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[dmacc]

What floor are they at now? They look close to toping out. They may beat the snow.

[zalf]

That was 20 they just poured, if I'm not mistaken.

[Biff]

I believe 2 more concrete floors and then a large structural steel floor.

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by Biff

I believe 2 more concrete floors and then a large structural steel floor.

Is there a mechanical floor above 23?

[Biff]

I think that above 22 it is a double height, half mechanical and half sky lobby...all structural steel.

[Biff]

[prairiedog007]

Driving by today, Glass is going up fast, great reflection of Hydro Building

[prairiedog007]

Originally Posted by Winnipeg Grump

This is from yesterday. Concrete pour is today.

They have come so far in one year, Picture from Sep 21, 2021

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by prairiedog007

They have come so far in one year, Picture from Sep 21, 2021

That's nuts. One year and we almost have a 24/25 story building.

But why are these builders so afraid to go over 29 floors? It seems the 22 through 27 floor count is the goal these days. It seems more feasible to me at least to add 5 or 10 floors of residential of some sort to the tops of these tower's, have their own elevators so the office side is on its own. In fact in my eyes these style of buildings would be perfect for Winnipeg. You could potentially live and work in the same building.

[harls]

That is a crazy fast pace!

[pegcityboy]

Wawanesa building would have looked really nice on top of one of the pads at Portage Place and visually improved the look of the mall to some extent , I think it’s maybe too many floors for the pads at the mall , here’s hoping someone comes up with another redevelopment plan for the mall and those end pads . This time someone who has the financial wherewithal opposite of Starlight .

[WinCitySparky]

They need to cut Portage Place in half at Edmonton, and gut the west half and make it into a two-level go-kart mega track. Fuck yeah.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

But why are these builders so afraid to go over 29 floors? It seems the 22 through 27 floor count is the goal these days. It seems more feasible to me at least to add 5 or 10 floors of residential of some sort to the tops of these tower's, have their own elevators so the office side is on its own. In fact in my eyes these style of buildings would be perfect for Winnipeg. You could potentially live and work in the same building.

Builders build what they are contracted to build.

Owners...why would they build something that is not in their core of business operations. Unless they stress at the start that they are interested in building a multi-use building, they build what they need. This is a purpose built, one tenant office building.

It could be more understandable for TNS across the street as they could have built one, 30-50 storey tower with office/hotel/residence etc but they chose two buildings. Other than skyline improvements, I would say the two tower set up gives our downtown more bang for our buck.

I do agree with you that I would love to see someone in Winnipeg get on the multi-use building wagon and start building office/multi-family, office/hotel etc like in other cities.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by pegcityboy

Wawanesa building would have looked really nice on top of one of the pads at Portage Place and visually improved the look of the mall to some extent , I think it’s maybe too many floors for the pads at the mall , here’s hoping someone comes up with another redevelopment plan for the mall and those end pads . This time someone who has the financial wherewithal opposite of Starlight .

At this point it's hard to imagine any sort of office development at Portage Place without the total Starlight-type redevelopment of the entire complex to go along with it. There is nothing about Portage Place that really projects the image that a successful company would want to associate itself with. For instance, I'm sure IG probably wishes it were somewhere else and not sandwiched betweeen the abandoned department store and the semi-abandoned mall...

[Hecate]

Originally Posted by WinCitySparky

They need to cut Portage Place in half at Edmonton, and gut the west half and make it into a two-level go-kart mega track. Fuck yeah.

This is exactly what should be done with it… a massive rec room… I remember when I lived in London. There was a place near picadilly circus called the Trocadéro. It was a bunch of gutted buildings, part arcade, part amusement park, part mall. It would make complete sense for portage place to be renovated into something like that. An actual destination. Reopen the imax, renovate the cinemas, it already has a venue for live theatre. Maybe add a small casino, put in some rides, a small coaster could easily fit in PP, redo the food court more like at true north square add some bars for nightlife and you’ve got an all in one entertainment destination that would actually bring people downtown.

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by Hecate

This is exactly what should be done with it… a massive rec room… I remember when I lived in London. There was a place near picadilly circus called the Trocadéro. It was a bunch of gutted buildings, part arcade, part amusement park, part mall. It would make complete sense for portage place to be renovated into something like that. An actual destination. Reopen the imax, renovate the cinemas, it already has a venue for live theatre. Maybe add a small casino, put in some rides, a small coaster could easily fit in PP, redo the food court more like at true north square add some bars for nightlife and you’ve got an all in one entertainment destination that would actually bring people downtown.

The trick is to find investors willing to do it.

Those pads would start to look real attractive for hotel if this could be pulled off.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

That's nuts. One year and we almost have a 24/25 story building.

But why are these builders so afraid to go over 29 floors? It seems the 22 through 27 floor count is the goal these days. It seems more feasible to me at least to add 5 or 10 floors of residential of some sort to the tops of these tower's, have their own elevators so the office side is on its own. In fact in my eyes these style of buildings would be perfect for Winnipeg. You could potentially live and work in the same building.

People here are seldom risk takers & when they are, people crap all over them predicting failure...whether it works our or not ...Canada Life Centre, Portage Place +++
I agree with what You said.
One Evergreen - 29 floors..Radisson Hotel = 29 floors? 155 Carlton Tower/Lakeview Square - 19 floors? Fairmont Hotel - 19 Floors? Even adding a floor or a couple of floors to get to 20 ...30 etc
Scotiabank would have been nicer at 20 than 17...
MB Hydro listed at 22, really 24 with mechanical roof top..but needed to make 30...Wishlist for me is 416 main..multi purpose building with 30 floors or over..Hotel/ office/residential..Something 35 + where Skycity failed..WCB lot with 25 + floors.. A serious redo of Portage Place and those 20 + towers.
We definitely have to grow our skyline alongside mid rise buildings.

[zalf]

Originally Posted by zalf

Another week, another floor. This is probably the last one that I'll have a clear downward angle on. The next is probably going to be about level with me.

Didn't I just post that?

They're getting a surprisingly late start on the pour. Photo was taken around 18:30. Guess it will be a late night for those guys. You can't see it in the photo because getting the angle would have involved staring into the sun, but their still putting down rebar to the right/north.

[bomberjet]

That's the PCL I know lol

[cllew]

I went for a lunch hour walk thru the skywalk to the Convention Center last week and noticed that the hotel project tower lufting style crane next to the Wawanesa building has been almost disassembled.

I am guessing that there are clearance issues and PCL did not want the boom being blown into their project as tower cranes "weather vane" when not in use