(06-10-2021, 08:21 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: Next door to it on Strasburg the apartment building has lots of work occuring, the entire parking lot has been ripped up and there's now a large hole and a crane on site but I can't seem to find anything on what is occuring there.

(06-11-2021, 08:58 AM)robdrimmie Wrote: I live in the neighbourhood, and my wife heard from a friend of hers who knows someone in the building (so this is at least three degrees of hearsay and requires several grains of salt, but I will say that the Alpine school parent rumour mill seems to have a decent success rate) who said that all the parking is being completely renovated. All at the same time apparently, leaving the resident without a place to park for a lengthy period.

(06-11-2021, 09:11 AM)ZEBuilder Wrote:

(06-11-2021, 08:58 AM)robdrimmie Wrote: I live in the neighbourhood, and my wife heard from a friend of hers who knows someone in the building (so this is at least three degrees of hearsay and requires several grains of salt, but I will say that the Alpine school parent rumour mill seems to have a decent success rate) who said that all the parking is being completely renovated. All at the same time apparently, leaving the resident without a place to park for a lengthy period.

The entire parking lot is definitely ripped up so that would make sense but why would they need a mobile crane to redo the parking lot? The hole they had dug when I was by was rather deep and much deeper then required to redo the subbase for a parking lot which is why I was wondering if something else was going on.

(06-10-2021, 09:04 PM)Bytor Wrote: "Fischer-Hallman", BTW. Two hyphenated words, not one. :-)

(06-11-2021, 09:27 AM)robdrimmie Wrote:

(06-11-2021, 09:11 AM)ZEBuilder Wrote: The entire parking lot is definitely ripped up so that would make sense but why would they need a mobile crane to redo the parking lot? The hole they had dug when I was by was rather deep and much deeper then required to redo the subbase for a parking lot which is why I was wondering if something else was going on.

I just asked her about it again, at least taking my mediocre memory out of the chain, and I had forgotten that they are adding two floors so they need to do a bunch of work on the foundation too.

(06-13-2021, 09:16 PM)KevinL Wrote: 595 will be a new building that contains a parking garage for itself and 593, and more apartments above that. Not sure how many floors. I think the property on 599 is being used as a staging area for that work as opposed to developing something there, but I'm not certain.

(07-12-2021, 04:54 PM)ac3r Wrote: EngageWR is running a survey to get public input on what could be done with the nuclear bunker around Freeport Bridge: https://www.engagewr.ca/the-regions-nuclear-bunker

Tl;dr: it would cost a ton of money to repair and maintain...for no real reason. They want your input on how and why it could be saved, but don't seem to be very interested in why it should not be saved. Of all things we could spend our money on, this should not be it.