Shanghai Restaurant demo plan OK’ed by council
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 15/12/2010 (5385 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
City council has approved a plan to allow the Chinatown Development Corporation to demolish the 128-year-old Shanghai Restaurant Building to make way for an Asian seniors’ housing complex.
Council voted 12-4 to allow the demolition of the Shanghai building, which occupies a block of King Street in Chinatown, pending the completion of a development plan to replace the two-storey 1882 structure.
Heritage advocates oppose the plan. Heritage Winnipeg director Cindy Tugwell addressed council to insist nobody has proved the building – which served as temporary council chambers in the 1880s – is not economically viable.
Couns. Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge) and Harvey Smith (Daniel McIntyre) authored a motion to delay a demolition decision until the city undertakes a structural report about the building.
That effort was defeated 10-6.
No demolition can take place until the Chinatown Development Corporation files a complete plan and takes out building permits. The city will not allow a new surface lot to be created along King Street.
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