Xtend
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Do the fountains increase in height and meet in the middle at the top of the dome anymore, or is it just the one lower bundt-cake height now?
Reno work at the Haultain building.
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I wonder if they are gutting it. The last major renovation upgraded the ventilation, but the ceiling space was quite limited. They had left the old asbestos tile attached to the ceiling and just built below.
If it helps I was there last night and the height of the fountain is the same in the photo previously provided. One nice touch is it now lit up with LEDs for different colours.Do the fountains increase in height and meet in the middle at the top of the dome anymore, or is it just the one lower bundt-cake height now?
These lots should be sold to the highest bidder (with no floor), which would be contractually obligated to develop within a framework that could be extremely profitable for the developer, and extremely sustainable regarding tax revenue. These Boyle Street lots would be better off sold for $1 each than sit as gravel lots any months longer.The one-time residential lots were bought up by the City back in the 1960s -1970s with a view to repurposing the land to develop "pristine woodlands" -- myself and urban Planner Larry Taylor convinced the City to stop this idiocy (much as we should be doing now with the City's program to buy up residential lots in Boyle Street, demolishing the houses thereon and then hoping to sell to a developer for some grand refresh scheme). The City finally did stop but ended up with ownership of a disjointed puzzle of raw land and absolutely no idea of what to do with it. I have proposed that it be a site along with the Historic Power Plant Building for a permanent World Indigenous Peoples' Exposition -- that idea (with the City) is slow to take root.
Yes, the problem partly is that others make money by building and developing things. Cities do not. So there is more of an incentive for private owners to do something with their holdings.The one-time residential lots were bought up by the City back in the 1960s -1970s with a view to repurposing the land to develop "pristine woodlands" -- myself and urban Planner Larry Taylor convinced the City to stop this idiocy (much as we should be doing now with the City's program to buy up residential lots in Boyle Street, demolishing the houses thereon and then hoping to sell to a developer for some grand refresh scheme). The City finally did stop but ended up with ownership of a disjointed puzzle of raw land and absolutely no idea of what to do with it. I have proposed that it be a site along with the Historic Power Plant Building for a permanent World Indigenous Peoples' Exposition -- that idea (with the City) is slow to take root.