tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post8483900912341519026..comments2024-01-14T14:15:01.131-06:00Comments on The Rise and Sprawl: Kelly House up next?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-63124099649038716442008-11-23T20:40:00.000-06:002008-11-23T20:40:00.000-06:00This is the LAST example of the residential archit...This is the LAST example of the residential architecture which was prevalent in the area during the first Winnipeg boom of the 1880's. Once it's gone it can never be broght back. WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE PARKING LOTS, WE NEED TO BUILD ON THE ONES THAT ARE ALREADY IN EXISTENCE. If business-people threaten to leave the city then bid them good riddance, and ensure they are never welcomed back. The once beautiful Portage Avenue is ruined by two unsightly overpasses and the monolithic and anti-human Portage Place Mall, which merely serves as a day care centre for the city's worst characters. I would rather have beautiful old buildings even if empty than hideous modernist shoebox design structures or windy, derelict looking and scary parking lots. Even in the suburbs old early 20th century cottages and Craftsman Homes are now being razed to make place for hideously ugly grey stucco boxes. Come on people, THIS IS NOT PROGRESS! We are losing our history and this is about the only advantage Winnipeg has over other Western Canadian cities. CAN PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THIS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-6131504305369103972008-10-10T12:21:00.000-05:002008-10-10T12:21:00.000-05:00Related: http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2007/02/01/thi...Related: http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2007/02/01/things-were-better-in-the-80s/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-62644221558686375012008-10-09T21:01:00.000-05:002008-10-09T21:01:00.000-05:00The owner of this place operates across the street...The owner of this place operates across the street from it, Ricoh (sp) and has wanted the house torn down for about a decade now.<BR/><BR/>We have made repeated requests to Heritage Winnipeg about the property, its historic value and potential purchase/investment. We have never heard back from them.<BR/><BR/>Should this property fall to a fate of as the Gray's Auction building on King, and all other buildings who suffered prior, those in power at city hall will have made it crystal clear they choose not to support the heart of the city, but rather let that heart languish and die a slow death. <BR/><BR/>I would urge the readers here to do what is possible and contact the city, the owner and heritage Winnipeg to place an opposition before them all in order to keep Kelly House and begin a restoration with a new owner who has the ability to see potential, not parking in property.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-23868829043622650452008-10-09T09:29:00.000-05:002008-10-09T09:29:00.000-05:00To be fair I think this is quite different than th...To be fair I think this is quite different than the Albert Street Business block. <BR/><BR/>The Kelly House is not burried inside of a 1920's one story, the Kelly House is not being lost so a heritage hotel can be renovated next door etc.<BR/><BR/>Apples and Oranges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-68317661498184880552008-10-08T23:32:00.000-05:002008-10-08T23:32:00.000-05:00This city keeps fucking itself in the ass.Ooops! I...This city keeps fucking itself in the ass.<BR/><BR/>Ooops! I already said that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-30055268710501882302008-10-08T21:36:00.000-05:002008-10-08T21:36:00.000-05:00I am sure the new planning director will understan...I am sure the new planning director will understand this issue and take action.<BR/><BR/>Ya right.<BR/><BR/>People in powerful positions in this city have no backbone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com