Winnipeg Construction XI

[FactaNV]

Take off the Eritrean flag and its fine. Not too different from flying a swastika on their building.

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by FactaNV

Take off the Eritrean flag and its fine. Not too different from flying a swastika on their building.

If we started banning every national flag whose current government someone dislikes, half the flags in this city would have to come down. The flag belongs to the Eritrean people and their 30-year struggle for independence, the community has the exact same right to show pride in their heritage as the Italian, Ethiopian, Israeli, Iranian, or any other community does. That’s how pluralistic societies work.

[FactaNV]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

If we started banning every national flag whose current government someone dislikes, half the flags in this city would have to come down. The flag belongs to the Eritrean people and their 30-year struggle for independence, the community has the exact same right to show pride in their heritage as the Italian, Ethiopian, Israeli, Iranian, or any other community does. That’s how pluralistic societies work.

Its the flag of the country dubbed the "North Korea of Africa" who are major state sponsors of terror and enslave most of their adult population in permanent conscription on the pain og death for deserting. They're basically in a league of their own. Im in a position at work where I deal with Eritrean refugees often, if you heard the stories of what that state is like youd be hollering from the rooftops thwt this government needs to be toppled and its leaders nuremberged. Rope included.

[Outlandish18]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

Mexican bakery had window broken so many times they replaced it with some painted art work on plywood. I walk to P&M to those places 1x month and never a pleasant experience. I invite co-workers to join me and none have returned a 2nd time, they love the food but not stepping around people on sidewalk or seeing zombies walking in the streets or being asked 3x for $. Truly a sad state, I hope we see change in the area and with humanity overall

Hopefully, Marketlands and 228 King Street will spur growth in the area. More people in the area will attract investors.

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by FactaNV

Its the flag of the country dubbed the "North Korea of Africa" who are major state sponsors of terror and enslave most of their adult population in permanent conscription on the pain og death for deserting. They're basically in a league of their own. Im in a position at work where I deal with Eritrean refugees often, if you heard the stories of what that state is like youd be hollering from the rooftops thwt this government needs to be toppled and its leaders nuremberged. Rope included.

I understand where you’re coming from - the Eritrean regime’s indefinite policies are crimes against humanity, and the refugees you work with have lived the nightmare, obviously it’s why they risked their lives to flee. But the flag isn’t a salute to the current regime; it’s the national flag that represents the 30-year independence struggle and the identity most Eritreans, including almost all the refugees, still cherish. For the diaspora, flying it is about pride in being Eritrean, not endorsement of the dictatorship—just as Russians, Iranians, or Cubans fly theirs while (some) despise their governments. The Eritrean community of Winnipeg, the very people behind this building have their flag proudly displayed on their web and Facebook pages, it’s a symbol thst represents them as a people and their children born here. The flag will endure long into the future outliving this current regime. Taking it down wouldn’t hurt the dictator in Asmara one bit — it would only hurt the refugees and families who have a new place to call home. Next time you’re in a position to interact with an Eritrean refugee ask them what their flag represents to them personally, I’m sure you’ll be surprised.

[wags_in_the_peg]

Originally Posted by Outlandish18

Hopefully, Marketlands and 228 King Street will spur growth in the area. More people in the area will attract investors.

^100% agreed and hope it does but similar sentences have been said for Portage Place, MTS Centre, etc

[KnickKnack]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

^100% agreed and hope it does but similar sentences have been said for Portage Place, MTS Centre, etc

Well in the case of the MTS centre, I’d say it did indeed attract investment to the area even if it was slow to pay off in that respect.

[neutroniks]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

Mexican bakery had window broken so many times they replaced it with some painted art work on plywood. I walk to P&M to those places 1x month and never a pleasant experience. I invite co-workers to join me and none have returned a 2nd time, they love the food but not stepping around people on sidewalk or seeing zombies walking in the streets or being asked 3x for $. Truly a sad state, I hope we see change in the area and with humanity overall

Yeah. We walk from the East Exchange and pass through city hall and it does start to get dicey. We try to support them as often as we can because they're the most kindest and resilient people we've met. I hope they stay and anchor down the area.

[neutroniks]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

^100% agreed and hope it does but similar sentences have been said for Portage Place, MTS Centre, etc

The pay off around MTS Centre has been slow, but it's been making strides. Need more people other than True North investing in downtown, and hopefully after the Portage Place reno + the Pan Am Clinic, that all changes for the better. Plus the Boyd Building is finally getting renovated. Medical Arts building is a residential tower now. The offices across the RBC convention centre is residential now. I'd like to think we're trending in the right direction.

[drew]

In my observations walking to and from work, there has been a noticeable increase in pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks along Portage since the buses were re-routed. This would be the non-zombie type pedestrian I am referring to.

Also, the Main Street sketch doesn't really hit until City Hall and points North. People begging or asking for money is so ubiquitous downtown, it doesn't even register for me anymore.

[Luisito]

Drove through Chinatown earlier, noticed something is being built where the old Shanghai building used to be. Anyone know what's going up there?? What ever it is I hope it means a revival of Chinatown.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by Luisito

Drove through Chinatown earlier, noticed something is being built where the old Shanghai building used to be. Anyone know what's going up there?? What ever it is I hope it means a revival of Chinatown.

Shanghai Residence is located at the former site of the Shanghai Restaurant at 232 King St., which has sat vacant for more than a decade 7 Floors. designed by Ray Wan

[Luisito]

Originally Posted by BAKGUY

Shanghai Residence is located at the former site of the Shanghai Restaurant at 232 King St., which has sat vacant for more than a decade 7 Floors. designed by Ray Wan

It's going to be residential? Interesting......I wonder if they will have commercial space at street level?

Thanks for the reply.

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by Luisito

Drove through Chinatown earlier, noticed something is being built where the old Shanghai building used to be. Anyone know what's going up there?? What ever it is I hope it means a revival of Chinatown.

Check page one of this thread for development updates.

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Shanghai Tower
Location: 232 King Street
Developers: Winnipeg Chinatown Development Corporation
Architect: Raymond S.C. Wan Architect
Status: Development Permit
Documents: VARIANCE: 24-277953/B - January 20, 2025
Media: -
Description: The proposed development at King Street, between Pacific and Alexander Avenues in the heart of Chinatown, is a 7-storey, 54-unit multi-family and multi-use building. It features a daycare space, 14 affordable units, and 15 units that are rent geared to income. An accessory parking area with loading spaces, accessible parking, and 13 small car spaces is located under the building and screened by active ground floor uses, including the daycare and a multi-purpose room along King Street. Approximately half of the frontage on Pacific and Alexander Avenues is occupied by the building, with the remaining portion of Alexander Avenue designated for a private plaza and Pacific Avenue featuring a fenced daycare play area. This development is a recipient of the Housing Accelerator Fund Capital Grant Incentive.
Permits: #25-110256 DP-2025-04-01, Permit. Development Permit Application for a proposed 57,081 sq. ft. seven-storey 54-unit multi-family dwelling, including a 1,464 sq. ft. Daycare Use and a multi-purpose room on the main floor.

[trueviking]

I sure miss the Shanghai. 131c.

[Sheepish]

I sure miss the Nanking!

[James Bond Agent 007]

Good god, I hope they don't overturn this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-winnipeg-downtown-development-9.6996681

[Luisito]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Check page one of this thread for development updates.

Thank you for the reply Wpg_guy.

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

Good god, I hope they don't overturn this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-winnipeg-downtown-development-9.6996681

It is really expensive and pretty obtrusive.

Seems weird to require it on big streets and downtown. My guess is there are far fewer birds there than in neighbourhoods.

[James Bond Agent 007]

Originally Posted by trueviking

It is really expensive and pretty obtrusive.

Seems weird to require it on big streets and downtown. My guess is there are far fewer birds there than in neighbourhoods.

Not all of them are intrusive, it depends on the pattern you use.

I put some on one of my kitchen windows several years ago and they absolutely work. It's even one of the more intrusive patterns but it's not really that bad.

And no it's not that expensive. And even if it was, it would be worth it. In the US, window collisions kill a billion birds a year.

A Simple Window Treatment Drastically Cuts Bird Collisions at a Chicago Landmark

On a warm morning this past October, Dave Willard, the re­tired bird collections manager for Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, walked briskly along a glassy façade on the Lake Michigan shoreline looking for fallen birds. The building made of glass is McCormick Place, the convention center infamous to birders as the place where nearly 1,000 migrating birds met their deaths on Oct. 5, 2023.

Willard has taken walks like this on nearly every morning during migration seasons for the last 40 years, document­ing birds that crash into the building’s windows. He typically collects nearly 1,000 dead birds at McCormick Place over the course of a year, with most mortalities coming during fall migra­tion. This past autumn, however, Wil­lard says he found only 48 dead birds.

The difference appears to be the tiny white circles spaced every two inches along the entirety of McCormick Place’s 120,000 square feet of glassy surface. The markers were applied as part of a $1.2 million project last summer con­ducted by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates McCormick Place, to avoid another avian catastrophe.