WINNIPEG | Projects and Development

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Address: 236 Carlton St Winnipeg, MB
Location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/23...!4d-97.1452369
Developer: True North Real Estate Development (TNRED) & The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company
Architect: Architecture49
Budget: $130-million
Completion: targeted 2023
News source: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bu...511246162.html

Wawanesa partnering with TNRED to build North American headquarters in fifth tower at True North Square
by Krista Sinaisky / June 13th, 2019

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, Canada’s largest mutual insurer founded in Manitoba in 1896, is partnering with True North Real Estate Development (TNRED) to build its new North American headquarters at True North Square. Wawanesa will be the sole office tenant in a new state-of-the-art, purpose-built office building, to be located at the southwest corner of Carlton Street and Graham Avenue in downtown Winnipeg immediately next to the Sutton Place Hotel & Residences, adjacent to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB), and directly across from the plaza at True North Square.

Wawanesa’s signature building will feature 19 floors and 300,000 square feet of state-of-the-art offices and collaborative spaces with expansive views of True North Square and Winnipeg’s skyline. Equipped with an extensive suite of amenities, the building will accommodate the needs of Wawanesa as a most discerning and leading Canadian mutual insurance company. As a forward-thinking workplace environment, it will also include soaring lobby spaces infused with natural light as well as townhall spaces with direct views into True North Square.
https://www.truenorthsquare.com/news/wawanesa/

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Smith Street Lofts
Location: 185 Smith St Winnipeg, MB
Developer: Edison Properties
Architect(s) : MMP Architects Inc.
Construction Manager: Akman Construction Ltd.
Status: U/C
Description: Former social housing complex being retrofitted to mix of 250 market-rate rentals and affordable units, renovations expected to be completed in 2021
Media: Smith Street tower will 'look like a very different building'








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10/27/2019

11/03/2019

05/09/2020

June/July 2020

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Bill and Helen Norrie Library
Location: Cambridge Street and Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB
Developer: City of Winnipeg
Architects: LM Architectural Group
Contractor: Boretta Construction
Size: 14,000 Sq Ft
Cost: $6.3M
Status: completion date in late 2020
Media: Proposed design calls for City’s first non-gendered, universal washroom
Description: The new library will be northwest of the Pan Am Pool, near the intersection of Poseidon Bay and Cambridge Street. It will take up 14,000 square feet in the Grant Park campus and will replace the existing River Heights Library at 1520 Corydon Ave. The new library is set to open in 2021.

The City of Winnipeg revealed its design for the Bill and Helen Norrie Library, to be built at the corner of Cambridge Street and Grant Avenue, as part of the Grant Park Recreation Campus.









https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ou...3Qw7-iuIq6Jq_s

10/29/2019

05/01/2020

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Phase 1: 18,600 SF of office/retail space in the James Ave Pumping Station Building. 100% leased. Spring 2018 occupancy.

Phase 2: 30 high end rental apartments on Waterfront Drive available Winter 2020.

Phase 3: 70 rental apartments. Summer 2020 occupancy.




@j_thorsteinson{ Newish renders of the James Ave. pumping station reno/addn by @546arch which just got a @CdnArch Award of Excellence.
https://twitter.com/j_thorsteinson/s...37762476728321















Phase 2:


Interior of pump house:








Source: Tim Hughes (@tim_hughes1) on Instagram

some images of phase one.

Pumped up
After many failed redevelopment attempts, 'breathtaking' James Avenue Pumping Station welcomes first tenants
By: Bill Redekop | Posted: 04/16/2019 7:00 PM

Alston Properties came up with a plan that included purchasing lots on either side of the pumping station to locate a four-storey and a six-storey rental apartment. The apartments will be elevated off the ground so as not to block the pump house facade or view from inside.

That provided some of the economics. Then it had to find a single tenant in need of 10,000 square feet of office space. The office space is built in the rafters, held up by the building’s steel girders.

It would be too expensive to try to subdivide the space into multiple compartments. But the site was ideal for Think.Shift and its 55 employees.

The first phase of redeveloping the pump house cost $3 million. The entire project once apartment blocks are completed will come to $22 million, Alston said.

Both the building and the equipment inside are protected as a designated heritage site. Amid the giant steel wheels, there are also cranes running along horizontal beams with hooks and chains dangling down. They were used to move the giant wheels into place and left behind in case equipment ever needed servicing. The geared wheels weigh up to eight tonnes.

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08/16/2019

@justDarylD Stud walls going up at James Ave Pumphouse.
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8/28/2019

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Aug 30, 2019

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

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09/17/2019

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Sep 19, 2019

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

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Sep 20, 2019

Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Definitely.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/661751...82242/sizes/h/


https://www.flickr.com/photos/661751...62458/sizes/l/
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Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Oct 20 2019

Originally Posted by headhorse

windows going in



from https://twitter.com/HolzPrefab

10/27/2019

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

11/03/2019:

01/04/2020

September 2020

Nov 2020 phase 3:

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653 McMillan
https://www.google.com/maps/place/65...7!4d-97.150587


584 Gertrude
https://www.google.com/maps/place/58...!4d-97.1483395
Paragon Design Build

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByC97DrgYAE/

[Elkhanan1]

Nice projects!

[Wpg_Guy]

Lobby renovation

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Address: 139 Notre Dame St
Location:https://www.google.ca/maps/place/139...!4d-97.1253026
Architects: https://www.2architecture.ca/
Status: Proposed


Address: Dumoulin and Langevin (227 Provencher Boulevard)
Location:https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.89379...7i13312!8i6656
Architects: https://www.2architecture.ca/
Status: Proposed
60-70 Unit 4 storey residential



Address: 235 Dumoulin St
Location:https://www.google.ca/maps/place/235...!4d-97.1200569
Architects: https://www.2architecture.ca/
Status: Proposed
2 Storey townhouse, 6 1000 sq2 units


Media: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...-developpement

(RESIDENCE LANGEVIN)
Address: 210 rue Masson
Location:https://www.google.ca/maps/place/210...5!4d-97.120443
Architects: https://www.ft3.ca/
Developer: Towers Realty Group
Status: Proposed
Media: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...oniface-projet
60 unit, 4 storey residential. According to the plan, the three facades of the former 1902 Francophone Normal School will be preserved.

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Portage Place Redevelopment
Location: 393 Portage Ave
Developer: Starlight Investments
Status: Development stage, Pending sale of property
Description: $300 million investment to redevelop the downtown mall, including the possibility of constructing student housing above the mall.

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ZÜ
Location: 160 Osborne St
Developer: Private Pension Partners
Architect(s) : BLDG architecture office inc.
Status: Development stage
Construction Manager: Unknown
Description: 3 new buildings at the site of the (soon to be demolished) Osborne Village Inn. All three buildings will have covered and underground parking and about 14,000 square feet of combined commercial space at street level.

• 160 Osborne St, a six-storey,mixed-use, multi-family apartment building with 100 units

• 424 and 425 Wardlaw Ave. two four-storey, mixed-use, multi-family complexes with 60 units each

05/05/2020
05/05/2020

05/09/2020

[Wpg_Guy]

Winnipeg Construction Summary

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BOXCAR ALLEY at Union Station
Location: Union Station/The Forks, Winnipeg, MB
Developer: The Forks North Portage Partnership
Architects: PUBLIC CITY
Status: Proposed
Description: As a part of the Railside Residential Village at The Forks development, The Box Car Alley design playfully highlights the space under the CN rail line at the Forks, a space that is currently under-utilized and overlooked. The project seeks to brighten the peripheries of The Forks, revitalizing an important public space through public engagement, local business promotion and creative opportunities for artists and visitors.

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The Forks National Heritage Site Visitor Centre
Location: 45 Forks Market Road, The Forks National Historic Site, Winnipeg, MB
Developer: The Forks North Portage Partnership
Architect(s): 1x1 architecture inc.
Size: 7,653 sq.ft.
Status: Proposed
Description: Due to the requirement by Parks Canada to not increase the built form on the protected site, the proposed Visitor Centre is located at the site of the existing orientation node, and will renovate the existing washroom / office building which consists of a circular structure constructed of tyndall stone plinths carrying a wood trellis. A major east-west axis cuts through the National Historic Site. From the west, this axis starts at the dome of Union Station, situated at the end of the Broadway promenade, continues through the centre of the orientation node and culminates at the Saint Boniface Cathedral-Basilica Parish on the east side of the Red River. This axis symbolically connects St. Boniface to Winnipeg’s downtown. The design intent was not only to maintain this axis, but to enhance it, thus the Visitor Centre was split into two buildings.

The Forks National Historic Site of Canada is a 9-acre park situated at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is dedicated to preserving and presenting the 6,000-year history of human presence and activity on the site. The site, located along the Red River, is adjacent to the Forks Market and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

The primary cladding material in the design is wood that is treated with a process that polymerizes the wood to resist water and insects, and will develop a natural silver finish as it weathers. The second cladding material is local Manitoba Tyndall stone that is already featured prominently throughout the site. All other materials have been selected to be durable and low maintenance.

[Wpg_Guy]

Gregg Building (Residential Conversion)
Location: 52 Albert Street, Winnipeg, MB
Developers: Knysh Construction
Status: U/C
Media:
Description: Unoccupied for over a decade plans are to keep the first two floors as commercial space, while floors three, four, and five will be potentially converted into 16 residential spaces.

'Rock-solid' reincarnation
117-year-old Gregg Building has a new owner, soon a new lease on life
Solomon Israel, Photography by Mike Deal
Posted: 08/12/2019 3:00 AM

The Gregg Building, a 117-year-old Exchange District warehouse that has sat empty for years, will be reborn sometime in the 2020s as a mixed commercial-residential space.

"The building itself is rock-solid, and I think there’s potential there," said Jay Knysh, owner of Winnipeg’s Knysh Construction, who bought the designated heritage building at 52 Albert St. earlier this year.

Land title records show the property changed hands for $885,000. The four-storey Romanesque-revival warehouse was designed by architect James H. Cadham for silk importer G.R. Gregg and Company. The brick structure was built in 1902, with a fifth storey added in 1922.

Knysh estimates the redevelopment project will take three years. Workers are currently cleaning up the building’s interior, reclaiming as much original material as they can.

Knysh plans to convert the third, fourth and fifth floors of the building into mid-market rental apartments, perhaps ranging between 750 square feet and 1,400 square feet in size. That might work out to four, six or eight units per floor.

"I certainly want them to be beautiful," Knysh said.

"I want the quality to be something that I would live in myself, and I may in fact (do so). But we also want to make it affordable for the community and for the area."

Knysh plans to maintain the commercial space on the Gregg Building’s ground floor, which was previously home to the Vault Salon and Spa. The second floor — which still holds a mostly intact day spa complete with a sauna and treatment rooms — could remain as commercial space or become more apartments, depending on demand.

Especially enticing to Knysh is the building’s original passenger elevator. It’s too small to meet modern building codes, but he’d like to remove it and put it on display in appreciation of "the old ways of how things work."

"It’s not just a square box, it’s got shape and contour and just... it’s got a personality," said Knysh of the manually operated lift.

The Gregg Building is also home to two vaults. The wall of the ground-level vault was reimagined as a brick-arched coffee bar during the building’s salon era, Knysh said, but he has yet to discover what’s sealed in the basement vault.

Knysh’s redevelopment plan for the Gregg Building has the full support of local non-profit Heritage Winnipeg, said executive director Cindy Tugwell, who expects the redevelopment to help reinvigorate Albert Street.

"And someone like Jay (Knysh) is exactly who we want to own this building, because he wants to do the right thing — he’s got to make some money, I mean, everybody does if they’re going to make a go of the building — but he wants to be part of the community, wants to work with Heritage Winnipeg, wants to work with the city," Tugwell said.

The Gregg Building and the neighbouring Royal Albert Hotel both deteriorated under the previous ownership of Winnipeg businessman Daren Jorgenson, Tugwell added. The Gregg Building’s next owner, who lived in British Columbia, gutted the building’s interior but didn’t engage with the Exchange District community, according to Tugwell.

"I think there’s a difference between owning a building and putting your blood, sweat and tears into it... Heritage buildings, especially in a national historic site, should not be treated just as regular real estate," she said.

Knysh wants Winnipeggers to know that the Gregg Building is more than just a property to him.

"I care about the Exchange, and I care about the architecture and the heritage of this building, enough so that I wanted to put my money where my mouth was, and put some energy into it and literally put some passion into it," Knysh said.

"Being local, I’m proud of that… When it’s all said and done, I want to look back on it and just be very proud of what we’ve done."
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The new owner of the Gregg Building has the full support of Heritage Winnipeg. Jay Knysh ‘is exactly who we want to own the building,‘ said executive director Cindy Tugwell.

The interior of the Gregg Building.

An abandoned day spa sits intact on the second floor of the Gregg Building.

The vault on the first floor of the Gregg Building.

An antique passenger elevator inside the Gregg Building, which new owner Jay Knysh would like to preserve and put on display.

A detail on the gate of the old passenger elevator.

Antique metal ceiling trim inside the Gregg Building.

An interior staircase in the Gregg Building, which is being cleaned by workers before redevelopment begins.

Windows with stained glass detailing were left behind by a previous tenant.

A worker cleans the interior of the Gregg Building.



Vault door that has been modified to be used as a regular door.

One of the murals sitting on the rooftop of the Gregg Building, being dwarfed by some of the taller downtown buildings.

Murals adorn the structures on the Gregg Building rooftop.

Part of the downtown skyline serves as a backdrop to the Gregg Building rooftop murals.

Some of the brickwork is in need of reparations.

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175 ST. ANNE’S RD
Location: 175 ST. ANNE’S RD, Winnipeg, MB
Developers: Alia Homes
Architect(s) : Otto Cheng Architects
Status: PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
Proposed mixed-use building with 30 multi-family residential units and 5 commercial units

[IMBY]

Thanks so, so much for the updates! Well-appreciated!

[Wpg_Guy]

703 St Annes Road
Location: 703 St Annes Road, Winnipeg, MB
Developers: ALSTON PROPERTIES LTD.
Architect(s) : AtLRG Architecture
Status: Completed Dec 2019
Description: 33 new rental apartments located on the banks of The Seine River in Winnipeg








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Oct 25th 2019:

[Nite]

Thanks for post #141 for the great update

[Wpg_Guy]

Southwest Bus Rapid Transitway (Stage 2)
Cost: $467.3 million (estimate)
Description: The Southwest Transitway is a dedicated high-speed roadway for buses, physically separated from the regular street system linking Downtown to the southwest part of the city. Buses operate at speeds up to 80 km/h, free of any other traffic, providing very fast, reliable service. Stage 1 of the Southwest Transitway, completed in 2012, is 3.6 kilometres in length and currently runs from Queen Elizabeth Way & Stradbrook Avenue to Pembina Highway and Jubilee Avenue. Stage 2 includes a 7.6 kilometre southerly extension of the existing infrastructure from Pembina
Highway and Jubilee Avenue to the University of Manitoba. When completed in spring 2020, the Southwest Transitway will operate from Downtown to the neighbourhoods of southwest Winnipeg, including the University of Manitoba.
Estimated Completion: 2020


Stage 1 Complete

Stage 2:


Overhead Shots of the Southwest Transitway Construction Activities from June 2019:
















https://winnipegtransit.com/en/major...ay/#tab-photos

Stadium Station, at the end of the stage 2 line at University of Manitoba's IG Field, was completed in 2017.






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Plaza Station




Bridge over tracks betwen Plaza and Chervier


Chervier Station


Artwork and Training Bus at Clarence Station


Beaumont Station and Teapot





Training Bus at bridge over McGillvray


Markham Station


Traffic Lights along the bike path aside the Transitway.

Source: trebor204
https://cptdb.ca/topic/11826-southwe...comment=873139

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Smartpark Innovation Hub
Location: 100 Innovation Dr, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Architect(s): Cibinel Architecture Ltd
Developer: University of Manitoba
Status: Complete June 2019
Cost: $44.5 M
Size: 75,000-square-foot 4-storey
Media: Open for business; Smartpark Innovation Hub is where U of M's research gets commercialized
Description: Smartpark Innovation Hub is a central gathering place for the Smartpark community, for province-wide university researchers, and for the local technology industry. The facility will support commercialization and professional services, encouraging partnerships to form that will drive the creation of new technologies, ultimately growing the number of local start-up companies. The 75,000-square-foot building is made up of a ground floor atrium, meeting rooms, a multipurpose room with 4K video walls, and a food service area, as well as two lab spaces. The second, third and fourth floors are tenant office spaces, with the fourth floor containing a Collision Corridor, where tenants can come together and network in the shared space. Tenants include: Bold Commerce, North Forge Technology Exchange, Futurpreneur, Cibus Canada, Pembina Trails Early College School, the University of Manitoba Technology Transfer Office, 151 Research and Backswath Management.