Winnipeg | 300 Main St.- Phase II / 360 Main St. | ~142M | 465 Ft | 42F | U/C

[esquire]

Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

Also heard that that leak that happened a while back that flooded the main lobby actually started halfway up the building and that a considerable number of suites all the way up took massive water damage.

There was a fair bit of visible damage in the public areas of the podium, and even now there are buckets set up catching dripping water.

Kind of sad that so much nice new work was ruined.

[WinCitySparky]

Yeah so much waste. It’s a cursed project.

[Biff]

I noticed the east side LED's were lit up all the way to the top this morning. Some might think of it as light pollution, but I think downtown needs more of it to jazz it up. Curious to know if it is colour changing or just white.

[WinCitySparky]

I heard while on the project it was colour programmable but I can’t confirm. Agree more pizazz!

[wags_in_the_peg]

i walk by everyday, slowly the north and west side cladding is being completed

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

i walk by everyday, slowly the north and west side cladding is being completed

I was just walking around it over the weekend and seen how many of the panels in the first 10 floors were either bent or dented or just coming off. It's such a shit show for such an amazing building. I'm hoping for a 2025 date for when it's finished lol

[The Jabroni]

300 Main has already become an erected money pit at this point.

[DonaldSmith]

There seems to be an incredible amount of fill that they are removing from somewhere underground and storing on Fort. Does anyone know what that is from?

[WinCitySparky]

I’ve heard they’re digging up the P3 level, possibly to reinforce the foundation because the building is settling more rapidly than they had assumed. It was widely discussed as something that might happen back when all the random building jolts/earthquakes were happening during structural construction. Someone told me recently that work was actually moving forward on it. Not sure if it’s accurate info. It’s hard to get information other than hearsay because the whole fact that the building has experienced high amounts of shifting since it went up has been kept very very hush. Marwest openly denied the seismic events even happened on site in the days after they happened, but everyone felt and heard them, some people were even knocked off balance.

[BKB]

Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

I’ve heard they’re digging up the P3 level, possibly to reinforce the foundation because the building is settling more rapidly than they had assumed. It was widely discussed as something that might happen back when all the random building jolts/earthquakes were happening during structural construction. Someone told me recently that work was actually moving forward on it. Not sure if it’s accurate info. It’s hard to get information other than hearsay because the whole fact that the building has experienced high amounts of shifting since it went up has been kept very very hush. Marwest openly denied the seismic events even happened on site in the days after they happened, but everyone felt and heard them, some people were even knocked off balance.

They are not reinforcing the foundation because the building is settling. They are lowering the P3 floor to accommodate the size of today's vehicles.

[WinCitySparky]

A genius cover move

[bomberjet]

The building is on caisson. So if it's settling, then I would not go near that place.

[drew]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

The building is on caisson. So if it's settling, then I would not go near that place.

Concrete caissons that are "rock socketed" i.e. the base is drilled about 3-feet into the bedrock and anchored in place.

Settlement is not an option.

Remember - the issue to going higher on this building was the rigidity of the original elevator core (which was reinforced prior to the building going up) - not the load capacity of the piles.

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by BKB

They are not reinforcing the foundation because the building is settling. They are lowering the P3 floor to accommodate the size of today's vehicles.

That makes sense, especially for moving vans, etc.

[anthonyk]

Originally Posted by pspeid

That makes sense, especially for moving vans, etc.

And the amount of people convinced that SUVs are the only practical option

[WinCitySparky]

Thanks for the info, even if it’s not as fun as a conspiracy by a lousy GC haha

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by BKB

They are not reinforcing the foundation because the building is settling. They are lowering the P3 floor to accommodate the size of today's vehicles.

is this true?

[zalf]

I sense a Free Press column coming on

[trueviking]

ha ha....no, but that would be CRAZY if they had to do that!

[wags_in_the_peg]

Top sold SUV these days are Rav4, Crv, Forester, Highlander and all are not that big. Don't shit on SUV owners when the vast majority are not Escalades or jacked up monster trucks.