The more time that passes, the more it seems like Thunderbird House was just a knee jerk play to level the most embarrassing part of skid row downtown right before the 1999 Pan Am Games. Phase I got built and it seems as though everyone stopped caring about it shortly thereafter.
The funny thing is it's not like any of the Pan Am visitors would have really or noticed or cared about what was there before.
Thunderbird House was just the first part of what was to have been a much larger Douglas Cardinal-designed complex, although that has about as much chance of happening now as me getting signed to a NHL team and scoring 12 goals to close out the season.
source: winnipegarchitecture.ca