Winnipeg Construction X - Page 673

Sheepish · #**13441** Posted **Mar 31, 2025, 8:05 PM**

Thx!

bomberjet · #**13442** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 3:37 PM**

This one at St. James and Wellington looks to be moving forward.
http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/perm...50407(RM)AC-15

Also this thing in the golf course on Shaftesbury. The one which caused great uproar. I think the design is different now. 3 buildings all on top of a common underground parkade.
http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/perm...250402(SM)AC-4

Biff · #**13443** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 4:00 PM**

For anyone who wants to see it

FactaNV · #**13444** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 4:02 PM**

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For anyone who wants to see it

If it was real masonry it'd be a nice design.

Authentic_City · #**13445** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

This one at St. James and Wellington looks to be moving forward.
http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/perm...50407(RM)AC-15

Nice!
I believe this one is at St Matthews and St James?

If only they could build a few more like this on the old Arena/Stadium site, or in the Polo Park area.

Mr Tall Forehead · #**13446** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

For anyone who wants to see it

It would be nice if it fronted at least one of the adjacent streets instead of being surrounded by parking...

Good to see the development along Shaftsbury going ahead - Tuxedo NIMBY's can go pound sand!

Biff · #**13447** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 4:41 PM**

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It would be nice if it fronted at least one of the adjacent streets instead of being surrounded by parking...

I am not 100% certain, but I think this is another project much like Sky Condominiums on Waterfront & Pacific that had site layout issues due to the adjacent substation, limiting the orientation of the building with respect to below grade utilities.

bomberjet · #**13448** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Nice!
I believe this one is at St Matthews and St James?

If only they could build a few more like this on the old Arena/Stadium site, or in the Polo Park area.

Ya that's right, St Matthews.

neutroniks · #**13449** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Nice!
I believe this one is at St Matthews and St James?

If only they could build a few more like this on the old Arena/Stadium site, or in the Polo Park area.

It would be nice if they started The Residences by Polo Park, but I'm under the assumption Shindico is still in the planning phase. Wish they were at least doing below ground stuff like Southwood Circle.

BAKGUY · #**13450** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 10:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by neutroniks

It would be nice if they started The Residences by Polo Park, but I'm under the assumption Shindico is still in the planning phase. Wish they were at least doing below ground stuff like Southwood Circle.

Is this southwood RENDER/proposal or Polo Proposal?

Wpg_Guy · #**13451** Posted **Apr 1, 2025, 11:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by BAKGUY

Is this southwood RENDER/proposal or Polo Proposal?

Polo, old arena/stadium site

The Jabroni · #**13452** Posted **Apr 2, 2025, 10:49 PM**

The new fire hall in Windsor Park is coming online and responding to calls starting tonight. They will have a commissioning ceremony and open house later this spring.

https://www.winnipeg.ca/city-governa...s-windsor-park

Some minor finishing touches needed for the exterior, but it looks great.

Wigs · #**13453** Posted **Apr 3, 2025, 12:56 AM**

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Seeing the original drawings make me very sad and make me think of how defining it would have been to see it built like that instead of what's there right now.

Very nice design proposal.

That would have been kind of a Winnipeg version of Buffalo's Electric Tower (which lacks a clock that the adjacent M&T Bank "Goldome" building has)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/b63uXncgiqqrZRBB8

WinCitySparky · #**13454** Posted **Apr 3, 2025, 5:14 PM**

I wonder how hard the tariff shitshow and subsequent likely recession/worse is going to derail all the buildings planned here.

FactaNV · #**13455** Posted **Apr 3, 2025, 5:35 PM**

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I wonder how hard the tariff shitshow and subsequent likely recession/worse is going to derail all the buildings planned here.

Conversely, there may be a lot of new public money available to keep people working.

Authentic_City · #**13456** Posted **Apr 3, 2025, 5:40 PM**

^Yeah, I'm optimistic that the Feds will pour a lot of money into building up infrastructure and housing. So, who knows, it could potentially lead to a boom of construction, at least in housing and public works.

bomberjet · #**13457** Posted **Apr 3, 2025, 5:50 PM**

We don't really need the US for building materials. Depending upon the industry and such. But all the raw and refined materials are available in Canada, and if not overseas. We already ship steel products in from overseas for example. But that can be corrected in the new market. Construction is rather basic. Steel, concrete, timber. We have all that.

This is the same principle dipshit is trying to enforce on the US, but doing it terribly and for purpose of chaos.

From a financial point of view, what would be different know than the before times. Stock markets? Interest rates? Otherwise if you want to build a tower in downtown Toronto, it's surely not based on tariffs or otherwise from the US.

The Jabroni · #**13458** Posted **Apr 3, 2025, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

We don't really need the US for building materials. Depending upon the industry and such. But all the raw and refined materials are available in Canada, and if not overseas. We already ship steel products in from overseas for example. But that can be corrected in the new market. Construction is rather basic. Steel, concrete, timber. We have all that.

This is the same principle dipshit is trying to enforce on the US, but doing it terribly and for purpose of chaos.

From a financial point of view, what would be different know than the before times. Stock markets? Interest rates? Otherwise if you want to build a tower in downtown Toronto, it's surely not based on tariffs or otherwise from the US.

Looking at the big picture with any of the extra surplus materials we have, raw or manufactured, we might as well use the materials we have and build. We can also export to other markets and so on.

Might as well put that investment into ourselves and mass build everything. Want to twin the Trans-Canada Highway from the Manitoba border through Northwestern Ontario? Let's go! Build a a permanent all-weather highway to Churchill? Let's do it! Open up trade to new markets in Asia and Africa? Go for it!

Although we will need tools and equipment to build, and that could be an issue for certain items. Then again, maybe not?

trueviking · #**13459** Posted **Apr 5, 2025, 3:14 PM**

The biggest impact will come from Canada’s counter tariffs. If all of the proposed tariffs are implemented it will increase costs by 5% or so. Which sounds small but it can be impactful. Steel and aluminum are the big ones right now. I have some suppliers from the states that screwed. Overall in Winnipeg we are reasonably well positioned to weather it. But any increase hurts.

It is true that we have all the raw materials but we don’t make as many of the products. We have aluminum but we don’t make curtain wall as an example. There are only three brick manufacturers in Canada and none west of Toronto. One of the biggest in the states is in Fargo.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/op...riff-headwinds

bomberjet · #**13460** Posted **Apr 5, 2025, 3:17 PM**

To my earlier point. If Carney is really serious about our relationship permanently changing. We need to re-orient ourselves to produce, refine, manufacture building material in Canada and not rely on the cross border trade schemes that exist today.

This takes time I know. And will require subsidies or funding to make changes.

5% is still a hit when you're spending potentially $10's or $100's of millions.