Manwin Hotel for sale for $2.8M shortly after city order enforces tenants to vacate

Tessa Adamski · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 4:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The Manwin Hotel successful Winnipeg's interior metropolis has a terms tag of astir $2.8 cardinal with a fewer prospective buyers already eyeing it up.

Brad Gross, the realtor for the property which sits 1 artifact northbound of downtown connected Main Street, said the proprietor made the determination to merchantability aft losing an entreaty against the metropolis connected an bid to adjacent the premises and vacate each remaining tenants. 

City council's spot and improvement committee voted to contradict the entreaty connected Feb. 10 aft initially ordering it to beryllium closed connected Jan. 3 due to the fact that of electrical, structural, fire-safety and different livability issues, according to documents posted arsenic portion of the appeal.

The edifice was subjected to galore visits from metropolis inspectors, had a erstwhile metropolis closure bid successful 2021 and a nationalist protestation against the surviving conditions wrong its 35 suites — lone 24 of which are permitted by the metropolis — according to metropolis spot officials. 

Manwin Hotel proprietor Akim Kambamba is "pretty upset due to the fact that the metropolis conscionable benignant of closed him down and enactment a clump of radical retired connected the streets erstwhile it was –40 C," Gross told CBC connected Sunday. 

City officials antecedently said they would effort to find homes for the 8 remaining residents.

The Manwin has been the country of stabbings, assaults and deaths respective times implicit the years.

While the extracurricular of the gathering is boarded up and marked with graffiti, Gross said the wrong is "not successful atrocious signifier astatine all."

"It's afloat of a batch of clutter … but I mean, remember, they conscionable closed the doors and kicked everybody out. You cognize successful those situations, you can't adjacent drawback anything, you gotta conscionable go," helium said. 

The building, astir 10,000 sq feet successful size, volition person to acquisition aggregate renovations to bring it up to code, including the replacement of a staircase, occurrence flight and gutting the bedrooms, which could outgo up to $400,000 alone, Gross said. 

He said the hotel, built successful 1882, is inactive operational and has heat, h2o and electricity. 

Approximately $100,000 has already been spent connected the architectural plans to reconstruct it. 

Gross said he's successful interaction with a fewer imaginable buyers and hopes the gathering volition inactive beryllium utilized to supply low-income lodging enactment for radical successful need. 

The enforcement manager of an organization, which helps radical struggling with addiction and homelessness adjacent the Manwin Hotel, said helium hopes the gathering volition beryllium utilized to connection intelligence wellness supports. 

"I deliberation that would beryllium an absorbing work that could beryllium added downtown," Peter McMullen said, who works astatine Lighthouse Mission. 

He said a batch of folks successful the country request entree to lodging and food, which is disposable astatine shelters, but galore radical successful the assemblage person intelligence wellness challenges and request those issues addressed too. 

"I'm excited astatine the imaginable that it tin beryllium updated and beryllium utilized to service our assemblage better," helium said.