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Brent Bellamy
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City should scramble to transform important Village intersection
April 29, 2024
The corner of River and Osborne is the gateway to Osborne Village, Winnipeg’s highest-density neighbourhood and a rare walkable, complete community in the city. In our collective imagination, the Village strip is a street with bustling sidewalks and vibrant public spaces, set around a series of eclectic shops and restaurants.
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Housing is a puzzle with many pieces
April 8, 2024
Last week, a proposed mixed-use development on Sherbrook Street in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood was made public as the project moved through the city’s approval processes.
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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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