Neglected city centre billboard gets face-lift

A graffiti-covered, vacant billboard at Portage Avenue and Sherbrook Street has finally gotten a makeover.

Global News first told you last fall that Sussex Realty wanted to loan the derelict space on top of the Casa Loma building to the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

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But they needed the city’s permission to re-purpose it, and in January, they were denied. The public service said the sign was too large and didn’t fit with the heritage building it sits on.

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Sussex Realty appealed, and the decision was overturned by the appeal committee in February

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It’s the first of several billboard exhibits the WAG is planning during the next two years.