Rent reduced for Riders, early budget items approved by Regina Council
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Council retroactively slashed $1.33 million in rent owed by the Roughriders.
Regina’s most infamous landmark will soon get the one thing that has eluded it for the last few years: Lots of dirt to fill it up.
Speaking on 980 CJME’s Gormley on Tuesday, Mayor Michael Fougere said that companies interested in filling the downtown eyesore that is the Capital Pointe hole have submitted their tenders for the work.
City administrators are almost finished evaluating the submissions and selecting a winning bidder.
“We should be announcing who will be doing that work in a matter of days,” Fougere said.
Fougere didn’t give details on the number of submissions made for the project or which companies threw in their hats. But he said once the announcement happens, the winning bidder will start work on filling the hole this summer, and the work will continue into the fall.
“It’s our largest pothole in the city,” he joked.
The hole is at the northeast corner of Albert Street and Victoria Avenue, the site of the now-demolished Plains Hotel. The hotel was demolished in December 2011.
The company behind Capital Pointe, Westgate Properties, originally planned to build a new hotel and condominium complex at the site.
The site of the hole is now for sale for $8.5 million.