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Commercial $ 1,540,000
324 24th STREET W #7
Saskatoon, SK S7L 0C5
- 7,201 SqFt
- - Year Built
Located within the redeveloped Caswell Bus Barns in Saskatoon's Caswell Hill neighbourhood, Unit 7 offers over 7,000 sq. ft. of adaptable commercial space available for purchase or lease. The end-unit configuration combines storefront presence with a substantial interior footprint suited to a range of commercial, professional, institutional, training, showroom and service-oriented uses.
The original masonry character of the building has been retained alongside significant infrastructure upgrades, including a sprinklered building, rooftop HVAC, resurfaced roof, upgraded electrical service, new sidewalks and separately metered gas, power and water. Onsite parking and immediate possession add further flexibility for an owner-user or long-term tenant.
MX1 zoning accommodates a broad range of potential uses, while the scale of the space provides an opportunity to bring customer-facing, administrative, training or operational functions together under one roof.
The original masonry character of the building has been retained alongside significant infrastructure upgrades, including a sprinklered building, rooftop HVAC, resurfaced roof, upgraded electrical service, new sidewalks and separately metered gas, power and water. Onsite parking and immediate possession add further flexibility for an owner-user or long-term tenant.
MX1 zoning accommodates a broad range of potential uses, while the scale of the space provides an opportunity to bring customer-facing, administrative, training or operational functions together under one roof.
Listed by Coldwell Banker Signature
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PROPERTY DETAIL
Key Details
Property Type Commercial
Sub Type Retail
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 7, 201 sqft
Price per Sqft $213
MLS Listing ID SK049929
Style Apartment Unit Single-Level
Condo Fees $2
Annual Tax Amount $1,901
Tax Year 1901
Property Sub-Type Retail
Source Saskatchewan
Location
Province SK
Community Caswell Hill
Interior
Heating Roof Top H/Vac
Cooling Roof Top H/Vac
Others
Ownership Condominium
A BUILDING WITH A PAST
For more than a century, this corner of Caswell Hill has been tied to the way Saskatoon moves.
Municipal transit service began in Saskatoon on January 1, 1913. The system was then known as the Saskatoon Municipal Railway, and its first streetcar left the barn at Avenue C and 25th Street for the Mayfair terminal. Transit buildings occupied this part of Caswell Hill from that same period, and what began in the age of streetcars would grow and change alongside Saskatoon itself.
For generations, the barns were a working piece of the city rather than an architectural object. Vehicles came and went. They were repaired, maintained and returned to service. As streetcars gave way to trolley buses and diesel buses, the
complex expanded to accommodate new machinery, new demands and a growing city.
BUILT IN LAYERS
The building tells its history in additions, changes and traces of the work that once happened here.
The surviving Caswell Bus Barns were constructed in a series of phases between 1921 and 1975. For decades they served the Saskatoon Transit System as repair and maintenance space for streetcars and, later, buses.
That gradual evolution is part of what gives the building its character today. Long spans of steel, masonry walls, industrial windows, overhead structure and large service spaces were designed around work rather than appearance. Nothing was added simply to create atmosphere, yet decades later the atmosphere is precisely what makes the place difficult to reproduce.
New commercial buildings can imitate industrial character. The Bus Barns do not need to. The material, scale and irregularities are the record of what the building actually was.
A CITY CHANGES AROUND IT
Saskatoon’s transit system changed repeatedly during the building’s working life. Streetcars were gradually replaced by diesel and trolley buses between 1938 and 1951. The trolley system disappeared by 1974, while the diesel fleet continued to expand. Through all of it, Caswell Hill remained home to the transit operation.
That history was not always romantic. This was a large municipal operation embedded within an established residential neighbourhood. Traffic, noise and the continued expansion of the facility were part of everyday life in South Caswell for decades.
Its eventual reuse therefore carries more significance than simply saving an old building. For the neighbourhood, the question of what should follow Transit had been discussed for years. The building’s next life grew out of a much longer conversation about what this piece of Caswell Hill could become.
That history was not always romantic. This was a large municipal operation embedded within an established residential neighbourhood. Traffic, noise and the continued expansion of the facility were part of everyday life in South Caswell for decades.
Its eventual reuse therefore carries more significance than simply saving an old building. For the neighbourhood, the question of what should follow Transit had been discussed for years. The building’s next life grew out of a much longer conversation about what this piece of Caswell Hill could become.
AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY
In January 2017, the buses finally left.
Saskatoon Transit relocated from Caswell Hill to the new Civic Operations Centre, ending more than a century of transit activity on the site.
For the first time in generations, the complex became quiet.
What remained was a substantial collection of industrial buildings within an established inner-city neighbourhood. The City undertook environmental work, structural review, planning and a lengthy redevelopment process. Proposals came and went. The site waited.
Demolition would have been the easiest answer in many cities. Here, enough of the original fabric survived for a different decision to be made.
What remained was a substantial collection of industrial buildings within an established inner-city neighbourhood. The City undertook environmental work, structural review, planning and a lengthy redevelopment process. Proposals came and went. The site waited.
Demolition would have been the easiest answer in many cities. Here, enough of the original fabric survived for a different decision to be made.
KEEP THE BUILDING. CHANGE THE USE.
The answer was not to erase the building, but to adapt it.
The former Transit maintenance complex is being reworked as part of a new mixed-use development, allowing commercial, cultural, community and eventually residential uses to occupy a place created for an entirely different purpose.
That is the appeal of adaptive reuse when it is done well. A building is not frozen at one moment in its history, nor is its history erased. New mechanical systems, storefronts and contemporary interiors can coexist with old masonry, steel structure, service doors and the evidence of previous lives.
The Bus Barns can change because they have always changed.
That is the appeal of adaptive reuse when it is done well. A building is not frozen at one moment in its history, nor is its history erased. New mechanical systems, storefronts and contemporary interiors can coexist with old masonry, steel structure, service doors and the evidence of previous lives.
The Bus Barns can change because they have always changed.
WHY IT STILL MATTERS
There is a tendency to treat older industrial buildings as valuable simply because they are old. The Bus Barns are more interesting than that.
Their relevance today comes from something increasingly difficult to create in new development: space with memory, flexibility and a genuine relationship to its neighbourhood.
Large spans allow uses to change. Industrial proportions allow businesses and organizations to operate differently from the way they might in a conventional office or retail bay. Existing structure gives the spaces an identity before a tenant has added a single piece of furniture.
Keeping a building like this acknowledges that a growing city does not have to continually erase itself in order to move forward. The strongest cities are often the ones that allow different periods to remain visible at the same time.
Large spans allow uses to change. Industrial proportions allow businesses and organizations to operate differently from the way they might in a conventional office or retail bay. Existing structure gives the spaces an identity before a tenant has added a single piece of furniture.
Keeping a building like this acknowledges that a growing city does not have to continually erase itself in order to move forward. The strongest cities are often the ones that allow different periods to remain visible at the same time.
A NEW COMMUNITY IS TAKING SHAPE
The Bus Barns are no longer simply a former Transit facility. They are gradually becoming a place people will come to work, make, rehearse, perform, meet and spend time.
The emerging mix includes Jillian Ross Print, Saskatoon Community Theatre Centre, Artist’s Studios & Gallery, Deen Cafe, Wallace Krueger Architects, Garfield Sound Labs and Sandra Ledingham Studio.
Architecture beside printmaking. Music beside theatre. Studios beside food and gathering spaces. It is not a conventional commercial complex organized around a single category of tenant. The interest comes from the overlap.
What is emerging is a collection of independent practices, creative businesses, community uses and public-facing spaces occupying a building originally designed for something entirely different.
THE NEXT CHAPTER IS ALREADY TAKING SHAPE
A successful adaptive reuse project eventually reaches a point where the old building stops being the entire story.
People begin to occupy it. Doors open. Businesses settle in. Studios take shape. Spaces once built around municipal machinery acquire completely different rhythms.
That is where the Caswell Bus Barns are now.
The history remains visible, but the building is beginning to belong to a new generation of people who will decide what it becomes next.
THERE IS STILL ROOM TO BE PART OF IT
Unit 7 offers the opportunity to become part of what comes next.
More than 7,000 square feet of adaptable commercial space remain available within the redevelopment, with the scale to accommodate considerably more than a conventional office or storefront.
The opportunity is not simply to occupy an interesting old building. It is to decide what another piece of that building becomes.
A headquarters. A studio. A learning environment. A showroom. A wellness or performance space. A place that combines several of those things. The right use may be one nobody has considered yet.
For more than a century, the Bus Barns have been altered in response to what Saskatoon needed from them. Unit 7 leaves room for that process to continue.
UNIT 7 / CASWELL BUS BARNS
324 24th Street West, Saskatoon
Over 7,000 sq. ft. of adaptable commercial space within the Caswell Bus Barns redevelopment.
For Sale: $1,540,000
For Lease: $20/sq. ft. net
Possession: Immediate
Zoning: MX1
CONTACT
James Rayner
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