Then & Now

[Pinus]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

Probably start in the mid $600s to buy, and about $1000 / mo to rent. The area is a bit higher end, but as it's still a ways off from being built out, the market isn't the greatest in Calgary still, and there are a lot of social services in the area, prices are lower than one would expect for such a prime location.

Mid $600s? Seems overpriced straight from the getgo.

[suburbanite]

Ya that price-to-rent ratio seems off. No way cap rates are sub 2% on condos in Calgary.

[Wpg_Guy]

Winnipeg


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Apr 1
#WinnipegNow+Then: The intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street.


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Mar 22
#WinnipegNow+Then: View down Portage Avenue. 1940’s and today.


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#WinnipegNow+Then: Portage and Main.
1940’s: Cars. Streetcars. Bikes. People.
2018: Cars. Busses. Barricades.


@brent_bellamy: #WinnipegNow+Then: MainStreet. Merchants Bank (right) lost for the Richardson Building, McKintyre Block (left) lost for a parking lot, streetcars lost for cars and busses.


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#WinnipegNow+Then: Aerial view comparison of the south side of downtown. Early 1960’s and today.


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#WinnipegNow+Then: The city’s industrial waterfront in 1963. Today being transformed @TheForks.


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#WinnipegNow+Then: @RRC Exchange District campus built in 2003, retained four historic facades. A pioneer of modern green building design.


@brent_bellamy: #WinnipegNow+Then: The view of downtown from St. Boniface in 1962 and today.


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#WinnipegNow+Then: Lindsay Building on Norte Dame - started the modern trend of transforming heritage buildings into residential.


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#WinnipegNow+Then: Leland Hotel, lost to arson in 1999. Replaced with @RRC Paterson Global Foods Institute in 2013.


Portage Avenue #WinnipegNow+Then comparison, showing the change in street life and sidewalk retail shops.


WinnipegNow+Then: Portage Avenue in the 1960’s and today. More buildings - Fewer people.


WinnipegNow+Then: Portage Avenue. (A stairwell kept me from getting further left) the two storey Curry Block replaced the Spencer Block and was intended to be the base of an 8 storey tower, but it was stopped because of World War One.


WinnipegNow+Then: Streetcar on Notre Dame Avenue. Today the tracks are exposed during a street renewal project.


WinnipegNow+Then: Provencher Boulevard with streetcar lines running down the centre median.


WinnipegNow+Then: Royal Alexandra Hotel at Main and Higgins. A grand CPR Hotel - The finest in the city. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II both stayed there. Demolished in 1971.



WinnipegNow+Then: Graham Avenue before it became a surface parking lot.


WinnipegNow+Then: Victoria Theatre on Fort Street near Portage (beside the Vendome). There’s an urban legend that the current building might be the same one.



WinnipegNow+Then: Donald Street in the 1890’s and #WPGWhiteout


WinnipegNow+Then: Portage Avenue - Paris and Avenue Buildings from the 1950’s - almost all the same buildings, and all fully occupied, including 60 new residences, but which looks like it would create more pedestrian activity on the sidewalk?


WinnipegNow+Then: Gingerbread City Hall. Built in 1886. Replaced by the current structure in 1964.


WinnipegNow+Then: On an @NHLJets game day. Incredible that a 15,000 seat arena could be dwarfed by a department store. Eaton’s was the 10th largest department store in the world and at 700,000 square feet was 25% larger than 32 storey, 201 Portage, Winnipeg’s tallest building.


WinnipegNow+Then: Sherbrook Street at Portage Avenue.


WinnipegNow+Then: McKintyre Block at Portage+Main. Awnings to protect pedestrians, bikes propped up on the curbs. Today, lots of places to park a car.


WinnipegNow+Then: Royal Albert Hotel before the terrible glass addition. Soon to be home to the famous Alycia’s Restaurant.


WinnipegNow+Then: Bank of British North America (now Palomino Club). The oldest bank on Banker’s Row. Beside it, Dominion Bank at Main and McDermot. Demolished in 1966.


WinnipegNow+Then: Bank of Montreal under construction in 1913. Designed by McKim, Mead and White, the same architects as Penn Station and the interior of the White House.




WinnipegNow+Then: Corner of Donald and Graham. Gas station replaced by Millenium Library - part of the transition of the area from a downtown residential neighbourhood to large public buildings. (Tribune Building behind left)


WinnipegNow+Then: Albert Street. Showing value of small, old buildings. They create interesting streets & opportunity for small business.


WinnipegNow+Then: Loss of fine grained buildings & retail storefronts has hurt the economy & pedestrian quality of Main Street & downtown.


WinnipegNow+Then: @CBCManitoba building on Portage Avenue. TV broadcasting began from here in 1954, Canada's 4th television station.


WinnipegNow+Then Gray'sAuction @Ex_District_Wpg 2010. Today @kingandbann @chosabican @bronutswpg


WinnipegNow+Then: Construction of beautiful Église du Précieux Sang, St. Boniface in 1968. Is that architect Étienne Gaboury at the top?


WinnipegNow+Then: Main Street at McDermot looking towards Portage. Dominion Bank in the foreground. Merchant's Bank on the left.


WinnipegNow+Then: Gas station near Old Market Square - today @Bodegoes restaurant (slated for demo). Shows the amazing impact of trees.


WinnipegNow+Then: Osborne Village from the 1950's.


WinnipegNow+Then: Mitchell Copp Building on Portage Avenue. Now part of the @CentrepointWpg. Fire reduced its neighbour to one floor.


WinnipegNow+Then: The Tribune Buildings at Graham/Smith. Now a large surface parking lot.


WinnipegNow+Then: Demolition for Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. National Historic Site and beautiful Brutalism.


WinnipegNow+Then: Main and Bannatyne. Ashdown Warehouse burned and rebuilt in 1904. Big4 Sales stuccoed in it 1959, re-bricked in 00's.


WinnipegNow+Then: Public Market then Public Safety Building. What will it be next? #MarketLands


WinnipegNow+Then: Royal Bank in 1909 by Carrère & Hastings (also designed New York Central Library-featured in 1st scene of Ghostbusters)


WinnipegNow+Then via @LBJBrewing -old buildings provide affordable opportunity for start-ups like this. Progress through preservation


WinnipegNow+Then: Dominion Bank on Main Street. Demolished because that's what they did in the late 60's.


WinnipegNow+Then: McDermot at Main Street.


WinnipegNow+Then: Main Street at Portage. A streetscape lost.


WinnipegNow+Then: Bannatyne Avenue. Siberian Elms planted in 1974. Looks like a good boulevard tree option. Seeds be damned


WinnipegNow+Then: City's first post office on Lombard, became Great West Life's first building.


WinnipegNow+Then: Main Street at William Stephenson Way.


WinnipegNow+Then: September 19, 1955 the streetcars stopped running...including the ones that ran on the median of Broadway.


WinnipegNow+Then: The evolution of Hargrave Street, from residential neighbourhood to office district.


WinnipegNow+Then: Before the Richardson Building, there was a cute little gas station at Portage+Main.


WinnipegNow+Then: La cathédrale Saint-Boniface before the devastating 1968 fire.


WinnipegNow+Then: Portage Avenue looking back to Main Street.


WinnipegNow+Then: The WWI soldier at Portage+Main protected by a concrete bunker.


WinnipegNow+Then: McDermot with a missing tooth. Middle building is now home to @Forth_Wpg


WinnipegNow+Then: Ashdown Warehouse. City's first loft condo. Amazing what a good cleaning can do


WinnipegNow+Then: 110 years of Main Street.


WinnipegNow+Then: Majestic Portage Avenue Post Office - replaced by the Dreman Building/Parkade in 1962.


#WinnipegNow+Then: Portage Avenue beside @uwinnipeg


WinnipegNow+Then - Portage Avenue entrance to the Capitol Theatre replaced by Dollarama.


WinnipegNow+Then - Block of small Main Street businesses demolished for Pantages Theatre addition and plaza in 1990


WinnipegNow+Then - The small retail storefronts (and corresponding pedestrian activity) gone from Main Street.


WinnipegNow+Then - When the Grain Exchange Building could be seen beyond the parking lot at Portage+Main. (1960's)


WinnipegNow+Then - first @greatwestlifeca building, before it grew. One of my favourite heritage buildings.


WinnipegNow+Then - 53 years of McDermot Avenue. Slow growth is sometimes a lucky thing.

Courtesy of: @brent_bellamy Twitter

[TorontoDrew]

Extensive and great Peg set. Proof that Main and Portage were better off with pedestrian crossings. I still can't believe people voted not to restore it to how it was all to save a few minutes commute by car.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by Pinus

Mid $600s? Seems overpriced straight from the getgo.

That's for the new condos, there are some older buildings where you can probably get down into the 300's

[240glt]

I see lots of places in the East Village for sale in the $300's, in new buildings. Here's a 1 bed in a 2017 high rise for $240k. Small though

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...n-east-village

Still a little rough around there. I think there's a bit of an East Village discount there still.

I remember riding my bike through there in the early 2000's and having to dodge flying beer bottles and having to keep an eye out for poop & vomit on the bike trail. I'm sure it's gotten much better since then

[franktko]

LOL, looks like that streetcar was burried right there. RIP

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by 240glt

I see lots of places in the East Village for sale in the $300's, in new buildings. Here's a 1 bed in a 2017 high rise for $240k. Small though

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...n-east-village

Still a little rough around there. I think there's a bit of an East Village discount there still.

I remember riding my bike through there in the early 2000's and having to dodge flying beer bottles and having to keep an eye out for poop & vomit on the bike trail. I'm sure it's gotten much better since then

I only looked quickly yesterday when I posted numbers, should have looked more thoroughly lol. There are still lots of sketchy people in EV, but it's getting better quickly.

[MTLskyline]

That Winnipeg post is epic. Like a lot of places a pretty mixed bag. A lot of quality buildings were definitely lost. Although the city has made some nice gains as well.

[J.OT13]

Winnipeg has done better than Ottawa on the historic preservation file. Portage and Main seems to be the only area that was nearly completely destroyed.