Demolition has started of a McDermot Avenue warehouse that was in poor condition.
The city had given the owners of the five-storey building at 579 McDermot Ave. until Monday to tear it down, after an engineering assessment deemed it unsafe. City spokesperson David Driedger confirmed demolition began Thursday.
“The City of Winnipeg initiated an emergency demolition of the building yesterday, and work is ongoing,” Driedger said in an email Friday.
We don’t have any further information to share regarding timelines at this time.”
The demolition deadline had been extended to Wednesday upon request from the property owner, sparking ire from residents living nearby, who had been forced to evacuate until it was deemed safe to return.
The landlord of a nearby building that had been forced to evacuate suggested to the Free Press earlier this week that the warehouse’s foundation may have been affected after a neighbouring home was demolished in 2022, leaving a hole that was not backfilled for months afterward.
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