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I've driven by this factory on Notre Dame Avenue in Winnipeg probably hundreds of times.

Nothing special, just a cluster of buildings, including a warehouse in a showroom.

It's looking pretty tired these days.

This former NIGARD factory has now shut down after the business's recent financial decline.

The NIGARD companies were nearly $50 million in debt to as many as 350 creditors around the world.

In March 2020, a judge ordered that the companies be taken out of NIGARD's hands and his properties be put up for sale,

including these on Notre Dame Avenue.

The real estate photos provide a rare peak inside.

Most show a typical industrial space, garages with one of NIGARD's signature Excalibur cars, meeting rooms, and workshops.

As I'm scrolling through the photos, I suddenly stop.

There are three showing Peter NIGARD's so-called executive suite, a floor of shiny black tiles,

a modern kitchen, and a giant bed covered with white sheets.

Though I've never been inside, I know this room.

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