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[Unbending]

Does anyone know what these three projects are that are mentioned in the September 2023 Downtown Recovery Strategy Report? Have these projects already been announced? Or are they new?



https://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/Vie...6&isMobile=yes

[WinCitySparky]

The first one is likely the Colony project beside Muse Flats, the second one is probably the MMF one on Notre Dame, and the third one can’t guess.

[CoryB]

Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

and the third one can’t guess.

"The New Windsor" /s

[Unbending]

Marketlands? It has a retail and housing component. After demolishing the Public Safety Building, the site has become a gravel surface parking lot for the past number of years.

[WinCitySparky]

Originally Posted by CoryB

"The New Windsor" /s

lmao

Mixed use being the strip club

[WinCitySparky]

Originally Posted by Unbending

Marketlands? It has a retail and housing component. After demolishing the Public Safety Building, the site has become a gravel surface parking lot for the past number of years.

Good guess!

[Biff]

I don't know about the 3rd one. The other two are correct. Marketlands has 96 units and I guess people can argue the semantics, but it is not a surface parking lot. It is a fenced off area that has been used for specific one off events, but definitely not a parking lot.

[Biff]

127 Bannatyne is or was 90 units on an existing parking lot.

[ColdRain&Snow]

Originally Posted by Unbending

Does anyone know what these three projects are that are mentioned in the September 2023 Downtown Recovery Strategy Report? Have these projects already been announced? Or are they new?

https://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/Vie...6&isMobile=yes

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[ColdRain&Snow]

Looks like 380 Young St is coming along well.

[WinCitySparky]

Looks like every other plain-ass building being built this decade all right lol but a good project for a good purpose.

Thanks for the pic.

[DonaldSmith]

1918 St. Mary's

[ColdRain&Snow]

Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

Looks like every other plain-ass building being built this decade all right lol but a good project for a good purpose.

Thanks for the pic.

It's concrete walls (poured concrete in ICF) and concrete floors (hollow-core slabs) all the way up. So it'll be more durable and sound-proof than your average wood-frame building.

The renderings look okay. Nothing fancy but not too bad overall:
https://michellebacon.com/380-young-street/

[Kinguni]

Originally Posted by Biff

That is good news for such an odd, likely hard to repurpose office building.

Now I feel old because I can remember it being built and going into it when it was new.

[WinCitySparky]

Originally Posted by Kinguni

Now I feel old because I can remember it being built and going into it when it was new.

Time flies

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by Kinguni

Now I feel old because I can remember it being built and going into it when it was new.

Just wait.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by Kinguni

Now I feel old because I can remember it being built and going into it when it was new.

I can do you one better. When I was in my late teens I had a short lived construction job with a plumbing company and we were contracted to hang all the gas pipe in the building under construction...hated every minute of it. "It's not my jam", as Gary Busey said recently.

I remember though, it was where I learned how fake the movies where when someone either breaks or goes flying out of a skyscraper window. High-rise windows are extremely tough. There was a window on the 3rd or 4th floor (York side) that was broken in the installation - still installed. One of the guys I was working with said since it is already broken, want to see how tough it is, and hit it with a random break chair that was sitting near by. he put a couple of new cracks in it, but it definitely didn't move.

...anyways

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by Biff

I can do you one better. When I was in my late teens I had a short lived construction job with a plumbing company and we were contracted to hang all the gas pipe in the building under construction...hated every minute of it. "It's not my jam", as Gary Busey said recently.

I remember though, it was where I learned how fake the movies where when someone either breaks or goes flying out of a skyscraper window. High-rise windows are extremely tough. There was a window on the 3rd or 4th floor (York side) that was broken in the installation - still installed. One of the guys I was working with said since it is already broken, want to see how tough it is, and hit it with a random break chair that was sitting near by. he put a couple of new cracks in it, but it definitely didn't move.

...anyways

So construction doesn't use sugar glass? Huh!

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by Biff

I can do you one better. When I was in my late teens I had a short lived construction job with a plumbing company and we were contracted to hang all the gas pipe in the building under construction...hated every minute of it. "It's not my jam", as Gary Busey said recently.

I remember though, it was where I learned how fake the movies where when someone either breaks or goes flying out of a skyscraper window. High-rise windows are extremely tough. There was a window on the 3rd or 4th floor (York side) that was broken in the installation - still installed. One of the guys I was working with said since it is already broken, want to see how tough it is, and hit it with a random break chair that was sitting near by. he put a couple of new cracks in it, but it definitely didn't move.

...anyways

You’re more likely to break the frame or the mounting points (whatever those are called) than the glass. Just like that senior lawyer at a Toronto firm who plunged to his death after many tours with new students where he would take a running start at the same window to demonstrate how strong it was. The window never broke but over time he weakened the frame around it and one time popped it right out and met his demise

[WinCitySparky]

Wow, imagine his panicked surprise