Bay building redevelopment could get $3.4M boost from City of Winnipeg

Cameron MacLean · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 02, 2025 11:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

The redevelopment of the erstwhile Hudson's Bay Company gathering in downtown Winnipeg could get a $3.4-million backing boost from the city.

A caller report, to beryllium considered by council's enforcement argumentation committee adjacent week, calls for backing to marque improvements supra and beneath the sidewalks surrounding the building. 

The Southern Chiefs Organization is successful the mediate of a $310-million redevelopment of aged Hudson's Bay Company building.

It's turning the astir century-old gathering into a mixed-use improvement called Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn.

The metropolis has already contributed $20.3 million toward the project, including $9.7 cardinal in tax-increment financing and a $10-million assistance from the national lodging accelerator fund.

Now, metropolis unit urge giving different $3.4 million in the 2026 fund for streetscaping, including perchance closing a northbound lane of postulation on Memorial Boulevard.

Matt Dryburgh, elder manager of economical improvement and policy, wrote successful the study the closure would let for trees to beryllium planted.

"However, further reappraisal of the road, onshore drainage and transit infrastructure considerations are needed to corroborate feasibility," Dryburgh wrote.

The wealth would besides wage for repairs to areaways — vacant basement spaces that widen retired beneath sidewalks.

If approved, it would bring the city's full backing to $23.7 million. The backing needs support from council.

The task was primitively slated to outgo $130 million in 2022, erstwhile the Hudson's Bay Company announced the transportation of the six-storey, 655,000-square-foot gathering astatine the country of Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard to the SCO, which represents 34 Anishinaabe and Dakota nations successful confederate Manitoba.