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The water tower at the Union Stockyards will be preserved and relocated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were always going to try to relocate it somewhere else in the development because right where it is is not really fundamentally suitable,\u201d Scarletta said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot that we want to sell. It\u2019s not a featured area.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Union Stock Yards, which was on a 232-acre site on Marion Street, officially opened in 1913. At its peak, there were about 3,000 workers on the site, which could house as many as 450 rail cars from CP Rail, CN Rail, and Grand Trunk Pacific. It also had room for 3,200 cattle and 13,000 sheep. It closed in 1988.<\/p>\n
Cindy Tugwell, Heritage Winnipeg executive director, said it\u2019s refreshing to see a developer save a heritage item.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great they want to go above and beyond to pay homage to the water tower and save it,\u201d Tugwell said. \u201cIt really adds to the site\u2019s industrial heritage. It respects the past while looking to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Boniface Coun. Matt Allard agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pleased to see the developer take the tower seriously \u2014 even going as far as taking it apart to put in the Water Tower District,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good symbol for the area and it is iconic. It\u2019s a signature piece.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shindico, along with Alberta-based Olexa Developments, plans to turn 165 acres of the former stockyard site into about 2,800 multiple housing units, as well as restaurants, retail, commercial space and parks.<\/p>\n
The water tower removal was mentioned in a report to the Riel community committee meeting this week.<\/p>\n
The developer received final approval for a plan to build a five-storey building with 91 residential units and 4,405 square feet of commercial space on what would be Ibrahima Diallo Avenue on the site. It will also have 68 underground parking spots and 37 parking stalls outside the building.<\/p>\n
Scarletta said originally the tower was going to be put into the centre of a roundabout, but that was scrapped when the city decided it wanted a regular intersection instead.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\tSign up for Sunday Passages<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \u201cIt will come down and be restored and then we\u2019re going to figure out how to put it back up again.\u201d<\/p>\n But the project isn\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n \u201cJust to take it down will be about $200,000,\u201d Scarletta said. \u201cIt is a hazard. If we left it there then we would have to put fencing around so nobody went near it.<\/p>\n \u201cWho knows if one day a big storm, could be 10 or 15 years from now, blows it over and it lands on somebody. So it will be relocated and made structurally sound.\u201d<\/p>\n kevin.rollason@freepress.mb.ca<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Kevin Rollason Kevin Rollason is a general assignment reporter at the Free Press. He graduated from Western University with a Masters of Journalism in 1985 and worked at the Winnipeg Sun until\u00a01988, when he joined the Free Press. He has served as the Free Press\u2019s city hall and law courts reporter and has won several awards, including a National Newspaper Award. Read more about Kevin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Kevin produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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