Winnipeg Construction X

[ColdRain&Snow]

Also, I have seen some letters going out confirming Housing Accelerator Fund money for certain projects. Seems like most of the money will be going to affordable housing projects. I think we will see an announcement about the first round of HAF funding ($25 million) in the next few days.

[FactaNV]

Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

Also, I have seen some letters going out confirming Housing Accelerator Fund money for certain projects. Seems like most of the money will be going to affordable housing projects. I think we will see an announcement about the first round of HAF funding ($25 million) in the next few days.

Can you link those letters?

[bomberjet]

It's interesting this development on St Annes at the Perimeter basically is going urban style with CRU's fronting St Anne's. Will add some businesses to that zone as right now it's pretty bleak.

http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/perm...240924(RM)RC-6

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by bon_vivant

^ It's great to see the mayor lighting fires under people's butts at city hall. Giving them, you know, goals and stuff. It must feel so foreign to them.

Yes, he's impressed my quite a bit. He seems committed to meat-and-potatoes developments that actually benefit the city as a whole.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by pspeid

Yes, he's impressed my quite a bit. He seems committed to meat-and-potatoes developments that actually benefit the city as a whole.

I have to say he's been a lot better as a mayor than I expected. Credit where credit is due.

[bon_vivant]

Originally Posted by borkborkbork

I have to say he's been a lot better as a mayor than I expected. Credit where credit is due.

Agreed. He's dusting off the cobwebs and creating focus and alignment—with tangible results.

[ColdRain&Snow]

Originally Posted by FactaNV

Can you link those letters?

Unfortunately the letters are confidential so I cannot share them. But there should be a public announcement about the first round of HAF funding any day now.

[FactaNV]

Originally Posted by ColdRain&Snow

Unfortunately the letters are confidential so I cannot share them. But there should be a public announcement about the first round of HAF funding any day now.

Huzzah

[bomberjet]

There's lots of confidential stuff that is floated on here. Just need to keep your anonymity while releasing just enough nuggets of information!

[xubiqtss]

Architects and planners involved should be ashamed of this.

[drew]

^ I dunno. I find some of that repurposing of relics from demo'd buildings a bit cheesy and cluttered to be honest.

The real shame should be that most of the buildings these bits came from were demo'd in the first place.

[xubiqtss]

Originally Posted by drew

^ I dunno. I find some of that repurposing of relics from demo'd buildings a bit cheesy and cluttered to be honest.

The real shame should be that most of the buildings these bits came from were demo'd in the first place.

There is no imperative to reuse the pieces in the new park--although spolia and historical palimpsest are responsible for some of the most beautiful moments in the built environment--but to demolish them as any other garbage shows an ignorance and disregard for our own history.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by xubiqtss

Architects and planners involved should be ashamed of this.

I agree.
We need to know, Why was it not saved for a later development or repurposed? Ans..Who do we vice a complaints to?

[1ajs]

the apartment block on the bottom left burned to the ground did it not?

and who ever is designing the park should get shit for not insuracing these were saved not trashed

[davequanbury]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

the apartment block on the bottom left burned to the ground did it not?

and who ever is designing the park should get shit for not insuracing these were saved not trashed

Devon court was at Edmonton and Broadway and was demoed for a parking lot. The one that burned was the Strathcona at the corner of Broadway and Main.

[trueviking]

I’m working on a project that would have been perfect for that cast iron column.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by trueviking

I’m working on a project that would have been perfect for that cast iron column.

And the Forks has lots of similar stone architectural salvage integrated into the outdoors (e.g., around the Parks Canada play area). It feels like there would have been options if anyone had cared to consider them.

I am also very skeptical of this project as a whole.

Yes, Air Canada Window Park has become a hub of the drug trade etc. Yes, it doesn't feel particularly safe.

But the premise that it was something about the park's design or the neglect of the site that caused it? That it's because the design isn't "permeable" enough from the street, or the tree crowns are too low, or whatever Scatliff+Miller pinned the problems on? And that it can be cleaned up with better design?

I don't buy it.

[bon_vivant]

I'm 99.9% sure that a different design won't fix the problem. New furniture, same tenants.

[ColdRain&Snow]

Originally Posted by borkborkbork

And the Forks has lots of similar stone architectural salvage integrated into the outdoors (e.g., around the Parks Canada play area). It feels like there would have been options if anyone had cared to consider them.

I am also very skeptical of this project as a whole.

Yes, Air Canada Window Park has become a hub of the drug trade etc. Yes, it doesn't feel particularly safe.

But the premise that it was something about the park's design or the neglect of the site that caused it? That it's because the design isn't "permeable" enough from the street, or the tree crowns are too low, or whatever Scatliff+Miller pinned the problems on? And that it can be cleaned up with better design?

I don't buy it.

Yeah I agree, it's a completely pointless project. Just let homeless people hang out there and spend the money on actually fixing homelessness.

[drew]

Putting a building on this lot is the best option.

IIRC Air Canada created this problem for themselves by requiring this lot to be empty so the windows on their new building had a "view".