ST. BONIFACE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Developer hopes to turn former Canada Packers site into urban village featuring multi-family homes, affordable housing, local retail options.
September 26, 2019 — “A Calgary-based developer’s goal of turning 165 acres of industrial land in St. Boniface into the city’s next great neighbourhood will be evaluated Monday, when the city’s property and development committee reviews its secondary plan.
In 2016, for a little under $10 million, a numbered company including Olexa Developments purchased the plot of land—stretching between Marion and Archibald streets and abutted by the CN Sprague and Emerson rail lines to the east and west—with the intent to develop it into an urban ‘village,’ replete with high- and medium-density housing, pedestrian-geared retail options and light-industrial or commercial business space.”
Waldman, Ben. "St. Boniface industrial revolution", The Free Press, The Winnipeg Free Press.