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WRA Clinics wants to rebuild downtown HQ, triple its size


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So nice to see them investing in their current location DT, as opposed to moving out to the suburbs!
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This development seems like it would be a good fit for that stretch of Dougall Ave. Those old houses are an eyesore, and this would look much more appropriate.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...enue-1.4582166
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Some big news for downtown.

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...d-for-downtown

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Mayor Drew Dilkens on Wednesday announced three substantial downtown developments that he deemed “amazing” and “incredible,” spurred by the city’s new batch of incentives called the Community Improvement Plan.

The projects include:

A $32.9-million, 120-unit residential building, 16 storeys high, with commercial on the ground floor and underground parking, to be built on a parking lot at the northwest corner of Victoria Avenue and Park Street.

Redeveloping a long-vacant two-storey Pelissier Street bar into a hip five-storey industrial-styled building with commercial on the main floor and 24 industrial-style units above.
And the $13.6-million rejuvenation of the former Radisson Hotel — gutted and left vacant for the last few years — into a high-end hotel, probably a Doubletree, with a new restaurant fronting Riverside Drive.

Total investment for these three projects amounts to $52.1 million. The incentives by the city — if approved by council — add up to $5.9 million. Much of that will come in tax rebates based on the difference between the taxes paid now on the properties, compared to the taxes paid on the redeveloped property, paid out in grants over five or 10 years.

“It’s money in, money out from our perspective and it’s not money we ever would have had without the availability of the program,” the mayor said, explaining how the CIP helped entice these developers to “put their whole foot in the water” when it comes to downtown investment.

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Exciting news .looking forward to renderings.
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Very exciting...and will only be a catalyst for more.
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If you read the article closely and look at the rendering of the Double Tree hotel, I'm pretty sure the project would finally take care of the long standing empty lot (Docherty hole) that has been present at the side of the Radisson since Bill Docherty developed those lands.





The smaller 5 storey project


No renders for the 16 storey building, would also fill a large empty long standing lot in downtown.
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All I can say is that It’s about damn time!!!!! Great news and hopefully just the beginning of new proposals! I work right across the street from the empty lot where the 16 floor tower will be built, so happy about that too.
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So the law school might be moving downtown after all!?

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...own-law-school
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So the law school might be moving downtown after all!?

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...own-law-school
I really hope not. The university shouldn't be building outside of the main campus because the main campus is already too small and would benefit greatly from expansion.
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$50-million, 261-unit condo project in three, six-storey buildings on a long-vacant commercial property at Walker Road and Ducharme Street


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So the law school might be moving downtown after all!?

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...own-law-school
Great news! Hopefully they can make it happen this time!
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St. Clair College expanding their DT campus, moving 1000 students into the One Riverside Drive building

http://windsorite.ca/2018/06/st-clai...wntown-campus/

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...dents-downtown
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Great to hear about more students in the downtown area.Maybe developers will build a student residence.
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Great to hear about more students in the downtown area.Maybe developers will build a student residence.
Well, there’s already the 16 floor luxury rental tower proposed for the corner of Victoria and Park. I’m pretty sure the developer is going ahead with this specifically with those 5,0000 international students in mind that now go to St. Clair College. Most of the students are from India, and the developer is also Indian, so I’m just putting two and two together.
The college also said it wants to partner with the city on the new central library, adding more classroom space as well as student residences! I’m pretty hopeful that more developers will come forward with even more new proposals, especially with DT now seeing more interest from developers!
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With the tariff fights between US and Canada happening right now, what's happening with Gordie Howe??
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With the tariff fights between US and Canada happening right now, what's happening with Gordie Howe??
Construction to start at the end of the year!

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-n..._autoplay=true

Gordie Howe bridge will be the longest cable stayed Bridge in North America.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...rica-1.4734671
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Its towers will also be the tallest bridge on the continent by quite a bit. Anyway, the U.S. side held its official groundbreaking yesterday, though prep work has been ongoing for months, now.

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On Tuesday, government officials from Washington, Ottawa, Lansing, Detroit and Windsor gathered in a weedy, dusty lot in the Delray neighborhood to mark the launch of work on the Detroit site of the bridge. The work is in preparation for full-scale construction of the bridge expected to start as soon as the first week of October. Along with the bridge, there will be a 167-acre U.S. customs plaza that will spread from the bridge’s footprint.
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The planned Gordie Howe bridge across the Detroit River will be the longest "cable-stayed" bridge in North America at 2,798 feet, A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature of such bridges is the cables form a fan-like pattern. The span will connect Detroit and Windsor by linking Interstate 75 and Interstate 96 in Michigan with the new extension of Highway 401 in Ontario.










If I have any problem with it it's the big-@ss port-of-entry on the American side which essentially splits Delray in half. It's not like there was a whole heckuva lot there to begin with, but it's going to make sure the entry feels very low-intensity and not particularly urban. I do wonder if all we'll see are some suburban-styled industrial parks pop up around the plaza in the years to come. Because that's about all I imagine will ever be built around that way, now.



Just kind of wish they'd have been a bit more pro-active in streamlining the the American plaza, but that's literally my only gripe. I'm loving the multi-use path on the north side of the bridge. The cyclist community in Detroit fought really hard for it and never let up on MDOT or the bridge authority for the long duration of the planning of the bridge.
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