SASKATCHEWAN FIRE SALE
$3.2M and counting: Sales of SLGA buildings continue

Story by Regina Leader-Post • Monday, May 15, 2023

The now-closed SLGA Dewdney Liquor Store© Provided by Leader Post

The sale of 10 former SLGA buildings has netted the province more than $3.2 million — and there are currently three more properties up for grabs.

The Government of Saskatchewan announced Monday another building that housed an SLGA Retail Inc. liquor store in Fort Qu’Appelle was sold for $370,000.

Offers were previously accepted on properties in Watrous, Biggar, Esterhazy, La Ronge, Buffalo Narrows, Creighton, Carlyle, Humboldt and Moosomin — though six of those deals are still listed as pending on SLGA’s website.

The last of SLGA’s 34 stores, 19 of which it owned, closed on March 11.

Five of the buildings will be repurposed for other government organizations, the province said Monday.

Three available properties are listed for sale in Saskatoon, Nipawin and Assiniboia.

The government auctioned off the province’s remaining 35 public liquor permits in February as part of a plan to exit the business by the end of March. By the end of the month, the government said it raked in roughly $45 million for the permits.