Photo: Colin Dacre

A downtown Penticton property infamous for vagrancy issues is in new hands.

The former home of the Victory Church at 352 Winnipeg Street has sold to a Vancouver buyer for $1.425M, according to listing agent Phillip Fox.

He said architects are currently working on a new concept for the building that will include a new facade, additional windows and the enclosing of the parkade on the ground level.

“Basically revitalizing that building and it will likely get divided up into three or four lease spaces to be leased out to commercial tenants,” Fox said.

Development permits still need to be submitted to the city before any work can proceed on the 12,000-square-foot structure. The sale closed at the end of November. 

Modular fences now surround the parkade, which has long been a hot spot for drug use and other street problems downtown.

Members of Victory Church now gather at the former Grace M.B. Church on Penticton Ave.