This fifteen-storey, steel-reinforced concrete building on Kennedy Street in Winnipeg was designed by architect Helmut J. Peters of the firm Moody Moore Duncan Rattray Peters Searle and Christie to provide offices for more than 150 physicians and dentists, laboratory and x-ray facilities, two pharmacies and two optical dispensaries, and a bank and restaurant on its lowest two floors. It replaced an earlier structure (dating from 1922) that stood to the immediate north, and is now a parking lot. The building was constructed between March 1972 and June 1974 by Bird Construction at a cost of about $5 million.
Sold in 2017, two years later renovations began to convert the building into retail space on the ground level, offices on the second floor, and 96 residential suites on upper levels.
The former Medical Arts Building (April 2021)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89021, W97.14729
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Moody and Moore / MMP Architects
Manitoba Business: Bird Woodall and Simpson Construction / Bird Construction Company
“A new ‘Medical Arts’,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 November 1971, pages 1, 4.
“Medical building starts,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 February 1972, page 67.
“June opening date set for Medical Arts Building,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 February 1974, page 3.
233 Kennedy St, Winnipeg, Hazelview Investments.
“Downtown Winnipeg medical office tower transforming into homes” by Geoff Kirbyson, Western Investor, 27 September 2019.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and George Penner.
Page revised: 15 February 2025
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