"It's clear that Harry Stinson didn't have foresight considering the history of his failed developments." QUOTE junctionist.
I have known Harry Stinson since '73/4; too long ago to quite remember.
Re the T D Bank building on King Street: If it hadn't been for Harry, it would have been long gone, as in demolished.
Harry is not the normal type of guy, no matter what he tries his hand at or does, ever. He has vision, stamina, and BALLS for a project.
You mention his "failed developments", and now I will tell you "why". (re "The Candy Factory", loft conversion.)
After having opened the door for him, it was I who had to close that same door. (Harry, don't shoot me, I am only the messenger.)
It was pure out and out greed , bad business, + stupidity, as well as being illegal, on the behalf of two of the three owning partners
of the property. Harry vacated, retained counsel, and was THE VICTOR. ( Much to the loss of the third "I don't want to do this to Harry", partner.)
So here we have one of the three owning partners out money, with the other two, also out money, along with Harry, although recouping his
monetery loss, HIS, HE GAVE "The Candy Factory", it's name, and this became one of his "failures", through no fault of his own.
As the above finally turned out, the three partners owning the property became two, after having bought out the third, and commenced
construction. They LOST so much cash on the project that they decided not to condo what was to later become The Chocolate Factory Lofts.
(The original three partners had previous to all of this, sold their n/s Queen property to Artscape.)
Harry "won", but the above did his reputation harm.
Regards,
J T
"And now you know, the rest of the story."
