Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Corydon area

[rkspec]

wasnt it some type of specialty market at one point?

[esquire]

There was an organic grocery store in one part. The building has basically been chopped up into a strip mall ever since Orion left, so various tenants have come and gone over the years.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by rkspec

wasnt it some type of specialty market at one point?

There was a fair sized specialty store called Organza....also healthy possibly vegan eatery?
It would have been nice for the area if a second supermarket would have followed the exit by Dominion.
Yes, the lot could be better utilized jut like Dominion Centre in St Boniface could..Both could have multiple residential buildings & even better retail options. With such proximity to actually good transit services...

[Hecate]

I think the restaurant was called the dandelion eatery. I had an absolutely phenomenal elk stew there once. One of those meals I’ll never forget. Delicious.

[BuildUpWpg]

Originally Posted by esquire

From my vague recollection, it was a Dominion up until the early 80s and then became Orion Chevrolet. It didn't last long as a car dealership, though.

And then it was The Dark Zone for quite awhile.

[bomberjet]

Dark Zone was awesome.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by Hecate

I think the restaurant was called the dandelion eatery. I had an absolutely phenomenal elk stew there once. One of those meals I’ll never forget. Delicious.

You are correct. That was the name.

[rkspec]

Originally Posted by esquire

There was an organic grocery store in one part.

This is when 'organic' was a new thing to winnipeg.
Can u imagine that same grocery store, in that same location 30 years later today?

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by rkspec

This is when 'organic' was a new thing to winnipeg.
Can u imagine that same grocery store, in that same location 30 years later today?

There was an organic grocer in that same location (where the medical clinic now is) as recently as 2016 or so. I think it was Organza, then the Orange Carrot?

[esquire]

I remember when Organza was around, at that time 20+ years ago organic foods were still a bit of a rare specialty item... mainstream supermarkets generally didn't sell organic alternatives. The only organic product they had was incidentally organic, like mushrooms. But once every supermarket started carrying that stuff, I guess that was the end of the line for Organza.

That location would probably a pretty good spot for another supermarket, ha.

[borkborkbork]

265 Osborne back at the City Centre Committee. Looking for approval for the same plan but with greater density than originally approved.

The renderings make it pretty clear this will be in serious contention for Ugliest Building in Winnipeg


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[optimusREIM]

At this point please just get it built because it’s better than a hole in the ground

[Boreal]

Well, Winnipeg artists, time to get thinking. Ya'll about to have a monster canvas to work with in a short period of time.

I could imagine worse (thought it would take some mental acuity). At least it's got some heft to hit. Might as well get it done, especially so if as optimusREIM said, the alternative is a hole.

[BKB]

Originally Posted by borkborkbork

265 Osborne back at the City Centre Committee. Looking for approval for the same plan but with greater density than originally approved.

The renderings make it pretty clear this will be in serious contention for Ugliest Building in Winnipeg


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Did they use Minecraft?

[zalf]

This is another round of "would the marginal cost of having made it less horrific sunk the project?". I'm inclined to think the answer is no. Surely it wouldn't be that expensive to put an ivy trellis on giant blank side of the parkade levels, or round up some Fine Arts students from U of M and hire them to paint a mural.

That big bleak wall will be the first thing anyone getting off at Osborne Station will see; the very cohort who might be considering living in those apartments.

[905er]

what the actual fuck???? ... this literally pisses me right off.. what child drew this shit?

[WildCake]

Originally Posted by 905er

what the actual fuck???? ... this literally pisses me right off.. what child drew this shit?

More like which architecture intern was told to visualize the design of "Plain, bland, light grey tower with no visual features of note, plus 5 randomly scattered parkade windows on an empty white wall, on the most prominent TOD corner of the city"

They must have spiraled into a depression and rushed that job as fast as possible to remove it from their memory.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by BKB

Did they use Minecraft?

Architectural design as a means of punishing a city's residents. Interesting.

The only way it could be a bigger "screw you" is if they put up a big billboard for some corporate villain like Rogers on it. (Too late for Nygard, I guess.)

At least the massing is OK? Just grasping at straws here

[trueviking]

[Sheepish]

Not Brutalist...just Brutal