People need to park their cars, but when gravel lots replace functional, beautiful, and historic architecture, it may very well be time to rethink things.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
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6 comments:
It's so sad to think that hideously ugly parking spot is less than a block from Portage and Main. When I am showing visitors around Winnipeg, I always try to distract them to try to prevent them from seeing that lot. It's so embarrassing. Despite all that we've learned (and realised from our mistakes) in the last 40 years about urban planning, here in Winnipeg we keep tearing down more and more historical buildings to build more and more parking lots, even when there is a surplus of on-street parking. Alas, I suppose we shall get what we really want. We will be a bland non-descript North American city, and a poor and cold one too.
Built in 1898, the McIntyre Block was the first building constructed in Western Canada for the specific purpose of leasing out office space to different tenants. Buildings were built for a company's office/retail space, with additonal space leased to other firms/enterprises, but with the McIntyre, there was no 'anchor tenant--it was just built to let out and make money.
Obviously, it was demolished needlessly, and like the doomed Smart Bag building on Pacific, it was perfectly structurally sound, up to code, and modernized. But why let the truth get in the way of demolition?
Your photo is haunting, and the fence that extends up to Main St. shows the property line, the McIntyre was to the right of that, and another building was to the left.
Wasn't there a gas station and parking lot where the Richardson Building now stands? Seems like one corner of the intersection always has to be underutilized.
well at least that ONE car has somewhere to park!
geez lets look at the positives guys
Thank god there's a silver lining.
One of the first thinks I noticed about downtown Winnipeg when I moved here from downtown Toronto six months ago was the large amount of surface parking areas. It seemed to me to be such a waste of space.
Tim
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