MAY 2025 developers who share her vision. She says the city is “really fortunate to have developers who are fearless – who can look an historic building in downtown, and envision a new life for that building and a new neighbourhood for the community.” She says Winnipeg is also fortunate to have a number of local contractors with the skill and experience to help realize those new buildings and communities. When selecting those contractors for their in-house development projects, she says they look for “people who embody the Winnipeg spirit, people who are compassionate, people who are willing to solve problems and look for solutions, and people who are committed to downtown” – and she says there are no shortage of those kinds of partners. Some examples of those partners include Bocksteel Construction, Jilmark Construction, and Concord Projects – all industry leading companies with client-first approaches and sterling reputations in the Manitoba. Concord Projects, for instance, locally-based and highly-respected contractor with expertise in all areas of general contracting, construction management, project coordination and engineering. They are a company that’s been in business over 45 years, and their portfolio includes over 1,000 successful projects, so their reliability cannot be questioned. CentreVenture highly values that kind of reliability. Looking ahead, CentreVenture is also focused on working with faith-based organizations to revitalize historic church properties. Many of those inner-city buildings are over a century old, and “a lot of them need a little bit of love.” Rochelle hopes that CentreVenture can play a key role in helping to “breathe new life into these buildings.” Most importantly, however, Rochelle says the goal of CentreVenture is to build and attract new residential housing in Winnipeg’s revitalized downtown. Currently, Rochelle says there are about 18,000 people living there. They want that number to exceed 20,000 in the new few years and then keep growing from there. Eventually, they’d like to exceed 25,000 residents in the downtown area. “We’d like to ensure that we have adequate housing for everybody in our city and beautiful neighbourhoods for people to live in,” Rochelle concludes. “We have some projects on the horizon that will really contribute to those objectives, and I’m excited to be a part of that.”
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