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The Charleswood Shopping Centre Plaza is a community shopping centre on Grant Avenue. At one time, it was an enclosed mall and went by the ...

Northern Crown Bank, Portage Avenue and Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, circa 1979, now demolished. Note Carter Motors next door. The site now ...

Sorry for the length of time between posts. I have written extensively on Polo Park in this blog. One of the consistent tenants has been a...

After a long delay the decision on where Manitoba Hydro will constructs its transmission line from the north has been decided. It will go d...

Today is the infamous Banjo Bowl in Winnipeg where the Winnipeg Blue Bombers play the Saskatchewan Roughriders. It will be the fifth consec...

School is back after the Labour Day long weekend. I can well imagine that the streets are going to be choked with parents, students and teac...

I don't think anyone can not help notice that Winnipeg Sun boxes that have sprouted up all over town. For many weeks now, the Sun has b...

The recent announcement that the Manitoba government will allow 300 more slots at the South Beach Casino in exchange for the casino going n...

Highway 75 is the main link between Winnipeg and the border and the crossing at Emerson, Manitoba . It is the eighth busiest crossing in Can...

I don't think anyone can be unmoved by the woman who discovered her dog sitting on a counter months after it was supposed to have been ...

It is time for the Winnipeg Zoo to go. The city of Winnipeg shouldn't be in the zoo business. It should either shut it down or the city...

After location, the next important decision a mall manager can make is content. In Polo Park's case the first thought was the anchor sto...

Polo Park is going through it third major expansion since its inception. This does not include development in its parking lot of restaurants...

Last time, I talked about Polo Park and how it contributed to the demise of retailing downtown, how it was physically unattractive and how i...

Shopping malls have their fans as well as detractors. Winnipeg had one of the earliest malls in Canada with Polo Park built in 1959. Most p...

It is once again another summer of construction in Winnipeg. The long backlog of avoiding re-building infrastructure has finally caught up w...