winnipeg

[1ajs]

just some of the projects going on around winnipeg

Barber house redevlopment

daycare meuseam coffe house art studio

Manitoba hydro tower

HSC hotel

Siemens Institute

Human Rights Museum

Mixed use condo Provencher Boulevard - Old St.Boniface

500 Tache - Condos old St.Boniface

The Excelsior

The Strand

Shipstreet Village

Osborne Street Office Reno

Proposed Metis Museum

Nygard Village in the East Exchange District

The Edgewater Condominium

new airport terminal

Sky Condominuim

Northern Electric Building

Lofts on Bannatyne Loft Conversion

theres alot more but thats as many pics as it will let me post...

some rumers about some new condos downtown and another office tower...

[Blehh]

The 2 I like from this list the most is the Nygard Village and the Human Rights Museum, Manitoba Hydro's pretty nice too. But my favorite project of all (in Winnipeg), which you did not list is the STADIUM!!!

[1ajs]

The 2 I like from this list the most is the Nygard Village and the Human Rights Museum, Manitoba Hydro's pretty nice too. But my favorite project of all (in Winnipeg), which you did not list is the STADIUM!!!

that stadium is in planing still.. they are looking at 4 difrent sites.....

david asper wants to buy the football team....

[Blehh]

Interesting, what are the 4 sites? And which one is the most convinient?

[1ajs]

Interesting, what are the 4 sites? And which one is the most convinient?

the old canada pakers site in st bonaface. the red river ex grounds. south point douglas and the other one i can't rember

more info in this thread on the stadium also one of the archtecs working on it is on there

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=111137

[1ajs]

summer is construction season...there are some new announcements on the horizon.....the 100 main RFP has some amazing proponents....at least one would be vancouveresque, from what i have seen....the met theatre RFP will be announced soon....the costume museum expression of interest has accepted proposals....the stadium is moving along.....the sky and wellington crescent condos are selling....people are about to move into the other waterfront condos as well as fairchild lofts.

theres your answer about the stadium in there....

[1ajs]

snowed today now its winterpeg

[1ajs]

projects going on in and around downtown

[1ajs]

new condo project called Ebays

starting at 69k

heres a simlar one that was built few years ago same archtect

witch is called Website

[egrguy]

The 2 I like from this list the most is the Nygard Village and the Human Rights Museum, Manitoba Hydro's pretty nice too. But my favorite project of all (in Winnipeg), which you did not list is the STADIUM!!!

[1ajs]

Me too, I'd certainly like to follow the construction process on this one, It will be quite the piece of architecture when its completed.

[1ajs]

construction updates...

union tower.

so are they restoring the doors?

Saddlery Lofts

Nygard.

The Strand

Exelsor

Faculty of Pharmacy building (U of M)

[1ajs]

some new renders of the manitoba hydro tower

[1ajs]

Searching for Portage saviour

CentreVenture hopeful landmark will be saved

Mon Dec 4 2006

By Aldo Santin

BELEAGUERED downtown development agency CentreVenture has moved in a new direction by buying a dilapidated Portage Avenue building that it's betting can be redeveloped by the private sector into a prestige project.

John Hodgert, the interim president of CentreVenture's urban development bank, confirmed the agency has bought the four-storey Avenue Building, on the north side of Portage Avenue between Smith and Garry streets.

Hodgert said CentreVenture will invite private firms to make proposals on how the building or the site should be developed, adding those proposals will be judged on the impact they create, the reputation and track record of the firms making the proposals, and their cost.

Hodgert said CentreVenture has also taken out an option to purchase the vacant building next door, the Hemphill Building, as part of the redevelopment proposal.

"We're trying to make a bold statement," said Hodgert, who along with hotel owner Ida Albo was brought to CentreVenture in the summer to reinvigorate the agency.

"We've done our analysis, which shows this would be a viable investment in a number of different ways," Hodgert said.

Plan is new direction for development agency

CENTREVENTURE was created in 1999 by then-mayor Glen Murray to revitalize the downtown. It offered grants and heritage tax credits to spur development.

Its biggest project involved selling city-owned riverfront land along the west bank of the Red River to a group of developers who are now building the condominium projects along Waterfront Drive.

In addition to the Waterfront condos, the agency was key to the Mountain Equipment Co-Op store on Portage Avenue and Giant Tiger on Ellice, as well as several warehouse conversion projects in the west Exchange area.

Despite those successes, the agency came under fire in early November from a review conducted by the city auditor, which found it had been floundering for several years, with no direction, no planning and no proper budgets. The former management structure was changed during the summer with the endorsement of Mayor Sam Katz and his executive policy committee.

The position of president and CEO was eliminated and replaced by two new positions: president of urban development bank, now held by John Hodgert, a venture capital financier; and president of public destination, held by Ida Albo, co-owner of the Fort Garry Hotel.

The strategic plan Hodgert is developing will see CentreVenture do more deals like the Avenue Building, buying up private property that its owners have allowed to languish and attracting developers who can imagine a fresh use for the sites.

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Hodgert said the project could become the first of many by CentreVenture, as the agency hones its new strategic plan of targeting Portage Avenue and Main Street for significant redevelopment projects that will trigger similar private-sector developments around them.

"We'll look at significant pieces of property which, once redeveloped, will make a big, visual impact," Hodgert said. "We're still refining our strategic plan and it will be presented to our board for approval soon."

Stefano Grande, executive director of the Downtown Improvement Zone, said he was pleased with CentreVenture's new approach and also its first project.

"It's pretty common for downtown development agencies to do that," Grande said.

"This kind of approach is fundamental to downtown redevelopment."

The Avenue Building sits between two major office buildings: the Kensington Building to the west, and the Paris Building to the east. The Avenue Building used to be a bustling block that contained Dunn Jewellers and Dominion News on the main floor and professional offices above, but it's sat vacant for almost a decade after the jewelry shop moved to Pembina Highway and the news shop moved across the street.

Major blight The U of M once considered it as a possible downtown campus for its architecture faculty but balked when it realized how dilapidated it had become. Along with the Hemphill Building, formerly home to another jewelry store, that stretch is considered one of the two major blights on downtown Portage.

Hodgert said the Avenue Building has several excellent architectural features -- including seven-foot-tall windows, 11-foot ceilings and an expansive skylight.

CentreVenture has had an engineering and architecture firm study the building, information that Hodgert said would be provided to interested developers.

Hodgert said the architects are producing drawings picturing a couple of different proposed uses for the building, including upscale New York City-style condos. But he said those ideas are only a starting point, repeating that CentreVenture will not steer developers onto any specific concept.

its not a 4 story building its actualy 6

the pink building

[1ajs]

hey guys get aload of this new stadium proposil that just came out today

cost 120 mil

the aspers are puting up 40mill up front for the construction (owners of canwest global based outa winnipeg)

would be built on the same location as the curent one

[1ajs]

100 main proposil

1 of 3

football stadium

waterfront drive condos

Avenue building

A new and bizar proposil for asiniboin ave (downtown)

[1ajs]

hmm

nygard vilig got canceled the owner was being a sleize and the city would not let him have his way so he killed it....

100 main is not a new tallest

center venture aparently sold the avenue building to a developer thats going to turn it into offices

and hydro is now 14 flors with the forms going in for the 15th floor

[BrandonTO416]

Wow, I didn't realize Winnipeg had so much going on. Thanks for the updates.

[broran28]

We need more updates! I really like Winnipeg. (I know Im weird for liking cold weather)...

[leclercnlakenona]

We need more updates! I really like Winnipeg. (I know Im weird for liking cold weather)...

[SimpleSimon]

^Most of those projects listed are under construction or complete. 100 Main is cancelled. The avenue building ins on hold. With less than 20 million dollars to go, full commitment (and millions in funding) from the feds and making news nationally, the CMHR is ready to go. It is going to be a national museum. The new airport terminal by Cesar Pelli is under construction right now.

courtesey of 1ajs on skyscraperpage.com

[doogur]

I was in Winnipeg during June '06, and I don't remember seeing a lot of construction. Actually...I don't remember seeing any construction, and I had a lot of free time in many parts of the city shown in these pictures.

[1ajs]

o dear god i need to update the front page :S

anyhow

[1ajs]

posible new home for the winnipeg blue bombers just north of downtown along the river