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Originally Posted by esquire
I always thought of Winnipeg as having two downtowns... there is the old original downtown consisting of Portage and Main at the south end, the CP station at the north and the stretch of north Main (around City Hall) being at the core of it.
Then over the years the old Hudson's Bay Reserve SW of P&M really became the heart of downtown. That was especially the case once Eaton's and then later The Bay and a bunch of other retailers set up shop around there.
Here's a map of downtown... the red circle is a rough estimation of 'old downtown' while the green circle represents the new.
When you go to the 'old downtown' there is very little new commercial development. Anything built in the last 75 years is mostly publicly funded with the exception of the Portage and Main skyscrapers, although there are a lot of commercial functions occupying those older buildings.
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no it started by the fort. the cpr station did creat another buisnes distrcit to rise up from the pointdouglas area that was sorta there already and grew towards the fort
the are by the fort was where the more wealthy folks settled had more demolition and replacement wheres the north part was where the imigrints went and settled so theres an older building stock up there mixed in with industrial