Historic Higgins building sold, expected to reopen as hotel
The former King’s Hotel in South Point Douglas has been sold amid a slow decline in the number of older inner-city hotels with beverage rooms and beer vendors.
Brad Gross, who was the listing agent for 114 Higgins Ave., located just east of Waterfront Drive, said the new owner took possession March 1.
Gross said the building, purchased for just under $900,000, will be renovated and could reopen as a hotel.
“I think that’s the plan,” Gross said.
The new owner could not be reached for comment. There was no sign of activity at the 123-year-old building when a Free Press reporter stopped by Thursday afternoon. People who work in the area said they noticed contractors earlier in the week.
King’s Hotel, which has space for a restaurant, beer vendor and bar, closed more than a year ago. The three-storey brick building was constructed in 1903 and initially opened as the Richelieu Hotel.
It was one of many small downtown hotels built between the late 1890s and the First World War to provide rooms to thousands of visitors to the city, says a 2007 assessment conducted for the City of Winnipeg’s historical buildings committee.
The site became known as the King’s Hotel by 1940 under the ownership of an arm of Drewry’s Brewery.
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