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Posted: Apr 12, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 12 Inside the main entrance stairwell at Prairie Heights.(CBC) On a warm spring morning, the problems with the Prairie Heights condo tower assault the senses. The tangy stench of urine wafts up from the open parking area beneath the tower at 1416 20th Street W. in Saskatoon. The incessant cooing of pigeons roosting on balconies almost drowns out the traffic passing by. The ground is littered in various places with syringes, food wrappers, bird feces, discarded shoes, shirts and pieces of furniture. Assistant fire chief Yvonne Raymer to...

  SASKATOON -- Geoff Wilkie bought a condo at Prairie Heights in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood about 12 years ago.  What he thought would be a great investment turned into a constant source of stress. “It’s like living in a war zone,” Wilkie told CTV News.  “You go in the building and there’s needles everywhere, there’s graffiti on the wall, there’s bikes in the hallway, there’s garbage in the hallways, there’s broken doors. People use the stairwells for their toilet, people throwing up. It’s just disgusting.” Wilkie said he’s even witnessed people...