The Government of Canada is spending $4.8M on a retrofit to Winnipeg’s Gordon Bell High School that is expected to halve the building’s energy use. Construction began in summer of 2023 and is scheduled to be complete by fall 2025.
Canada Life and the Power Corporation of Canada are providing $750,000 to the Rainbow Resource Centre, to continue the development of its Winnipeg housing complex for 2SLGBTQ+ seniors. Construction on the 21-unit building concluded in August 2024, and Phase 2 will begin next year. It includes programming space, a library, a café, and permaculture gardens.
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Construction has begun on Winnipeg's Portage and Main intersection and is expected to last about six months. The downtown intersection has long been closed to pedestrians, but is being redesigned to accommodate foot traffic and is scheduled to reopen in summer 2025.
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True North Real Estate Development has acquired Portage Place, a shopping mall in downtown Winnipeg. The company is planning to convert the buildings into a $650M mixed-use project that includes a health care services complex, a grocery store, 216 residential units, and office space for community and social services agencies.
Raising the Roof, a Toronto-based charity, has purchased a 24-unit apartment block in Winnipeg’s West End neighbourhood, and intends to convert it to affordable housing. The organization plans to begin the renovation in 2025, employing workers through a local social enterprise that trains Indigenous people at risk of homelessness.
The City of Winnipeg is hiring M.D. Steele Construction Ltd. to complete the work necessary to open the Portage and Main intersection to pedestrians. The company was the only one to bid on the project, which has a deadline of July 2025. As a result, the total cost will be $8M more than originally projected.
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Winnipeg Region, MB
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