The Prairie Heights apartment building. (650 CKOM file photo)
A condo building in Pleasant Hill has been shut down by the Saskatoon Fire Department after multiple attempts to solve dangerous and unsanitary living conditions over many months.
Saskatoon assistant fire chief Yvonne Raymer said the department couldn’t continue to stand by and watch the building deteriorate any longer.
“Despite our best efforts to ensure the building was safe, clean and not a fire hazard, we cannot get ahead of the constant vandalism, squatting, drug trade (and) risky and unhealthy behaviours,” Raymer said in a news release.
Two weeks after inspectors closed 16 of the 44 suites inside the condo tower at 1416 20th St. W, Raymer cited a water leak in the building seeping through the drywall and filling up the elevator shaft as the reason for shuttering the building.