I think the whole dark-by-4pm thing is starting to have its yearly affect on everyone. Especially me apparently, because if what is proposed isn't gorgeous/innovative/interesting , I don't think I'll like it.
I dislike the blue boarded windows as much as the next guy, but it really is a pretty building otherwise, and at least there is a functioning, useful business operating inside rather than an empty building with a bunch of sun-faded Colliers logos slapped on the windows. Letting some "meh" tower to be built on this site just for the sake of development would be a tragedy. Go do that on one of the surface lots.
As an aside, anyone else ever looked at those blue boarded windows and thought, "Hey, imagine if they commissioned some mini murals on those". Always thought that having the 3rd floor windows be painted by local artists would have be spectacular at improving the building aesthetic. That, and if only there was one retail CRU on the SW corner that would open the windows to be at