proposal, it's way too horizontal. It looks like something you'd see along an expressway near Seasons of Tuxedo. That is too urban an area for a building like that, with the parking out front.

esquire · #**8571** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 10:36 PM**

I mean... yeesh... look at this...

Are there no design standards left in this city? This looks like something straight out of the 60s or 70s, especially in terms of site layout.

bomberjet · #**8572** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 10:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

did we know about this? 980 St. James Street

I missed it. It's for the land in which the City bought and demo'd the long strip mall for the St Matthews extension. It had been for sale for quite a while.

Ya the layout of the site doesn't surprise me. Fits the neighbourhood. Especially with the main floor retail. I feel like this is the trend now in Winnipeg. Main floor retail with residential overtop. With a sea or parking surrounding.

Coil · #**8573** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 11:08 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by trueviking

did we know about this? 980 St. James Street

https://www.mrichardassociates.ca/st...aeGajp6o9CF1hY

Wonder who the architect is...

Kind of a weird building...you couldn't pay me enough to live in that big-box store jungle, but between this and the Shindico development maybe Polo Park is the future.

...Is that a bit of art deco ornament I see at the top?

bomberjet · #**8574** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 11:26 PM**

I don't mind it. The stick on bits are kind of tacky. But if the finish for the fancier parts are brick, then it's not bad.

Too bad the old rail corridor wasnt preserved for an LRT route from Portage to the airport.

WinCitySparky · #**8575** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 12:15 AM**

Fuck yeah bring back Art Deco!!

Kris22 · #**8576** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 12:42 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by post_man

101 residential units, 40 underground parking spots, 175 surface parking spots. Not crazy about those ratios, but those lots are long overdue for development; it's been a barren strip for about a decade now.
Interesting-looking building though- it's serving more than the usual superflat gray-and-white or suburban stucco that we've been subjected to for the past thirty years.

215 spots for 101 units? Yikes. This really isn't a great use of land. But for that area of town it's pretty much expected. I'm happy to see residential happening there. And the design is quite unexpected.

wags_in_the_peg · #**8577** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 12:57 AM**

Some spots are for the CRU. I like modernizing St James w more apartments. Not too far for RRC students or retail workers.

city_slicker · #**8578** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 4:34 AM**

Terrible site plan, sigh

trueviking · #**8579** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 5:02 AM**

I like the building itself, but yeah that site plan is horrible.

I thinnk BLDG is the architect.

plrh · #**8580** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 5:15 AM**

The site plan looks like that of an airport hotel. Which in a way is not out of character for the neighbourhood.