b'Design rendering of a planned first-floor residential entry lounge. Credit: Southern Chiefs Organization.A NEW LIFE may move from the sixth floor to the second, near the entrance to the Southern Chiefs Organization embarks onPortage Place Skywalk;An art gallery;redevelopment for former Hudsons Bay buildingOffice space for IndigenousBy Kelly Parker entrepreneurs;A health centre; and When it opened in 1926, it was theby Knowledge Keeper Margaret Swan,A memorial for residential schoollargest reinforced concrete building inmeaning it is visiblein a $130-millionvictims and survivors.Canada. Since then, the Hudsons Bayredevelopment project planned by theWhile the aging department store building has been one of the jewelsSCO to convert the site into a space forfinally fell victim to urban sprawl and a of Winnipegs downtown, and youreeconomic and social reconciliation.changing retail landscape in November unlikely to find many WinnipeggersA partial list of planned features for the2020, discussions about how to save of a certain age who dont have fondproject includes: some iteration of the structure had memories of visits to the departmentbeen going on behind the scenes for store. After closing the historic300 affordable housing units forlocation, Hudsons Bay CompanyElders and university student (HBC) recently transferred ownershipmembers of southern First Nations;of the building to the Southern ChiefsA Hudsons Bay Company museum;Organization (SCO). In the years ahead, the building will be reborn as Two restaurants, including the Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohnnamedreopened Paddlewheelwhich SCO Grand Chief Jerry Daniels pictured in front of the former HBC Design rendering of a planned first-floor residentialbuilding in downtown Winnipeg.lobby. Credit: Southern Chiefs Organization. Credit: Southern Chiefs Organization.46 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'