True North redevelopment plan for Portage Place met with cautious optimism

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A plan to transform Winnipeg's Portage Place into a "downtown community campus" was met with cautious optimism after True North Real Estate Development unveiled more details about its redevelopment proposal for the beleaguered, 36-year-old mall.
The development arm of True North Sports and Entertainment plans to spend $550 million over three years on an adaptive reuse of Portage Place, starting with the construction of 15-storey health-care tower on the east side of the Portage Avenue complex.
That tower would house a primary-care clinic, walk-in clinic, dialysis centre and addictions medicine clinic as well as an expansion of the Pan Am Clinic.
True North also plans to dismantle the glass atrium in the mall to reopen Edmonton Street between Central Park and Graham Avenue, build a 16-storey residential tower with a grocery store on the main floor and create a community centre and space for community organizations in the centre of the mall.
Kate Kehler of the Socal Planning Council of Winnipeg said she is pleased to see True North address many of the criticisms levelled against an earlier proposal by Starlight Investments to redevelop the mall.

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That place needs to been rip down its a mess 😮😮😮

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More reason NOT to go to Downtown Winnipeg!