According to Jade Jenkins, head of an association representing tenants of the Kelvingrove and Glen-Leven Apartments on Bayview Ave. there are only nine tenants left in the 97 apartments in the complex and three of those will be moving out soon. As reported in the Star by Marco-Chown Oved, the six holdouts are seniors who will be represented by Ms. Jenkins at meetings of the Landlord and Tenant Board in August. It has been a summer of moving at the apartments where close to 70 units were said to be occupied at the end of May. The buildings, located on Bayview Ave. from Sutherland Drive north to north of Airdrie Drive are indirectly owned by the NDP government of Manitoba through its Civil Service Superannuation Board and a satellite company, ADMINS Kelvingrove Investments Corp. The deputy minister of finance sits on the CSSB investments committee at CSSB headquarters in Winnipeg. Mr.Oved’s story indicates that there has been a lot of hardship on the tenants, both those who have left and those still hanging on. The owners wish to renovate the apartments and charge higher rents, it is said. Many will find it hard not to think of the push to evict the tenants as a kind of revenge for the epic resistence mounted beginning ijn 2010 which thwarted ADMINS Kelvingrove from demolishing the apartments and building high-density condominiums. The apartments were built in 1939 by Howard Talbot, later a mayor of Leaside.
