Waiting for Portage Place sale to go through. When it's done, TFNP will divest itself of NP and add waterfront redevelopment into The Forks' mandate.
The Forks will do a great job! They have an excellent team. I wish they could find a way to start planning and working towards the River City vision created by Scatliff + Miller + Murray now.
The Forks will do a great job! They have an excellent team. I wish they could find a way to start planning and working towards the River City vision created by Scatliff + Miller + Murray now.
I'm sure they have been as frustrated at the pace of re-development as many of us have. I agree they have done a good job taking on the enormous task of transforming the city's downtown, bit by bit. Being older than dirt myself, I remember the city prior to The Forks, Waterfront Drive, the arena, etc. Things HAVE improved, and despite the slowness of change, look like they will continue to improve.
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I'm sure they have been as frustrated at the pace of re-development as many of us have. I agree they have done a good job taking on the enormous task of transforming the city's downtown, bit by bit. Being older than dirt myself, I remember the city prior to The Forks, Waterfront Drive, the arena, etc. Things HAVE improved, and despite the slowness of change, look like they will continue to improve.
Sometimes slow change turns out better than fast change.
Centre Village - 575 Balmoral Street
Born: 2010 Died: 2020 - 10 Years old.
Fail: Infill Urban Design.
Architects won numerous awards for their award winning design.
Same architects for 90 Alexander.
I wonder if Alexander will suffer the same fate.
$300 per square foot, 212 apartments, 24 parking spaces. $60,000,000.00
Last edited by Alexander 90; Nov 7, 2020 at 11:54 PM.
Centre Village - 575 Balmoral Street
Born: 2010 Died: 2020 - 10 Years old.
Fail: Infill Urban Design.
Architects won numerous awards for their award winning design.
Same architects for 90 Alexander.
I wonder if Alexander will suffer the same fate.
$300 per square foot, 212 apartments, 24 parking spaces. $60,000,000.00
Probably not because of where it is vs the strip this thing was built on.
"But a city can be smothered by too much reverence for its past. The skyline must keep acquiring new peaks, because the day we consider it complete and untouchable is the day the city begins to die." - Justin Davidson - May 2010 Issue of New York
Centre Village - 575 Balmoral Street
Born: 2010 Died: 2020 - 10 Years old.
Fail: Infill Urban Design.
Architects won numerous awards for their award winning design.
Same architects for 90 Alexander.
I wonder if Alexander will suffer the same fate.
$300 per square foot, 212 apartments, 24 parking spaces. $60,000,000.00
I thought that was low rent or Manitoba Housing built in the 1960s!
Centre Village - 575 Balmoral Street
Born: 2010 Died: 2020 - 10 Years old.
Fail: Infill Urban Design.
Architects won numerous awards for their award winning design.
Same architects for 90 Alexander.
I wonder if Alexander will suffer the same fate.
$300 per square foot, 212 apartments, 24 parking spaces. $60,000,000.00
From what I've read, the reports of this thing's life were greatly exaggerated.
It was never a co-op. It was conceived that way but they knew before construction got underway that that wouldn't fly. They also had problems that weren't necessarily related to the residents but more to do with the beer vendor nearby and the upper crust types who frequented it. They do admit that the design played a part in its downfall but was a failure due more to how it worked within the neighborhood. In other words, it probably would have worked out a lot better pretty much anywhere else.
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To make the existing building look decent on the outside it will cost a ton of money.
212 apartments and 24 parking spaces and no balconies they will have a tough time renting. And with all the homeless camps and increase in crime. I wonder if they know. And 12,000 vacant apartments in Winnipeg with a few thousand under construction. Rents are going down and landlords offering 1 month free rent and a $1000.00 gift card. Calgary is a different rental market than Winnipeg.
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