Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Fort Rouge

[esquire]

^ The City is doing it passively and it's probably not going to happen in our lifetimes. But really, the City should just scrap the plan and allow buildings to be built right up to the sidewalk again.

[CoryB]

The fire that burned down the one building on Osborne leading to the depressing strip mall set back off the street front is one of the worst things to happen in Winnipeg, right up there with the fire that destroyed the Albert St business block.

[esquire]

^ To be fair, that building would have sucked even if it wasn't set back. It was built in the late 90s right when care and concern for proper urban design in this city was pretty much at its low point, hence the single storey stucco strip mall design. It's a minor miracle that the city didn't let someone build a drive-thru McDonald's or some such there.

[trueviking]

I've seen that setback documented somewhere...cant remember where...I believe you can see its effect in south Osborne between the village and the older area.

I didn't realize that why the pizza strip mall was set back....that is mind blowing. I wish I did have documentation of that....It must be in the zoning book, no?

I recently came across the same issue on Redwood....the site was reduced by a lane and nobody had any idea until it went to the city.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by trueviking

I didn't realize that why the pizza strip mall was set back....that is mind blowing. I wish I did have documentation of that....It must be in the zoning book, no?

Wow. I'm not in the business certainly but I remember hearing about this. Also, like you, thought it was stupid. Yeah, let's do this all the way down Osborne. What is the exact plan? Who the hell is running this show? Is this simply city employees working on a decades old plan?

All questions for the people alive now for sure.

[wardlow]

The City’s Transportation Master Plan has St. Mary’s Road (between Marion and St. Anne’s) as a road that will be widened in the medium-term, but nothing about Osborne, Stafford or others. I don’t think the zoning by-law would have anything about this… For all we know, these widenings were first dreamed up in metropolitan plans from the 1950s, when they thought Winnipeg would have a million people by 1991 and the city would look like an at-grade version of The Jetsons. The Transportation Master Plan says in very vague terms that the City will start moving away from road widenings, yet these plans seem to still live on. Or maybe they don’t. No one knows what the plans for our streets are until someone applies to rezone a property.

Amazing to think there’s plans for this and this to eventually disappear. These are some of the best urban places in the south end, and they already suffer from too much overwhelming traffic.

[WolselyMan]

Winnipeg must be professionally protected from stupidity such as this. A city where the urban core has to double as a central crossing point for all the major cross town traffic arteries is FUNDAMENTALLY incompatible with the vision of Winnipeg one of the great population centers of Canada. With this we are left with two potentials for the mindset of our city planners. 1. They're too incompetent to have realized this by now. Or 2. They're not aiming for Winnipeg to be the most optimum successful version of itself, but is content with viewing Winnipeg as nothing more than another small sleepy mid-western city that should function as nothing more than a place for bored educated young people to grow up until they can move away and start a career in one of the "real" Canadian cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, & Edmonton. (Or god forbid Regina or Saskatoon!)

In which case, they're still incompetent.

[lilwayne]

widening osborne village area would be nonsensical if they should do anything its ban parking on the streets. and create a few large parkades in the area. widening the streets on osborne village would ruin its urban feel it would start feeling more like a suburban street or one of our major roads like pembina and lagimodier.. widening st marys, kenaston etc makes far more sense..

and the view from central park of the hydro bldg and true north square on a bright sunny day looks amazing.. almost like your in a different city

its obvious that skycity is a no go so i hope someone else comes around and purchases that surface lot from fortress because with all thier pending lawsuits thier going to need to start liquidating thier assets.. thats prime spot for development.. i think someone should take over this project because clearly theres enough demand for a large condo like this to proceed.

[trueviking]

That new apartment building for provencher had to get a variance because the back lane has a future widening plan. They fought against it. Would take every building on provencher to be replaced to widen it. Stupid.

[borkborkbork]

I guess this is more Fort Rouge than OV, but the CBC building on Warsaw right next to the entrance to the busway is going to be turned into a brewery with a taproom. Nothing particularly exciting visually (good news, bigger windows; bad news, masonry building to be clad with metal).

Item 10 on the agenda here:

http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/View...onId=&InitUrl=

[LilZebra]

^^^

OMG, I better snap a picture of it before the signage is perm. removed.

One of those to do list kind of thingies.

Words of wisdom for life: Be the Shark. Seize the moment to take a photogaph (opportunity) because it may be gone next week.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by LilZebra

^^^

OMG, I better snap a picture of it before the signage is perm. removed.

One of those to do list kind of thingies.

Words of wisdom for life: Be the Shark. Seize the moment to take a photogaph (opportunity) because it may be gone next week.

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/479...!4d-97.1421249

[LilZebra]

Oh right, I can go back to 2009 and just download it

I forgot that is an option nowadays. I come from a time before the Internet where if you didn't capture something on film and it disappeared it could not be immortalized or proven it even existed.

[esquire]

What did the CBC use that building for?

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by esquire

What did the CBC use that building for?

Studio to Transmitter equipment. Says on the building.

[cllew]

Originally Posted by esquire

What did the CBC use that building for?

Their transmission tower service group. With the introduction of Digital TV resulting in the retirement of the Analog towers the number of rural re-transmitters they have to look after has gone down drastically so they probably don't need the space they had for the trucks and parts.

I am not sure if the Winnipeg transmission group also looks after the NW Ontario towers.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by cllew

Their transmission tower service group. With the introduction of Digital TV resulting in the retirement of the Analog towers the number of rural re-transmitters they have to look after has gone down drastically so they probably don't need the space they had for the trucks and parts.

I am not sure if the Winnipeg transmission group also looks after the NW Ontario towers.

They no longer broadcast in NW Ontario except maybe in Thunder Bay. Stupidest decision ever made by the CBC. They could still reach all of Canada if they wanted to and add Newsworld and The Documentary Channel on the sub channels. They could make a big impact on this country if they did a little work to get there. Someone should get the ear of the new president or who is the lead now.

https://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_w...90383c0c5510de

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

They no longer broadcast in NW Ontario except maybe in Thunder Bay. Stupidest decision ever made by the CBC. They could still reach all of Canada if they wanted to and add Newsworld and The Documentary Channel on the sub channels. They could make a big impact on this country if they did a little work to get there. Someone should get the ear of the new president or who is the lead now.

https://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_w...90383c0c5510de

Unnecessary waste of tax money.

Why should we spend billions standing up digital antennas everywhere for the few rural people who refuse to get a satellite service from Bell or Shaw?

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by h0twired

Unnecessary waste of tax money.

Why should we spend billions standing up digital antennas everywhere for the few rural people who refuse to get a satellite service from Bell or Shaw?

Yes. That's what a public broadcaster is supposed to do. Also, as technology progresses, pretty sure it doesn't have to be BILLIONS.

[buzzg]

Is anyone else scared that this OV streetscaping is going ahead without ANY of the designs being made public, or even seen on SSP first? All the sidewalk lighting has been removed so it's gotta be happening soon.

Update: the OV BIZ let their website expire.

https://www.osbornevillage.com/