The SideDoor Youth Centre and YWCA NWT have found new office space on Franklin Avenue after the GNWT's state of emergency nullified their pending lease with the City of Yellowknife to occupy the Mine Rescue building.

Hawa Dumbaya-Sesay, executive director of YWCA NWT, said this week that she and Tammy Roberts, executive director of SideDoor, were finalizing the use of the office space above the Canada Post Office SA国际影视传媒� formerly occupied by the Native Women's Association of the NWT.

The City of Yellowknife confirmed in a statement last week that a lease for SideDoor and YWCA to use the city-0wned Mine Rescue building had been granted prior to the GNWT declaring a state of emergency on Nov. 6, which turned the space into a temporary day shelter, which is the way it's expected to remain until May 31, 2021.

As a result, "all processes related to the potential lease were placed on hold," said Alison Harrower, media spokesperson for the city.

Harrower stated that the city is looking forward to working with SideDoor and the YWCA to finalize the lease "for implementation in 2021."

"The city continues to work with SideDoor on their application for space to be used by themselves and the YWCA," Harrower stated. "We remain hopeful that an option arises that can meet their needs in the interim."

Dumbaya-Sesay said she expects that once the move into the space above the Canada Post Office is finalized in early January, her organization will use the location for the next several months and then explore the possibility of occupying the Mine Rescue building at the end of May when the GNWT vacates the location.