Winnipeg Construction VIII

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by h0twired

Tom Jackson

Lol Yes, Tom Jackson. Thanks.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by esquire

Part of the plan is a 500-seat performing space for the music faculty:

It'll be nice for the U of M to have something like that... unless I'm forgetting something, I don't think it has a proper music auditorium.

I can't recall either, a former band mate attended the Faculty of Music some time ago and I visited him thier. I'm sure small practice/performance space was available but nothing as large in scope as you've mentioned. 500 seat hall with an orcestra pit as well, It's all good news, and fitting, as I've found Winnipeg has produced some amazing talents that have attended the Faculty of Muzak.

The whole campus is undergoing a huge re-birth of sorts with more to come..

[Biff]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

This is the Tom Cochrane thing, IIRC.

It is the same site, but different project team.

[CoryB]

Originally Posted by esquire

It'll be nice for the U of M to have something like that... unless I'm forgetting something, I don't think it has a proper music auditorium.

Pretty sure there is a music auditorium in the current School of Music building that includes a pipe organ. The existing space is much smaller than the 500 seats the new hall will have.

[headhorse]

LGC Family Place is done (same architect who is doing Heritage Landing/300 Assiniboine)



from https://www.facebook.com/pages/ft3-A...39623846077342

[tofurkey]

Conceptual redevelopment plan for 1500 Plessis - City engineering building and works yard site.







From City bid page. http://winnipeg.ca/MatMgt/FolderCont...2012&YEAR=2012

[bomberjet]

^ Seen that one a while back. It's mostly just what could be done there. When a developer(s) is actually awarded something, it could look quite different. The main things that will be there are the YMCA and library. They are requirements of the development. Other "for sures" are the ESP and Transcona Blvd. The rest is supposed to be high density residential. So it could be in whatever configuration the developer comes up with.

I still can't get over the ESP ending at Regent like that. Should connect to Plessis... Time to move on I guess....

[esquire]

^ The density is nice and will mesh well with BRT, but the towers-in-a-parking-lot model probably won't create much of a community. Is it really that out of the question to imagine a small grid of streets lined end-to-end with low or medium rise buildings?

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by esquire

Part of the plan is a 500-seat performing space for the music faculty:



It'll be nice for the U of M to have something like that... unless I'm forgetting something, I don't think it has a proper music auditorium.

Eva Clare Hall ... which is much smaller than that. Winnipeg really needs a hall for chamber music, other than churches.

[tofurkey]

Looks like Streetside (Qualico) will be building the next TOD on the east side of Fort Rouge Yards, west of Hugo. Recommendation going to Property Committee to sell them the land for $1.315 million.



Source: http://winnipeg.ca/CLKDMIS/ViewDoc.a...onId=&InitUrl=

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Andy6

Eva Clare Hall ... which is much smaller than that. Winnipeg really needs a hall for chamber music, other than churches.

http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/music/.../evaclare.html

I had no idea... it looks pretty nice.

[1ajs]

[rypinion]

Originally Posted by tofurkey

Source: http://winnipeg.ca/CLKDMIS/ViewDoc.a...onId=&InitUrl=

From that document:

On October 24, 2012, Council concurred in the recommendation of the Executive Policy Committee and adopted in part the following:

“That the subject City property located on the west side of Hugo Street South at Morley Avenue, identified as subject property on Misc. Plan No. 13953 (“subject City property”), be declared surplus to the needs of the City.

That the net proceeds of disposition of the subject City property be allocated to fund all or a portion of the City’s estimated $1,666,680.00 contribution to the capital cost of the Jubilee Rapid Transit Station with the balance, if any, to be funded from the Rapid Transit Infrastructure Reserve Fund.”

Wasn't the Fort Rouge Yards Development/Developer supposed to be paying for and building Jubilee Station? Or are they paying all but this $1.6M (which they'll now apparently be getting from Qualico)?

[Riverman]

Fences are up and an excavator is on site at the former service station lot on Henderson between Green and Linden. Site remediation?

[cllew]

probably, the company that's there right now specializes in that.

They were also there for a short time earlier this summer maybe doing some exploratory work.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Riverman

Fences are up and an excavator is on site at the former service station lot on Henderson between Green and Linden. Site remediation?

I believe this is the second or third time this has happened on that particular site. Henderson is littered with vacant sites which were formerly gas stations.

[Riverman]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Henderson is littered with vacant sites which were formerly gas stations.

There are three.

[Cyro]

Bridgwater Development

Vision
The Neighborhoods of Bridgwater

Winnipeg's newest neighborhood is expanding into the Neighborhoods of Bridgwater with Bridgwater Lakes and Bridgwater Centre.

This beautiful, community has acres of open, green space and mature forest throughout. Your new home will be surrounded by natural beauty and close to:

gorgeous lakes
an extensive network of pathways
interconnected parks
a unique, town centre that will be a walk away from all the residential neighbourhoods
playgrounds
a central fountain
a pedestrian bridge
transit service
future schools


Proposed Renders

Bridgwater Centre
Proposed Multiple Family Dwellings


Proposed Commercial Development


Mixed Use


Lakes

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Bridgwater Lakes


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Bridgwater Forest


Source
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Construction is underway on the first project in Manitoba Housing's back-to-the-future-styled Bridgwater Centre.

Winnipeg's Hilton Homes has begun pouring the foundations for the first of 120 multi-family housing units it will build in the town centre.

1,000 multi-family housing units in the town centre.

Main streets where contiguous rows of buildings, not parking lots, butt up against the sidewalks. Also, commercial buildings with front porches or patios, and outdoor public spaces that include clock towers, plazas, fountains, "shaded, canopied, cantilevered and/or heated walkways" and an abundance of trees, shrubs and flower beds.

"It's looking back to the past for how we develop into the future," Rewniak said at the time. "We're going back to the traditional architectural styles of that era (early 1900s). And it has that walkability aspect, where cars are kind of in the background and the focus is on pedestrians."

WFP

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Riverman

There are three.

1 Between Bunn's Creek and Bonner 2 at Gilmore 3 Green-Linden 4 Oakview-Dunrobin 5 Johnson Ave W

[cllew]

Don't know if I would consider Gilmore as an undeveloped gas station lot, at least it has the semblance of something on it with the drive through ATM.

Numbers 3,4 and 5 are just weed filled lots, the one on Bonner I can't comment on as I don't normally go that far north on Henderson.