WINNIPEG – Winnipeg bureaucrats have recommended the city expropriate the land lying under a fire-paramedic station at 1780 Taylor Ave.
Negotiations between the city and the landowner have not resulted in a deal to purchase the property, which an appraiser hired by the city valued at $1,054,000.
The landowner valued the property at $1,232,200 plus $844,220 to cover “an alleged loss in property value adjacent to the WFPS facility,” the city said Friday in a news release.
The fire-paramedic station was built by Shindico on land that belongs to the company in a controversial deal that would have seen Shindico trade that land for three other properties. In the end, city council didn’t approve the deal.
Those three properties – surplus land at 409 Mulvey Ave. E., 200 Berry St. and 1710 Grosvenor Ave. that are the sites of old fire halls – will be sold to fund the purchase of the Taylor Avenue land.
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