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| Genstar's Jerry Klein (from left),Winnipeg Councillors Dan Vandal and Transcona's own Russ Wyatt (finally in from the cold), and Genstar's Greg Jasper. Walking the walk and talking the talk. Lonely no more, Genstar finds a suitable development partner. Congrats, Genstar! (Ken Gigliotti/Winnipeg Free Press) |
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| New suburb for city Transcona development to boast 2,000 homes, mirror Linden Woods Winnipeg Free Press Saturday, December 6th, 2003 By Mary Agnes Welch A new housing development could put 2,000 new homes in Transcona over the next 15 years, eating up one of the last big tracts of land open for immediate building in Winnipeg. The city has agreed to negotiate a joint venture with Genstar Developments to combine tracts of vacant land totalling about 300 acres in west Transcona, just north of the big-box stores on Regent Avenue and east of Peguis Street. It will be the first sizable subdivision built in Transcona since Genstar created Kildonan Meadows more than a decade ago. (full article) |
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| Elizabeth Fleming of the Provincial Council of Women, an agency critical of the Waverley West project, said she would rather see new homes built on land already slated for neighbourhood development, including the west Transcona lands. But she also said her group wants any government entering into a development deal to make the terms public, especially the financial terms. |
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