From The Corner Of My Eye.

Travelling regularly down 8th Street via the 2 Meadowgreen bus the steeple and red door of this church on 9th Street frequently catch my eye, so one day I decided to go take a look.





Apparently this building previously housed the Courts of Praise Foursquare Gospel Church, who have moved elsewhere.

Red Doors.

While walking down 9th Street last Fall I came across this building.



Although it's labelled as the Murano not much info turns up when you do a websearch.  This isn't its original appearance, but not being a resident of the area I have no idea what the building originally looked like.







At the time of this post there was a Kijiji listing for one of the tenants looking to sublet their unit for the Summer, but since a link like that has a limited shelf life I decided not to post it.

Failure.

The rage for condo-ising existing apartment buildings in Saskatoon in recent years has led to some odd choices.



This building on 9th Street and Clarence Avenue sat empty for years due to the ground around it being contaminated by a nearby gas station. So it was a surprise when work began to convert it into a condo in 2008. Unfortunately an explosion April 28 of this year brought that to a halt. There were already two units occupied at the time, but no one was hurt. It is suspected this was caused by arson. Here's the current appearence of the front of the building.



These poor plants sit dead in their pots, and the door is boarded up.



Damage is obvious on the Clarence Avenue side of the building.



A closer look shows the balcony railing of one apartment bent by the explosion.



As you can see from this notice from a property inspector the days of this building appear to be numbered. There is no sign any attempt is being made to repair the damage.

If anyone has more details about the history of this building and its problems please feel free to leave them in the comments section to this post.