TIMMINS - The company looking to transform a former fire hall into apartments has a little more time to come up with a plan.
After being on the market for years, Bada Holdings bought the former Whitney Fire Station at 114 Dixon St. for $167,000 in April 2024. Buying the municipal property was contingent on the company applying for a zoning change withing three months. That has not happened.
The item was back at Tuesday's Timmins council meeting. At Bada Holdings request, the owner now has until May 31, 2025, to submit a zoning change to the city. Once that's approved, the company has three months to finalize the land transfer.
When the sale was approved last year, the company's pitch was to convert the building into six to eight residential units. Because it's currently zoned institutional, apartments aren't permitted.
The building has been vacant for years.
While the volunteer station in Porcupine operated out of the fire hall for decades, the department relocated to the Integrated Emergency Services Complex (IESC) at Northern College in 2018.
In 2019, the city merged the two properties the fire hall was on into one and declared it surplus land.
Bada Holdings also bought the two vacant lots on Michener Boulevard in Melview Park in 2024. Those sales do not have the same contingencies as the fire hall deal.