Heavy equipment has been moved to a fenced off area behind the long derelict former Intelligencer building but it isn’t there to demolish the unsightly building as many in the
community want.
Quinte News has learned that a demolition order was issued to the building’s GTA-based owner Abdul Mian of Prime Canadian Properties during city council’s last term.
The order is under appeal by the owner and a date for a hearing on the appeal has not yet been set.
City officials say digging and other equipment is on the site for a Phase 1 Environmental Assessment ahead of a potential redevelopment of the property.
The property owner has been issued several cleanup orders since 2011 when The Intelligencer vacated the building but little has been done.
The owner had floated the idea of creating condominiums and later in 2020 the gutted structure was put up for sale for almost $2 million by local realtor Jamie Troke of Ekort Realty.
Troke says the building was not sold. According to The Intelligencer, Prime Canadian Properties bought the building in 2008 for $425,000.
The building owner tells Quinte News there are plans for a joint venture with a big builder to construct approximately 25 condo units but would not comment further.
(Photo: Quinte News)
(Photo: Quinte News)
