CentrePlan 2050
Help us make a long-term plan to get more people living and visiting Downtown
We are making a long-term plan that will guide investment and development in Downtown Winnipeg for the next 30 years. CentrePlan 2050 will guide investment in Downtown parks, streets, and buildings. The plan will help transform:
- What Downtown looks like
- How we get around
- How we experience Downtown
The goal of CentrePlan 2050 is to get more people living and visiting Downtown.
Key themes
To create CentrePlan 2050, we are asking for feedback on five key themes. To learn more about each key theme, click on the images below.
Help us make a long-term plan to get more people living and visiting Downtown
We are making a long-term plan that will guide investment and development in Downtown Winnipeg for the next 30 years. CentrePlan 2050 will guide investment in Downtown parks, streets, and buildings. The plan will help transform:
- What Downtown looks like
- How we get around
- How we experience Downtown
The goal of CentrePlan 2050 is to get more people living and visiting Downtown.
Key themes
To create CentrePlan 2050, we are asking for feedback on five key themes. To learn more about each key theme, click on the images below.
Background
Winnipeg’s Downtown is the economic and cultural heart of our city. Downtown has the highest concentration of employment and is our central hub for innovation and creativity. When Downtown Winnipeg thrives, all of Winnipeg thrives.
Over the last decade, our Downtown has made significant strides to create a lively and dynamic place for people to live and visit. We want to ensure the pandemic doesn’t threaten the significant progress that we’ve made.
Goal of CentrePlan 2050
The themes of CentrePlan 2050 are all connected. They all support the goal of CentrePlan 2050 – to get more people living and visiting Downtown.
To get more people Downtown, for more hours every day, we need to make it easy to get to, and easy to get around Downtown. We need to design buildings, streets, parks, and public spaces that people love, are easy to get around, and where people feel safe. We also need to foster diverse arts, culture, and entertainment opportunities.
Building from our strengths
We’re not starting CentrePlan 2050 from scratch. There are over 80 plans and strategies that look at our Downtown, developed by the City and key Downtown stakeholders, since 2000. The project team is reviewing these previous Downtown studies and strategies and engaging with community stakeholders and residents to determine which goals and actions to include in CentrePlan 2050.
As part of this project, we will also be creating Downtown Urban Design Guidelines, a Streetscape Design Standards Manual, a design of key Downtown Bike Routes, and design of Graham Avenue.
CentrePlan 2050 will provide the roadmap for the future of our Downtown. It will help set our priorities and actions. It will also ensure ongoing dialogue with our community partners.
Ongoing Downtown projects
CentrePlan 2050 will build on the progress and plans already taking place in our Downtown. Downtown stakeholders are currently investing in exciting projects that will help move us toward the goal of having more people visiting and living in Downtown Winnipeg.
Development and revitalization projects currently underway are helping green our Downtown and creating safe and accessible public spaces. CentrePlan 2050 can help in the coordination of future investment and development, so they complement these projects and build on the key themes highlighted in the plan.
Examples of key Downtown projects include the Market Lands development, revitalization of Air Canada Window Park, Central Park enhancements, redevelopment of Odeon Park by Burton Cummings Theatre, and engagement on new designs for the public space at Portage & Main.
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How can we help?
If you have questions or require alternate formats, interpretation or any additional accommodations to participate, please visit engage.winnipeg.ca/help or contact:
centreplan2050@winnipeg.ca | |
204-986-4243 |
Timeline
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Project Begins
CentrePlan 2050 has finished this stageSpring 2022
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Information gathering and analysis
CentrePlan 2050 has finished this stageSummer 2022 to Winter 2023
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Stakeholder workshop and outreach
CentrePlan 2050 has finished this stageSummer 2022 to Winter 2023
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Phase 1 public and stakeholder engagement
CentrePlan 2050 has finished this stageSpring 2023
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Prepare draft policies, guidelines, and designs
CentrePlan 2050 has finished this stageSummer 2023
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Phase 2 stakeholder engagement
CentrePlan 2050 is currently at this stageFall 2023
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Refine draft policies, guidelines, and designs
this is an upcoming stage for CentrePlan 2050Winter 2024
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Phase 3 public and stakeholder engagement
this is an upcoming stage for CentrePlan 2050Spring 2024
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Recommend CentrePlan 2050 to Council
this is an upcoming stage for CentrePlan 2050Fall 2024
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Plan implementation*
this is an upcoming stage for CentrePlan 2050*Subject to Council approval and funding
Documents & maps
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Downtown maps
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What we heard - Phase 1
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Phase 1 Public Engagement Summary - November 2023 (2.83 MB) (pdf)
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Phase 1 Public Engagement Summary Appendices (full) - November 2023 (29.5 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix A - Promotional material (152 KB) (pdf)
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Appendix B - Living & visiting Downtown (10.8 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix C - Greening Downtown (3.8 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix D - Getting around Downtown (5.21 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix E - Building Downtown (4.02 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix F - Re-imagining Graham Avenue (3.69 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix G - Youth engagement (816 KB) (pdf)
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Appendix H - Exchange District Residents' workshop (1.5 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix I - Open house feedback (6.6 MB) (pdf)
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Appendix J - Map of survey respondents (117 KB) (pdf)
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Open house boards - Phase 1
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CentrePlan 2050 - (all open house boards) (15.1 MB) (pdf)
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1. CentrePlan 2050 - Living & visiting Downtown - May 2023 (2.78 MB) (pdf)
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2. CentrePlan 2050 - Greening Downtown - May 2023 (864 KB) (pdf)
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3. CentrePlan 2050 - Getting around Downtown - May 2023 (7.57 MB) (pdf)
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4. CentrePlan 2050 - Building Downtown - May 2023 (4.43 MB) (pdf)
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5. CentrePlan 2050 - Re-imagining Graham Avenue - May 2023 (6.68 MB) (pdf)
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