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Brent Bellamy
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Imagining what the ‘Windy Corner’ could one day be
March 11, 2024
By Brent Bellamy, Associate + Creative Director Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press Open Portage and Main. Four simple words. Elections have been fought over them. Friends have become temporary enemies because of them. Family dinners have been ruined by them. A Winnipeg debate that has stirred local emotions and bewildered outsiders for more than […]
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Housing fund just one piece of the puzzle
November 21, 2023
The amount of ink being spilled over Canada's housing crisis is enough to make the global climate crisis feel neglected and envious.
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Nine ideas for the province and Winnipeg
November 21, 2023
Nine city-building ideas that Manitoba's new provincial government might consider to make Winnipeg a more livable and prosperous city.
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Portage Place and a second chance
November 21, 2023
From Rosser Avenue in Brandon to Yonge Street in Toronto, Canadian cities of every shape and size built a downtown indoor shopping mall in the 1980s. These developments were a last desperate salvo in the battle between traditional main street retail and the new suburban shopping mall...
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Building housing—quickly
November 20, 2023
The federal government is trying to tackle Canada’s housing crisis by working directly with cities through a $4-billion program called the Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF). The initiative is designed to help cities rapidly increase the number of homes being built to level market demand and in turn stabilize housing costs and increase affordability.
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Setting the tone in Morden
August 13, 2023
Imagine strolling through a great neighbourhood where the streets are lined with majestic trees and new houses sit alongside those that have stood for generations. The sound of laughter fills the air as children skip past you on their way to school.
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Time for a plan on rail lands
July 23, 2023
Last February, headlines were made across North America when a derailed train in East Palestine, Ohio released an inferno of toxic chemicals into the air. Shortly after, with those dramatic images still in the news, a derailment on a Winnipeg overpass that closed McPhillips Street for several days shook the city, and the generations-old discussion about rail relocation resurfaced.
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Winnipeg’s three Rs: recreation, roads, rapid transit
July 3, 2023
The Winnipeg Free Press and Probe Research recently conducted a poll asking people to identify their top infrastructure spending priority for the City of Winnipeg. The results reveal Winnipeggers have diverse opinions about how to improve their quality of life.
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Reimagining downtown — for people
June 11, 2023
In a post-pandemic world that has redefined the nature of office work, cities across North America are looking for ways to diversify their city centres, moving away from relying on transient office workers and towards communities of permanent residents. CentrePlan 2050 is no different, with an overarching goal of reestablishing downtown as the collection of diverse, urban residential neighbourhoods that it once was.
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Need more congestion? Route 90 plan is the $500-M ticket
May 23, 2023
The City of Winnipeg is currently asking for public feedback on a new design for widening Kenaston Boulevard between Ness and Taylor avenues, including related sewer upgrades and an expansion of the St. James Bridge. The city is hoping that other levels of government will share the cost, but Ottawa has already rejected applications twice before, in 2015 and 2018, and the province’s Multi-Year Infrastructure Investment Strategy makes no mention of the project. This likely leaves Winnipeg taxpayers to foot the bill on their own.
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