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Originally Posted by Andy6
The Free Press has a daily link to a past front page ... today’s is a 1975 edition in which one story is about a plan to build a new civic administration building south of city hall. The plan was to demolish the Leland Hotel, the Royal Tower (Paterson Global Foods) and Ashdown’s (Crocus).
https://archives.winnipegfreepress.c...ss/1975-06-26/
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That's interesting, and it's somewhat surprising that a plan like that never came together. I would imagine that by 1975 there was a lot of pressure on the City to find more office space given that the 1964 Administration Building was built for a much smaller, pre-Unicity municipal government.
But what did the City end up doing? I know it ended up putting departments in some heritage buildings (Confed, Bank of Hamilton) and new projects (the one just north of City Hall, Fort Garry Place, possibly the Mandarin Building?), but I don't think that happened until the 1980s. Where did they house all of their bureaucrats from the 1970s until the mid-80s?