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River Landing Village delayed again: Star Phoenix

June 20, 2009

According to a story in today’s Star Phoenix, Lake Placid Developments is seeking a one-year extension on the current deadline to complete the excavation of the building site for its proposed $200 million River Landing development.
In a letter to the city, the developer requested an extension to June 30, 2010. City manager, Murray Totland will [...]

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Saskatoon’s River Landing Village now for sale, construction to begin soon

May 5, 2009

I received this email today stating that the title issues we previously heard about that were holding Lake Placid back on the River Landing Village project have been resolved and that construction will begin “as soon as changes are complete.”

Dear Norm,
“The legislation needed to move forward with two of the biggest private developments in the [...]

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Saskatoon’s condo conversion policy to change

April 15, 2008

Monday night’s meeting of Saskatoon city council’s executive committee produced nearly five hours of “discussion and heated debate,” on proposed changes to the city’s condo conversion policy according to a report in this morning’s Star Phoenix. The majority of the councilors in attendance ultimately voted to put the brakes on the trend toward rapid and [...]

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How rent controls in Saskatchewan can do more harm than good

April 4, 2008

There’s a bit of a debate occurring on another post about whether or not Saskatchewan needs to implement rent control legislation.

Few would disagree that this market is extremely tough for renters and it would be difficult to make a case that Saskatoon renters don’t need some help right now. Is rent control the right [...]

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Saskatoon Milroy Apartments tenants offered first crack at converted units

March 27, 2008

Tenants of the Saskatoon Milroy Apartments received offers to purchase their units from the developer yesterday. Two of them kindly dropped me a note and I thought you might be interested in the details.

A tenant living on the 12th floor writes, “We got a package in the mail last night with the price and [...]

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Saskatoon Milroy Apartment tenants lose court challenge to halt condo Conversion

March 22, 2008

Tenants of Saskatoon’s Milroy Apartments learned Thursday of their lost court challenge aimed at stopping the condo conversion project at their building, which was approved by Saskatoon city council on January 14, 2008.

“The decision was that the court is not interfering with city council’s decision. The application to set aside the decision approving [...]

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Saskatoon Milroy tenants have their day in court

March 12, 2008

Tenants of Saskatoon’s Milroy Apartments asked Justice Mona Dovell to overturn the City of Saskatoon’s decision to approve an application to convert the apartments to condos on Tuesday.
Andrew Mason, the lawyer representing the group of tenants who are opposing the decision argued that city council either misinterpreted the provincial legislation that governs condominium conversions, or [...]

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Saskatoon condo conversion debate about to get hotter

March 5, 2008

You’ve got to know that Saskatoon community services manager, Paul Gauthier is having some long days at work. He’s one of the civic officials responsible for processing condominium conversion applications. That can’t be a real funfest right now. In fact, approving condo conversion applications has become so controversial that Gauthier has simply had enough, and [...]

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A different twist in the Saskatoon condo conversion saga

March 1, 2008

In spite of the fact that approval has been obtained and the Kelsey Apartments have been separately titled, the building’s owner, Victory Majors Investment Co. has decided to abandon its plans to sell the units off. Kay Nasser, founder of the company has announced that they will hold onto all 77 units and rent them [...]

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Michael Lobsinger, River Landing developer to speak in Saskatoon

February 28, 2008

When the City asked for developers to consider an exciting new “Urban Village” concept at River Landing, the call was answered by Michael Lobsinger, a former Saskatoon resident and now a successful real estate developer.

On Wednesday, March 12, Mr. Michael E. Lobsinger, President CEO, Lake Placid Group, will speak to the Saskatoon business community [...]

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Saskatoon has one of the most generous condo conversion policies

February 27, 2008

It seems that Saskatoon has one of the most generous condo conversion policies, if you’re a landlord that is.

Saskatoon city administrators are working hard to bring about a policy change in the city of Saskatoon. They’ve recommended a number of changes that they say would protect tenants from being displaced at times when vacancy [...]

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