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Downtown Living Tour

June 28th, 2010
Downtown Living Tour 2010 Another year, another great tour. This was my fourth year of helping head up the residential leg of the program and there have been real changes in the attitudes of the folks who participated in the tour.This year has been filled with incredible changes in people's perceptions of what downtown living is all about.  In working with the Downtown Biz and CentreVentur, ...

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CJOB interview on the Downtown Tour

June 25th, 2010
FROM cutting edge artist lofts to ritzy riverfront condos, suburban Winnipeggers get to see what life is like in the city's centre at a special exhibition Saturday. Today I was interviewed by Richard Cloutier on CJOB as a representative of this weekend's Downtown Living Tour.  5 years running and I continue to help out the city departments organize this event.  A great new feature this ye ...

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The Residents Get a Tour

June 15th, 2010
Photo courtesy of John GiavedoniLast week's highlights with the Downtown Resident's Crowd featured a tour of a new project located on Lombard in Downtown's Theatre District.  One point of interest in the yet-to-be-developed building was this old vault.  Just like Geraldo, the vault was empty for me. For more Downtown discoveries join me at the Downtown Living Tour June 26th and 27th.  I have ...
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What Does Woodwards say about Winnipeg's Downtown?

June 8th, 2010
I began my day today in an interesting, but appropriate way. I was in attendance at Robert Enright's book launch Body Heat: The Story of Woodward's Redevelopment.  A story on how one of Canada’s most innovative mixed-use developments became a reality after many years of dormancy as a derelict department store! Several years ago I visited Vancouver with my wife and family.  Being from a lon ...

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Art and Customer Appreciation

June 8th, 2010
A wonderful evening was had by all, and a big thank you goes out to all my past, present  and future customers.The food was fantastic, and the conversations were spirited and diverse with devlopers, artists, downtown residents and designers all sharing their views on downtown.The celebration was twice as nice with the opening of Christian Worthington's new gallery located at 374 Donald St. Yo ...

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Aspire to Loftier Heights

April 6th, 2010
There are those who say -- when you're looking for a home, that is -- that it's rare to find everything you're looking for in one tidy package. That said, if you happen to be looking for a distinctly urban condominium that seamlessly mixes old and new design concepts -- with a superb location -- you might want to consider a penthouse suite at 110 Princess St. in the city's historic Exchange ...

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Big Change in the Exchange

November 17th, 2009
THE largest residential conversion project in more than 20 years is being planned for the East Exchange District.  The Qualico Group wants to purchase six, multi-storey heritage buildings on Market and James avenues from Nygard International and convert them to residential/commercial use. Spokespeople for both companies confirmed Monday that an offer to purchase has been submitted and negot ...

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Its broke; now here is how to fix it

March 17th, 2009
One of the city's key incentive programs for stimulating new downtown housing development is "useless" and need to be quadrupled to make such projects financially attractive, according to one downtown developer. "Property-tax refunds are useless," Hart Mallin said, referring to the property-tax rebates and upfront grants in lieu of rebates offered under the city's Multi-family Mixed-Use Dwel ...

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Warmin up to Winter-peg

March 13th, 2009
    Warming up to Winter-peg Behind city's genuine sense of modesty lies a vibrant cultural March 05, 2009 NOAH RICHLER     SPECIAL TO THE STAR WINNIPEG–It's Canada in winter, the season when – outside, perhaps, of Québec City with its Carnival and mad Red Bull skaters – many of us wish our home and native land was shut down and moved to Mexico. Only my wife and I ar ...

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Hydro substation in historic buildings is 'under review'

January 22nd, 2009
Manitoba Hydro appears to be putting the brakes on a plan to purchase and gut three buildings in Winnipeg's historic Exchange District to expand a high-voltage electrical substation inside the buildings' shells. In a news release Thursday, the Crown-owned utility said it is reviewing its plan and quoted CEO Bob Brennan as saying "the corporation respects community standards and will work wit ...

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