Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Professional Money management Sovereign in for of a brochure Arthur Chipman of Fth 204 Winnipeg free press local september 1994 Section Brian Cole 6977292 email b1 in this close counts Arena will be Gold mine for few Lucky neighbors proposed Arena Sites by Nick Martin and Paul Samyn staff reporters servicing a downtown Arena with sewers and water would Cost less than Mil lion at either the proposed Winni Peg convention Centre site or in the Forks the chief City plan Ner theres plenty of Winni Peg transit would actually make and no Road projects would be required that the City Doest plan to do Doug Kalcsics said weve always said a downtown location is a better location than any other Kalcsics both the Forks site now being touted by a group of 44 business people working on financing for a new Home for the Winnipeg jets and the convention Centre site preferred by key politicians and previous reports Are considered to be downtown Adamant the downtown City Glen Murray fort was Adamant yesterday that a minimum of million should be added to a Forks site for the Extension of York and Mary but Kalcsics said such Street works Are value plans Are to build some form of Extension regardless of Arena the administration has prepared Ballpark figures on three Poten tial Arena Sites the South Side of York Avenue at Carlton immediately South of the convention it would Cost to relocate existing underground services when Carlton Street is closed for an Are the actual land value of a closed Block of Carlton Street would Likely add about to South of water on City owned land North of the Forks million for sewer and the North Side of Pioneer ave East of the railway tracks and North of the Forks including relocation of some exist ing services on water by adding a few buses on exist ing Winnipeg transit could net a year in increased a decision a1 compared to the it makes servicing games at Polo Kalcsics he said a downtown location should increase the numbers of people taking the bus and the City has pinpointed existing downtown parking spots that could be i dont think anyone envision ing a sea of parking around a build Kalcsics either site has enough existing when you compare it to Polo but Why is the Forks now being pushed As a preferred location when the Best information up to this Point convinced most players to opt for the Conven Tion Centre spot none of the 44 business people who have banded together to arrange financing for a new Arena will explain that for the but sources say the Forks offers better architectural greater Revenue generating Poten tial and More Ideal traffic flow configurations than the convention Centre they Are now saying that the site adjacent to the Forks is not Only More viable but less costly than the Winnipeg convention Cen Premier Gary Filmon said Filmon said he is open to the possibility of a move near the Forks but has yet to indicate any support for such a while Many details Are still one thing is Clear the stakes Are High in this Gaff in City of Winnipeg Forks renewal Parks Canada in main line you choose there Are going to be winners and losers throughout this pro predicts Norman executive Vic president of the Winnipeg chamber of hotels and stores closest to the Arena would be in the Best position to reap the benefits from the roughly million additional people who would be drawn annually to an a1990 study found that business retailers expect their sales to increase by per cent annually with a new downtown for if the Arena lands next to the convention the Holiday inn crowne Plaza is in a great position to on the other the Westin hotel would come out on top if the Arena ended up on its Doorstep next to the where do you think the new Arena should be built o the Forks o Winnipeg convention Centre a other o no new Arena results will be published in a coming mall your ballot to City Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain r2x 3b6 or fax to Carlton Street would be closed at Broadway Gordon Preece Winnipeg free press Forks Arena query elicits three Way split by Nick Martin and Stevens wild City Hall reporters paying tens of millions of dollars for a new Arena instead of sticking with the existing Winnipeg Arena makes no says its a waste of he said downtown last but Antoine Miller reckons a new Arena in the Forks area would be a great it May bring More people around to those Little i like enthused Winni Eggers interviewed downtown last night were evenly split three some favored a new Arena at the some declared there is absolutely no Way a new Arena should be built and some simply shrugged of it he saying politicians will impose decisions on them regardless of what they that an Arena might destroy the use up All that Green said a City who declined to give his in wondering where there going to get All this Money amid cutbacks and its the Forks supposed to be a meeting to get away for some one woman the Forks should stay As a Leisure kind of Cindy Krizuk adding the private sector should pay for a new its a Good it should be Kip Davidson Only the Forks is a Good area for an i dont care about the John Hayes theres a lot of space there in which to build a rink said a woman who give her everybody Doest like so everybody have to John Mcallen said the Forks is a terrible place for an i dont like Mcallen the Forks is a Beautiful Why spoil it Why cant the jets play at the existing Arena but a woman waiting for a bus on Broadway last night thought the Forks was an Ideal Arena we need the it puts us in the major leagues with places like new York and said Irene Why we have a world class hockey Arena it would add a lot of class to our a Man who gave his name Only As Reggie said if Winnipeg had a Nice maybe the jets would play we cant expect a Stanley cup said unless we have a Stanley cup suspects daughter angry ramp accused flying incas Bald Santin staff reporter the daughter of a Portage la Prairie Man charged in the slaying of a childhood Friend says the ramp misled her about his Anna said ramp in Portage told her monday her Ken was in custody but was too Busy to come to the we were told he was in Nicholson said yesterday during a Telephone interview from her Home in red they told me things were too Busy for me to talk to him or to come Down and see they said he was going to be in court tuesday and to Call Back wednes in an ramp spokesman said yesterday that Nicholson has not been in jail in but held in custody by the Ontario provincial police in Sioux Lookout since his arrest the body of Roy was found by police monday morning at a Home in the Island Park area of ramp Tammy Murray said investigators left for Sioux Lookout yesterday to question a boyhood Friend of who has been charged with second degree murder in the Murray said an autopsy revealed that Smith had been shot twice in the she said the chief medical examiners office is still trying to de Termine when Smith was Murray said Nicholson was arrested by the Opp adding she expected he would be returned to Manitoba late last night or some time this Murray would not disclose where Nicholson had been found in North Western Anna Nicholson said she was told by her fathers sister that he had been arrested in Sioux 180 Kilometres Southwest of Sioux look Nicholson said she Doest know Why ramp would mislead her about her fathers whereabouts or Why they would not let family members talk to we dont know if he has a Law Nicholson Murray had left the office and other officers refused to comment in her absence when the free press called for comment on Nicholson Nicholson said she last talked to her father by Telephone adding he did not indicate h was in any Nicholson said her father used to work in red Lake As a Miner but had been unemployed for the past two Smith was described As a wealthy businessman who owned several properties in Charleswood Bridge one step closer to reality by Nick Martin staff reporter sew ers and Bridges May not be re paired Over the next 30 years but the new Charles Wood Bridge will always be up to that a key element of the cites partnership with Bdl City Law yer Linda Kerr told works and operations committee the one thing we dont touch in our budgets is obligations to third Kerr said the City would have to perform regular maintenance on the Bridge and Bdl would carry out major maintenance for the life of an innovative lease arrangement whether or not Council spends Money on infrastructure maintenance Glen Murray fort Rouge lamented that his Ward contains five Bridges that dont get the same level of maintenance of potholes and cracks because of budget me and safely Hyman River Heights voted yesterday to reject All seven tenders for the Charleswood Bridge project and divert funding to renewing existing but the majority recommended that City Council approve bpm Ltd tender at its meeting even though five of the six committee members had previously opposed the controversial project hiring in Manitoba the Bottom line is Council approved the Charleswood said chairman Terry Duguid North Kerr said Bdl will hire entirely within Manitoba for Bridge con which is expected to take place in the Bridge is to Cross the Assiniboine connecting Haney Street in Charleswood and Moray Street in the provinces share of the project effectively covers roadwork and other Kerr sex because it is not involved in the lease arrangement for the Bridge Gord a senior Bridge Engi said Bdl must turn Over a Bridge in 2024 that is in virtually new its like were taking Over a bran new Kerr said the City will make progressively higher lease be ginning with on and ending with a payment in works and operations commissioner Rod Mcrae estimated the Deal saves taxpayers million Over traditional Public it will also free about million that was to have been borrowed in the 996 capital John Angus Norbert urged that the City consider making its lease payments from current rather thin borrowing the charges in the capital even Rick a Bridge was enthusiastic about the this is going to be very Success Ful and a Good Deal for the taxpayers of said Boychuk to Concrete and Limestone abutment Handrail pedestrian level lighting on Bridge rail vehicle Roadway cobra lighting vehicle Roadway i combination three metre wide corridor Bridge Overlook with Concrete and Limestone Handrail Conof Tif and Urr Vitone abutment Handrail aluminium Handrail with Concrete posts ;