Workers with Merit Iron were busy Sunday morning as they put an 80-foot steel truss into place connecting the Convention Centre skywalk over the Japanese Gardens west of the Delta Winnipeg Hotel at St. Mary Avenue and Carlton Street.
This is the final phase and the biggest section to be installed of the weather-protected walkway, which [...]

The new terminal building at the James Armstrong Richardson International Airport has passed two million construction hours, with approximately 500 workers now employed throughout the site on a daily basis.
The airport said today that the redevelopment is expected to contribute 6,370 person-years of employment to the local market, including $273 million in wages. GDP is [...]

After fears late last year that Kelly House would be torn down to make way for a parking lot, the historic Winnipeg building is now being renovated, as shown below on Tuesday. The house — located at 88 Adelaide Street — was in jeopardy in 2008, when its owners wanted its heritage status removed. The owners [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz
Forget about those rumoured traffic delays once the Disraeli Bridge goes under construction, because traffic should flow just fine.
Both the province and city announced plans this morning to leave the bridge — which 42,000 vehicles use per day — open while undergoing repairs.
Fears were that traffic would be snarled for up to [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein

Kenaston Boulevard will be completely closed to northbound and southbound traffic this weekend for the repair of the railway crossing between Lowson Crescent and Rothwell Road.
Effective at 7 p.m. tonight, the area will be blocked off until 6 a.m. on Monday, October 5.
The primary detour around the closure will be Sterling Lyon [...]

Motorists who travel on King Street near Logan Avenue will be dealing with construction in the area beginning on Monday, October 5. The city says a new sewer is being installed and will result in traffic restrictions and transit reroutes until the end of January 2010.
Crews will be working in the area from 7:00 [...]

Winnipeg businessman David Asper and his company, Creswin Properties, were granted another year today to put together the retail development at Polo Park. Profits from the project will eventually fund the new Winnipeg Blue Bombers stadium at the University of Manitoba.
Ken Hildahl, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Winnipeg Football Club said the [...]

It could be 16 months or longer before construction begins on the vacant land once occupied by the Winnipeg Arena in St. James.
CBC News reported late Thursday that developer Shindico is holding off on its plans at the moment due to the sluggish economy.
Local businessman David Asper is relying on new retail development on the [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz
Work on the eastbound span of the Fort Garry Bridge on Bishop Grandin Boulevard is nearly complete. Beginning Saturday, eastbound traffic will be rerouted back onto the eastbound bridge.
There will still be construction in the area, so there may be traffic delays.
The westbound structure’s temporary sidewalk will not be removed until after [...]

Construction crews need to work longer hours at night and on weekends, this according to one City Councillor.
Scott Fielding has been trying to get stiffer schedules put in place for the last three years. Fielding draws the comparison from other cities in Canada and the U.S. that impose workers to put in more hours. Fielding [...]

City of Winnipeg workers are seen here laying plywood on top of a massive pothole Wednesday afternoon. The hole, which has been described as the size of a bathtub, ate up the front end of a flatbed delivery truck on northbound Pembina Hwy at the westbound Perimeter Hwy exit at about 1 p.m.
Spring is still [...]

A Brandon police officer cordons off part of a construction site where a human skeleton was found yesterday. The location in the 3000-block of McDonald Avenue, where a hydraulic excavator discovered the remains, is now considered a crime scene.