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There's nothing like a break from a city to notice changes that have taken place. I was away from Winnipeg over the holidays and at the weekend was back out running along Wellington Crescent in the surprisingly mild weather.
It wasn't always this way. When I was moving out of my apartment in The Gates, I looked briefly at buying a house on Wellington Crescent. It wasn't one of the most grand but neither was it one of the most expensive. If I remember correctly its asking price was a little under $250,000. A few years later, friends sold their house on Wellington Crescent for little more than they'd paid for it more than 10 years earlier. It's hard to imagine those events now. Wellington Crescent has renewed itself as a symbol of a prosperous city.Perhaps too much of Winnipeg's economic growth has come from government spending. Perhaps government in the province is still too large and business is too dependant on it. But the construction on Wellington Crescent is saying loud and clear that for all that, Winnipeg is a place where you can make money, stand a good chance of keeping it, a chance to make more, and there's enough going on to enjoy the money you've made. There have been several times in the history of the city when all those things have been true. One of them is now.See the full content of this document
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Crescent Run Jogs Memories
There's nothing like a break from a city to notice changes that have taken place. I was away from Winnipeg over the holidays and at the weekend was back out running along Wellington Crescent in the surprisingly mild wea...
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