Melissa Martin
09/7/2018 7:00 PM
There’s a pleasant buzz at the coffee shop just after noon when Brent Bellamy settles down at a back corner table.
If he was in advocate mode, he might share some of his usual fun facts. He might point out that just two blocks away, at Portage and Main, more than 15,000 people are working, living and breathing life into the downtown. But this is a more casual conversation.
And so, the chat begins and it quickly becomes clear the creative director at the architectural firm Number TEN Architectural Group, board chair of Centre Venture and periodic Free Press columnist, has become busier than ever.
“Portage and Main has been taking over my life,” he says, with a what-can-you-do shrug.
Winnipeg architect Brent Bellamy isn't a candidate in the civic election, but he's leading the charge on the ballot question; he believes removing the concrete barriers at Portage and Main will be transformative for the city
Melissa Martin
09/7/2018 7:00 PM
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