[zalf]

If you have rigid aesthetic requirements for every residential highrise in downtown Winnipeg, you're not going to get a bunch of beautiful towers, you're going to get no towers at all.

I think the first step to getting the market to deliver consistently high-quality towers being built downtown is making downtown for desirable, and the first step to that is just getting more people living and spending time downtown.

Is the tower ugly? Yeah. Does it a giant hideous parkade? Yes, but from other posts here it sounds like the part that actually faces the sidewalk would be CRUs. I see this as a strict improvement. The site is currently an empty lot.