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In the Spring of 1994 the Lions Club of Winnipeg announced that they were going to build an 18-storey twin tower to house seniors.
Winnipeg Free Press - June 7, 1994 - Towers to soar at old Trib location
The apartment complex would house up to 500 seniors and include a skywalk connection to the Post Office.

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I have just completed a one-week vacation trip to Chicago.
During the weeks before I left, the former Birks Building on Portage Ave. was being re-used as the new home of the Land Titles office, which is a department of the Province of Manitoba.
In the mid- to late-90s, Musiplex, a locally-owned store selling CDs and DVDs, [...]

Portage Avenue–once “cluttered” with streetcar rights-of-way, bicycles, pedestrians, and angle parking–died decades ago, and the eight-lane highway known as Route 85 sprung up in its place. Main Street became Route 52. Winnipeg’s most celebrated storefront shopping district, nostalgically known as Osborne Street, is in fact built up around another highway, Route 62, that permits parking [...]