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Rubin Block in South Osborne sitting vacant since 2014
Last Modified: 9:52 AM CST Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 | Updates
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
The Rubin Block at 270 Morley Ave. has been vacant and growing derelict since 2014, and a new petition has been circulating urging the owners to act and sell it to a buyer who will actually maintain it.
Nobody’s lived at the Rubin Block for more than six years.
Nobody’s lived at the Rubin Block for more than six years.
Its 21 suites sit empty, with most boarded up. The main-floor windows are obscured by plywood, hardly windows at all, more like closed doors. The 106-year-old building at the corner of Osborne Street and Morley Avenue is on a national list of endangered places, and without intervention, it will be in danger of disappearing at a time when housing needs to be maintained and protected, a growing chorus of neighbourhood voices says.