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Friends of Upper Fort Garry: Time to Give Up?

It’s been over 12 years since a rag-tag group of millionaires banded together to stop a high-rise apartment complex from being built on a surface parking lot in downtown Winnipeg. The promise was that the parking lot, adjacent to the former site of historic Upper Fort Garry, would become an interpretive centre — part of…

March 1, 2020 in city council, philanthropy, urban planning.

The Upper Fort Garry Saga: Please make it stop

The ongoing saga of Upper Fort Garry dragged on into it’s 10th year this week as the Friends of Upper Fort Garry pushed for an extension on their use of a non-compliant parking lot. You may recall that 2 years ago The Friends received special permission to operate a gravel parking lot adjacent to the…

September 8, 2017 in city council, philanthropy, urban planning.

The Upper Fort Garry adventure continues

Today, the downtown development committee of the City of Winnipeg voted in favour of approving a temporary surface parking lot to support the Friends of Upper Fort Garry. –fp– This was a bad decision. To understand, a quick remedial Upper Fort Garry lesson is required. In 2007 Crystal Developers signed a deal to build a…

May 25, 2015 in city council, philanthropy, politics, urban planning.

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