MONTREAL – Flex-Art Gymnastics can no longer train in the Snowdon Building, leaving 500 gymnastics students looking for a new home.
The Cote-des-Neiges/NDG borough has locked the Flex-Art gymnastics club out of its training facilities in the Snowdon Theatre Building on Decarie Blvd.
Members now have to practice and train at three different temporary locations but with reduced hours.
The gymnasts also have to set up and take down their own equipment each time.
The borough locked the doors to the Snowdon Building, claiming it was too unsafe to keep it open.
But officials have failed to find a new permanent home for the gymnastics club.
This has parents outraged.
“Girls are leaving one by one, and I don’t want them to leave because those are the girls my daughter looks up to,” said mother Khadijah Khan.
Others said that the city could easily repair the building and allow the club to reintegrate.
But they doubt that this will happen because they think someone has made an offer to buy the building.
“They probably have somebody interested in purchasing the building and it’s much easier for them to sell it empty,” Petra Kocur said.
A city spokesperson told Global News Tuesday afternoon that it is continuing to work with Flex-Art to find a new home for the gymnastics club but that the Côté-des-Neiges/NDG borough had no choice but to close the Snowdon building because city engineers have deemed it unsafe for public use.
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