“We get what we get, which I know I’m going to walk away with nothing.” 15 is the deadline to put it up for sale,” he said. Knihnitski said selling the tower is the best course of action. 15, the building will be put up for sale. Two condo owners told CTV News if condo fees and special levies aren’t collected by Oct. “For no fault of ours we got kicked out and now they expect us to clean this up and I told them I’m not coming on Saturday, I didn’t do nothing, I didn’t defecate or urinate in the hallways, we’re the victims here we didn’t cause this,” Knihitski said. Knihnitski said he’s not paying those levies.īut before anything, Barry has called on condo owners to gear up head to toe in personal protective equipment to clean up the garbage and debris collecting at the condo, which is largely the result of the homeless camp set up in the parking area. "There are also condo owners who haven’t been paying their condo fees so we don’t have that money that’s available and that results in the levy that’s being proposed being higher," Barry said. That levy jumps to $8,486.32 for one-bedroom suite owners who are in arrears.īarry told CTV News among the issues needing attention in the tower is a cockroach infestation, repairs to the fire suppression system, fixing the elevator and cleaning up biohazard and human waste. According to a presentation made to the condo owners Barry is proposing a special levy of $4,966.80 for one-bedroom suite condo owners who are not in arrears. 15 proposing special levies to be paid for by condo owners to help pay for the outstanding bills and remediations expenses to get the condo tower back open.
Knihnitski said Barry called a meeting with condo owners on Sept. The department also invoiced the condo $58,000 for “necessary, life-safety repairs completed by various contractors hired by the city of Saskatoon.” “They got different quotes, it needs to be exterminated, winterized so the pipes don’t freeze, but the cost is all coming back to us.”īefore the highrise was shut down, the fire department closed 16 suites and secured another 13 units because of unauthorized access. “What they want us to do is fork up more money to get this building in shape,” Knihnitski said. Nearly five months after the condo's closure, Knihnitski said the legal administration Clayton Barry, who was appointed by a Saskatoon’s Court of Queen’s Bench judge to start collecting condo fees and bring order to the affairs of the 44-unit condo tower,held a meeting with the remaining condo owners with a plan to re-open the tower. Norbert Knihnitski owns a unit in the building.
On Wednesday the remains of a homeless with multiple tents, blankets and sleeping quarters could be seen in the semi-covered parking lot of the condo.Īccording to Saskatoon Fire Department, police, social services, as well as Salvation Army and Saweyhitotan Outreach workers helped relocate the people living there on Tuesday. On May 6, fences and plywood boards went up to secure the building at 1416 20th St. Pigeons, empty cans, bottles and discarded fast-food bags are some of the only signs of life left at the defunct grounds of a 20th Street West condo tower.
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