$30M development eyed for lot where Sutherland Hotel once stood

The Sutherland Hotel is gone but the ambitious plans that were in place to renovate the 142-year-old structure prior to January’s destructive fire are now rising from the ashes and rubble in Winnipeg’s North End.

“This is an opportunity to let our imagination go free a little bit, and let itself organize from the bottom up, let the community speak, let government, business, other groups speak, let the Indigenous voice be heard, and see what it will develop into,” said Keith Wiebe Gordon, whose nonprofit group hoped to convert the boarded-up building into affordable housing.

The B.C.-based Anhart Community Housing Society signed an agreement to buy it for $475,000 just four days before it went up in flames.

“We were shocked and…