Winnipeg Developments

[1ajs]

Manitoba Hydro (under construction)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...32#post9218532





100 Main Street







Bombers Foot Ball stadium (Proposed)
http://www.blueandgold.ca







Stadium Retail Development (Proposed)



Hostelling International (under construction)


Cheif Peguis expantion (Proposed)


Sky Lofts waterfront drive (Proposed)


Jar redevelopment (under construction)



Cier (Proposed)



Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Proposed)


Siemens Institute for Advanaced Medicine (under construction) and Canad Inns Hotel at HSC (Proposed)


The Edgewater on Wellington (under construction)


Union Bank Tower Renos / expansion (Proposed)
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Ebays(Proposed)


Faculty of Pharmacy HSC (U of M) (under construction)


New Music & Architecture building at the U of M (Proposed)


Rock & Roll museum (Proposed)


Ediface Fontaine (Proposed)



River Village Condos (Proposed)


Village Brook (under construction)


University of Winnipeg expansion



university of winnipeg sports center (proposed)



Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film (Under construction)


Duckworth Centre (under construction)



University of Winnipeg Science Complex and Richardson College for the Environment (Proposed)






Canwest Global HQ exspantion (on hold)



North End Wellness Centre (under construction)


The Northern Electric Building - Phase 2(Proposed)



Public Safety Building Reclading (on hold)



Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs [/U](Proposed)





Avenue building / Hample building concept (Proposed)


http://www.centreventure.com/PDF_ave...AvenueBldg.pdf
http://www.centreventure.com/PDF_ave...HampleBldg.pdf
http://www.centreventure.com/PDF_ave...030%202007.doc


Pules on River (under construction)


Condos, boutique hotel, Assiniboine Avenue (Proposed)



Chinese Rock Garden/reading room, second floor balcony Millenium Library (Proposed)





West End Cultural Centre (proposed)



522 river (under construction)





Le Cercle Molière (proposed)



Misericordia Redevelopment (proposed)





1800/1810 Cordon Avenue old CN coridor infill (proposed)

[1ajs]

sweet

anyhow to end 2006 and to bring in 2007

[CB-MAN]

I'm not in the Peg anymore so I'm looking for updates.
1ajs noted that the Human Rights museums fundraising was almost there, please confirm what does that mean? when is the start expected. Also, what is being built beside union tower and who is moving into the old tower?

[MidnightHours]

Originally Posted by CB-MAN

I'm not in the Peg anymore so I'm looking for updates.
1ajs noted that the Human Rights museums fundraising was almost there, please confirm what does that mean? when is the start expected. Also, what is being built beside union tower and who is moving into the old tower?

I think they need another seventy million for the museum, and they wanted it to be started this spring so it would be done in time for 2010 since the olympics will be in Vancouver.

[WinnipegPatriot]

I just heard back from Giles Bugaliskis (City of Winnipeg's foremost heritage planner), and he said there is no tenant yet, which is why Greentree is taking its time.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by WinnipegPatriot

I just heard back from Giles Bugaliskis (City of Winnipeg's foremost heritage planner), and he said there is no tenant yet, which is why Greentree is taking its time.

union tower is not supost to bed finished till 2010...

[CB-MAN]

When you say there is no tenant yet does this mean that they want that building to be a commercial development over Condo's?

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by CB-MAN

When you say there is no tenant yet does this mean that they want that building to be a commercial development over Condo's?

origonaly the entire cities planing department was supost to amalgulate all of its offices into it. BTW if ya don't know city hall is across the street

and this is not the only old building project that is moving along slowly... there the CIER witch is a cuple blocks to the north of city hall

[1ajs]

curen registerd leeds projects

1.Greenheart Housing Co-operative
2.Kitching Court
3.West End Cultural Centre
4.Victoria General Hospital - Emergency Room and Oncology Unit
5.Birks Building Renovation and Upgrade
6.Winnipeg International Airport Terminal Building
7.University of Manitoba Aboriginal Student Centre
8.Entegra Credit Union
9.Canadian Mennonite University Residence
10.Manitoba Hydro Downtown Office Building
11.SC3 - Smith Carter New Corporate Office Building
12.Winnipeg Humane Society
13.Winnipeg Mountain Equipment Co-op
14.Aboriginal Personal Care Home
15.The Strand on Waterfront Drive

[1ajs]

project on river
http://www.winnipeg.ca/clkdmis/docum...ibit%2012a.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/clkdmis/docum...ibit%2012b.pdf
http://www.winnipeg.ca/clkdmis/docum...ibit%2012c.pdf

[MidnightHours]

The building next to the St. Charles Hotel won't be torn down afterall.
A civic committee has put the brakes on plans to turn the property at 3844 Albert street into a parking lot.
Instead, the structure now carries a grade three Manitoba Heritage building designation.
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A Winnipeg city councillor is bringing the idea of bicycle licences back for consideration.
Harry Lazarenko tells CJOB perhaps licences are a way to remind cyclists they must abide by the rules:

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Lazarenko says council almost adopted a licensing policy a few years ago. However the idea was dropped due to enforcement concerns.

The councillor says too many cyclists are riding on sidewalks and peddling through stop signs.

[1ajs]

Nominee program a lifesaver for businesses

Thu Jan 11 2007
'AROUND our shop the senior executives tell me that if it wasn't for the Provincial Nominee Program, our company could have been in real trouble."

The speaker was Kevin Kavanagh, former president and chief executive officer of Great West Life Assurance Company, Manitoba's premier business enterprise, which, together with its subsidiaries, London Life and Canada Life, is one of Canada's largest financial services companies.

The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is a federal-provincial program that brings immigrants to a province targeted to fill occupational shortages required or likely to be required by industries and businesses within the jurisdiction.

At a recent conference on immigration into Manitoba, Pioneers 2006, sponsored by the Business Council of Manitoba, Kavanagh said that with the escalating exodus of talented, locally grown and trained people to Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver, GWL would have had difficulty replacing them if it wasn't for the new pool of equally qualified persons brought here under the PNP.

Indeed, walk through the hallways of that venerable institution, which has been a major player on the local business, cultural, social and corporate citizenship scene since the 1880s, and one will be exposed to a mini-United Nations. Their occupations are both skilled and managerial. Some immigrants may still do the menial, but many are also doing the major assignments.

This is not a new situation for the Health Sciences Centre and other hospitals. At HSC, it is not easy to count all the different national origins of the dedicated and capable people employed there simply from their skin colours or accented English. They include highly skilled and experienced doctors, operating room staffs, nurses, nurses' aids, support workers and caretaking staff. This institution is probably Manitoba's largest employer other than the provincial government.
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Since the PNP started just over six years ago, more than 53,000 new immigrants have been brought to Manitoba. Provincial authorities point out that the retention rate has been a truly remarkable 98 per cent. They come with all kinds of skills, training and certification for positions here that need filling, primarily in the private sector. They are recruited primarily to fill a need.

Some of the statistics associated with the program are interesting, according to Gerald Clement, assistant deputy minister for Manitoba Labor and Immigration, who heads the PNP. The average age of Manitobans is 37; the average age of the immigrants being brought in is 24. Over 50 per cent of the new immigrants do not speak either of Canada's two official languages, giving support employment to local people involved with teaching English as a second language. During the past year, this province acquired immigrants from over 100 different countries of origin.

Robert Vineberg, regional director of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, reports that Manitoba has accounted for more PNP immigrants than any other province. The program's great strength is that temporary workers are being placed where they are most needed, not just in the traditional Canadian immigration destinations of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Vineberg urges that foreign students should be encouraged to remain here after their student visas expire. They are bright, young and ambitious. They know the local situation and how to make their way here. Immigration is not just about adding to the labour force; it's also about adding to Manitoba's population mix.

Provincial Labour Minister Nancy Allen sees immigration, and particularly the PNP, as a key component to Manitoba's growth in the face of an aging population and the attractive booming economies further west. Another tool in the strategy is focused recruitment; for example, bringing in 350 francophone immigrants.

There has been a gratifying distribution between Winnipeg and rural communities, with more than 22 per cent settling in communities such as Steinbach, Winkler, Brandon, Morden, Thompson, Stonewall, Selkirk, Plum Coulee and Grunthal.

Six years ago the Business Council of Manitoba, made up of the CEOs of 65 of the largest corporations headquartered here, responded to their concern that the major problem facing them in doing business here was the shortage of a skilled labour pool by organizing its first conference on immigration, at which it urged the province to target 10,000 new immigrants each year. The Doer government responded positively. It is anticipated that Manitoba will pass the 10,000 immigrant number for the past 12 months some time this month or early next, thus hitting the council's target.

Allen announced that the new target is 20,000 new immigrants each year, agreeing with the business council that this would be a good thing, indeed. Many attribute Winnipeg's boom, particularly in construction and housing, to our increased population, generated almost exclusively by immigration, and helping to offset the out-migration.
Otto Lang, a former federal cabinet minister who held a number of important portfolios, says that Manitoba should be taking in 100,000 new immigrants, arguing they will create their own jobs, if none exist, and bring further boom and prosperity. As a small, have-not province, can we ever take in too many?

hbuchwald@shaw.ca

[1ajs]

Optimism breaking out all over province

Thu Jan 11 2007

MARTIN CASH

Winnipeg Free Press archives
Peter Olfert: record enrolment
MANITOBA may not be leading the nation on many economic fronts, but there is no denying the province has some momentum.

Notwithstanding the poor state of the roads, the continuing concern about crime and the fact that Manitoba's income tax rates are among the highest in the country, the economy in the city and the province is as strong as it has been in many years.

Granted, the concept of community momentum is pretty subjective. The Oxford Dictionary's definition of the word is "impetus gained by movement."

That still remains open to interpretation, but it does make it clear that there can't be any impetus if there is no movement. Something has to happen if there is going to be momentum.

And there is plenty going on in Manitoba.

"The fact is, Winnipeg has experienced an economic resurgence over the past few years," said Stu Duncan, CEO of Destination Winnipeg.
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Duncan's job would probably require he keep his mouth shut if the opposite were true, but the facts speak for themselves.

On Wednesday, Statistics Canada released building permit values for the first 11 months of 2006 and Manitoba's total of $1.28 billion already surpasses the year-long previous record of $1.15 billion in 2004.

According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., 2006 produced a 17-year high 2,777 new housing starts in Winnipeg in 2006.

The same federal housing agency forecasts that Manitoba will be the only province in the country next year to increase housing starts as well as home sales.

There are plenty of people attracted to the allure of the apparently green grass of Alberta, but there were also a record 10,000 international immigrants who chose to come to Manitoba in 2006 and stay. The unemployment rate remains second lowest in the country, dangerously low if you ask employers, many of whom are constantly looking for workers.

Peter Olfert, president of the Manitoba Government and General Employees Union, points to record enrolment at the province's post-secondary institutions as an important indicator of momentum.

Manitoba has lagged in disposable income levels, but recent collective bargaining agreements have produced pay increases well above the 1.7 per cent inflation rate.
"What that means is that there really is more money in people's pockets," said Olfert.

Manitoba's population represents only about four per cent of Canada's, so it is unlikely to lead the nation in anything.

But that does not change the fact that retail sales and private sector investments continue to increase in Manitoba, even if it is not always leading the nation.

Last month's quarterly Jory Capital/Winnipeg Free Press survey on economic outlook and job security largely confirmed the level-headed, steady-as-she-goes attitude in the province. But it also generated some of the least negative numbers in the decade.

For instance, in answer to the question about whether people are better or worse off financially than they were a year ago, only 14 per cent said they were worse off. That was the lowest level in years and significantly more hopeful than the 24 per cent who thought they were worse off in September 2001.

Increasingly, rural Manitoba has assumed the role of the poor cousin in the Manitoba economy. But in December only 10 per cent of those surveyed from the country were concerned about losing their job or experiencing work reduction in the next six months. That was the lowest total in years.

Olfert said large capital projects like the floodway, Hydro mega-projects and the province's recent commitment to investing in roads make a difference in people's perception about their prospects.

Jim Carr of the Business Council of Manitoba said recent private gifts by the Asper and Richardson families to the University of Winnipeg and the Richardson's $1 million gift to the city's cultural institutions does the same thing. It also bolsters the province's reputation as a leader in per capita giving.

Probe research did some surveying recently for Destination Winnipeg that showed that 36 per cent of Winnipeggers felt the city's image has improved against 13 per cent who said it was worse. Among people 18-to-34, 46 per cent thought it was better and only 10 per cent felt it was worse.
That's momentum.

Martin Cash's column appears every Thursday in the Free Press business section. To contact him, please call 697-7242 or e-mail him at martin.cash@freepress.mb.ca.

[1ajs]

HSC unveils new facility
$135-M critical-care building largest-ever project of its kind

Thu Jan 11 2007

By Jen Skerritt
THE Health Sciences Centre is unveiling a $135-million state-of-the-art critical-services facility Thursday that is set to improve health care for seriously ill or injured patients across the province.

Hospital officials are marking the official opening of the Ann Thomas Building Thursday morning, which will house all critical services and support programs, including adult emergency, pediatric intensive care, burn unit and adult and pediatric surgery.

It's the largest health-services capital construction project in provincial history.

The money will go into an $84-million, four-floor building on the 700-block of William Avenue, as well as $51 million worth of new medical equipment and furnishings inside the facility. The spot covers what was formerly the William Avenue entrance to the Health Sciences Centre, as well as the north wing of the Children's Hospital, which was demolished to make way for the new project.

HSC CEO Brock Wright said the 286,000-square-foot building will replace outdated equipment and reaffirm HSC's position on the leading edge of trauma care.

"In our current structure, those are all areas where medicine has really changed over the years," Wright said. "The current operating rooms are simply too small for the type of surgery people do today."

Tenders sought for HSC parkade

THE construction of a new 1,200-stall parkade for the Health Sciences Centre will likely begin in early spring.

A tender invitation for pre-qualification went out this week to general contractors and sub-contractors for the seven-and-a-half level, 501,000-square-foot Tecumseh Parkade.

It is to be built immediately west of the smaller, existing Emily Street parkade.

The project is expected to take about 16 months and should be ready to open during the summer of 2008.

Currently, there are about 2,900 parking stalls available in five lots surrounding HSC, in addition to another 400 at the Manitoba Clinic and 250 more used by the University of Manitoba.

"There is quite a bit of parking, but just not enough," said Dana Erickson, HSC's vice-president and CAO. "We need a little over 4,000."

Final approval from city council was obtained in November, he said.

Erickson said the work will include the demolition of nine existing residential homes and some street infrastructure.
HSC's redevelopment plan dates back to the early 1970s, when hospital administration began to discuss how to adapt operating and emergency rooms with the advances in technology. Some of the current structures were initially built in the 1920s, and are considered cramped and poorly ventilated compared to more modern ones.

Wright said these facilities have made it difficult for staff to keep up the hospital's first-rate reputation. HSC is the only hospital in the province that handles trauma cases, transplants, neurosurgery and high-level pediatric care.

Patients in adult emergency rooms are separated by a curtain, and have little privacy during personal conversations with their physician.

Similarly, current operating rooms are too small to accommodate some of the larger equipment required for minimally invasive surgery.

By comparison, Wright said, the new emergency rooms will have partial walls and the operating rooms will be large enough to include the latest in surgical care.

Wright said critical-care services will be moving into the new building over the next couple of months and be in place at the end of March. Pediatric emergency will be in place by the end of January, while the operating rooms will be the last critical service to be fully operational. Despite the increase in space, Wright said they will be able to accommodate only a slight increase in patient capacity.

There will be six pediatric operating rooms instead of five, and 12 adult operating rooms compared to the current 11 rooms.

Wright said budget and space constraints meant the HSC had to balance the future of patient care against the immediate needs of the hospital.
"We think we struck the right balance," Wright said.

Winnipeggers can catch a glimpse of the new critical-services building during special public tours starting Thursday afternoon.

Wright said the tours are the only time Winnipeggers will get an inside look at the new building before all of the services are in place. Tours run every half hour on Thursday from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants are invited to enter HSC through the 730 William Ave. entrance.

jen.skerritt@freepress.mb.ca

What the new critical services building will include:

* A trauma operating room located in the emergency room.

* Decontamination room for adult and pediatric patients.

* More waiting rooms, windows and patio areas for patients and their families.

* Burn unit.

* Adult and pediatric surgery.

Who is Ann Thomas Callahan?

In 1958, Ann Thomas was one of the first aboriginal nurses to graduate from the Winnipeg General Hospital's nursing program.

* Born on the Peepeekisis First Nation in 1935 and a graduate of the Birtle Indian Residential School, Thomas began her career in the hospital's gynecology ward and later became the head nurse.

* In 1960, Ann Thomas married Michael Francis Callahan.

* In 1973, Thomas Callahan left the Health Sciences Centre to take a position with the newly formed Continuing Care for People in Need, a job where she worked with aboriginal and non-aboriginal clients in Winnipeg's core area.

* In 1983, Thomas Callahan became an instructor and academic counsellor at Red River College's Southern Nursing Program.

* After almost 40 years in nursing, Thomas Callahan retired in 1996.

[1ajs]

Mintrans plans to organize cargo route Winnipeg-Krasnoyarsk.

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Russia's Transport Minister Igor Levitin has discussed with Transport Minister of Manitoba province (Canada) Ron Leumier the program "North Air Bridge", that stipulates the organization of the Winnipeg-Krasnoyarsk route, Russia's Transport Ministry says.

Mr. Levitin offered the Canadian party to discuss the operation of Winnipeg and Krasnoyarsk as a singe system.

The parties noted that presently there is no possibility to organize passenger conveyance in this direction, but cargo transportations are in demand. So, the Russian party decided to form a cargo hub in Krasnoyarsk.

[1ajs]

ok guys heres are new stadium it goes befor the team tomarow

[WinnipegPatriot]

Nice! The stadium will be the envy of all!

I am in Fort Lauderdale right now, after an 8 day Caribbean cruise. We are returning home tonight.

I am shocked really about the increase in the number of immigrants targeted...20,000? This is awesome. This is what we need to ensure we have the market to continue condo development, etc downtown. We CANNOT at any point become complacent, and allow any momentum to die, as was the case after the developments in the 80s...we allowed the province and mainly Winnipeg to go downhill throughout the 90s.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by WinnipegPatriot

Nice! The stadium will be the envy of all!

I am in Fort Lauderdale right now, after an 8 day Caribbean cruise. We are returning home tonight.

I am shocked really about the increase in the number of immigrants targeted...20,000? This is awesome. This is what we need to ensure we have the market to continue condo development, etc downtown. We CANNOT at any point become complacent, and allow any momentum to die, as was the case after the developments in the 80s...we allowed the province and mainly Winnipeg to go downhill throughout the 90s.

yep
so thats were you were hiding you go by your self? or somesorta gay cruise event?

o and you missed the -40 temps though

[vid]

A gay cruise? Isn't that a little progressive for WP? :O

[WinnipegPatriot]

Gay cruise? I would never leave my cabin!

The, um, buffet, shall we say, of hot men on this cruise was more delicious than the food!!!

The number of hot men in Detroit's airport was overwhelming. Detroit has a nice airport--lots of shops and restaurants; I was not expecting that.