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Word from pharma-tycoon Daren Jorgenson via his Protect the Heritage Buildings Facebook group is that the Albert Street business block, and with it the 129-year old house behind the storefronts, is about to fall victim to another dirty demolition scheme.
The Ken Hong owner has received notice to vacate the Albert Street Business Block so that [...]

If you belong to social networking group Facebook, then you can see for yourself that Bus Rapid Transit apologist Paul Hesse is a member of the group that seeks to restore Winnipeg Electric Company streetcar #356.
However this truly defies normal logic, as Paul is leader of another group — one that seeks to continue Winnipeg’s [...]

Although we were saying it three years ago, it took $1.39/L gasoline for Lakehead University economist Livio Di Matteo to recognize that higher fuel costs are going to bring the middle class back from suburbia.
It’s obnoxious to say, We told you so, but we did. And when it comes to which plan to follow for [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise & Sprawl
Fresh from fighting to save the footprint of Upper Fort Garry—a structure demolished in 1882—Heritage Winnipeg has just given the thumbs up to the demolition of the Albert Street Business Block (and the 130 year-old house that stands adjoined to it) because Ken Zaifman, the developer who has sought [...]

Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
A drawing was released this month of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s future offices at Logan Avenue and Main Street, which is part of Centre Venture Development Corporation’s “cluster developments” for downtown. A 200-car parkade will adjoin the building, and up the street close to Higgins Avenue, a new surface [...]

One cannot care for streets they’ve never walked onRobert Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Today, a new design for WRHA’s new office and parkade at Main and Logan was unveiled that has done what was thought to be impossible: be more visually deficient than the original conceptual drawing. The architect, Stantec, appeared to have drawn inspiration [...]

Why “BRT” would do more harm than good
Lately and bizarrely there has been a renewed interest in the Axworthy-Murray-Borland-Wyatt dead horse that was the “Bus Rapid Transit” plan that Mayor Sam Katz blew off in 2005. Would-be Liberal MLA Paul Hesse is leading a ragtag team of pseudo-environmentalists and “urban” types who are calling for [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Last winter, when City Hall said they were not interested in letting Mr. Zaifman bring the suburbs to the finest little street in the city’s most distinct and important neighborhood by demolishing a strip of businesses and the remnant of a 130-year-old house for a parking lot, Zaifman warned [...]

When it was announced in 1881 that the Canadian Pacific Railway would cross the Red River at Winnipeg, the young city’s future as Western Canada’s pre-eminent centre of trade, finance, and culture was secured. As a result, the already briskly growing city experienced a real estate boom of such stupendous proportions, that it would make [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Walking down its streets today, it’s hard to imagine that Point Douglas, the neighborhood I call home, once faced the threat of demolition in the name of urban renewal.
In a 1959 story, the Winnipeg Tribune quoted a Mrs. Olga Fedink of Stephen St: “[P]eople don’t know whether their houses [...]