2023-05-05 21:49:41
The owner of the company, Rusty Ouellet, confirmed to us by email that this offer did not respect the two proposals that his company had submitted last week to formalize a sale.
He claims that the potential buyers had no intention of moving the house or buying the neighboring buildings, as required by the owner.
The offer would have been submitted by three people, including one of the tenants of 304, avenue de la Cathédrale.
The “brown house”, which is considered to have exceptional heritage value by the Société rimouskoise du patrimoine, will probably be demolished to make way for a two-unit building.
The City of Rimouski authorized this demolition despite the fierce opposition of many citizens and built heritage specialists.
Renovating was never in the plans
According to the owners of the building for almost 25 years, the house is in too bad condition to be saved.
On our airwaves last week, Rusty Ouellet even admitted that the demolition of the “brown house” had been in the cards of Immeubles Vianney Ouellet since its purchase in 1999.
He implied that there was never any question of restoring the house.
I say it very candidly, when you buy a property to destroy it, it is certain that you did not go to completely renovate it
he said then.
According to Immeubles Vianney Ouellet, simply lifting the building could threaten its already weakened structure.
Opponents of the demolition believe that the owner left the house to deteriorate for years.
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