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Major makeover pleases people in Lord Selkirk Park
North Enders get jobs on $17-M project
Lord Selkirk Park resident Rochelle Moss is excited by changes. ( WAYNE.GLOWACKI@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)
Kerri Irvin-Ross tours a renovated suite in Lord Selkirk Park. ( WAYNE.GLOWACKI@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)
Rochelle Moss has more than one reason to be pleased with a new housing redevelopment in Lord Selkirk Park.
Not only is she going to get a brand-new suite, but she's also learning a trade and getting paid as one of dozens of North Enders who have landed work on the $17-million project.
On Wednesday, Moss braved the media cameras, telling journalists that the refurbishment of the more than 300 apartments and townhouses will give the residents a big boost.
"The new suites are absolutely gorgeous compared to the ones that are here right now. They've done a lot of work," she said. "Everybody in this community is going to be really very happy."
The 42-year-old public housing project had become run down, said Ron Neufeld, executive director of the North End Community Renewal Corp., a contractor involved in the project.
"Some of the suites were in pretty rough shape," he said. "You have a lot of tenants moving in and out. So the challenge was to renew them and make them like new again so they could be used for another 40 years."
The interior of the suites and townhouses are being redone from the ground up, with new floors, walls, kitchen appliances, bathroom fixtures, new energy saving furnaces and water-conserving toilets.
Also on Wednesday, the province announced that 400 new social housing units will be built this year to go along with 200 units last year. The Selinger government has promised to create 1,500 units in the province over the next five years. "It will make housing more affordable and accessible to Manitobans," Housing and Community Development Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross said.
The work at Lord Selkirk Park is scheduled to be completed by next spring.
Moss said she is currently taping for paint crews and will soon learn drywalling. When the project is completed, she'd like to work on other public housing renovations, she said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Moss said that the Lord Selkirk Park complex gets a bad rap. She called it a good community where people look out for each other and for each other's kids.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 8, 2010 A6
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