Chris R. said:
Based on the above architectural documents, it appears they are shrinking the commercial component significantly into a single shallow unit rather than keeping the 4 or 5 deep individual units.
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Yeah the first floor i a bit deeper with the middle part looking like its one big atrium entrance, with the other floors being very narrow.. the whole thing is just a damn shell for parking which sucks. These plots were sooo deep originally. Now all plots are just gonna be tiny storefronts with the majority being internal parking..

the only problem with it being sent back to the drawing board is the more time passes, the more these deteriorate - they might not last much longer...

you echoed a lot of my sentiments - glad to see another person who values history and good design on here :)
 
Chronamut said:
Yeah the first floor i a bit deeper with the middle part looking like its one big atrium entrance, with the other floors being very narrow.. the whole thing is just a damn shell for parking which sucks. These plots were sooo deep originally. Now all plots are just gonna be tiny storefronts with the majority being internal parking..

the only problem with it being sent back to the drawing board is the more time passes, the more these deteriorate - they might not last much longer...

you echoed a lot of my sentiments - glad to see another person who values history and good design on here :)
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I wrote about my distaste toward parking shells on Twitter and spoke a bit about the depth of these old units:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1775927848018039027
 
Chronamut said:
I say we park all the cars on top of the highrises and use slides to have them drive down like futuristic speedways lolol
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Hotwheelization of our car infrastructure?

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Completely unacceptable and also completely unsurprising. The city needs to seize this land and sell it to a willing landowner for neglect. Get a CIP together and expropriate it, whatever. There is precedent and it’s a disgrace that Blanchard can sit on this site and let it rot when it’s such a prominent location in the city.
 
This is EXACTLY what they were relying on and what I had been warning about for years - neglect until it collapses, then build something new on top - completely unacceptable and we all saw it coming. Completely criminal. You won't let us knock it down? Ok we will just buy it, neglect it and let it collapse on its own.

They should be charged with criminal neglect and malicious intent towards a pre-confederation building. It was stated for years that the destruction of the building next to it was causing structural instability to the wall of that building.

I noticed in the mail the other day the city is now charging people who leave a building vacant.. hopefully this will help deter things like this - this has been boarded up since what.. 2007? Our core deserves better than this - what other city has it where you can't even utilize the main core of the city? Gore park was built before anything else in hamilton, it should be the most beautiful vibrant and happening place in the entire city. I am so angry. Sue the damn developers.. them and tivoli too.. mark my words, in every history book they will be vilified for this.

..to be fair though.. this building WOULD have collapsed eventually REGARDLESS. Without the supporting building beside it it was in a sense doomed, and the 2 beside it probably are as well without some wall shoring support.
 
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Chronamut said:
This is EXACTLY what they were relying on and what I had been warning about for years - neglect until it collapses, then build something new on top - completely unacceptable and we all saw it coming. Completely criminal. You won't let us knock it down? Ok we will just buy it, neglect it and let it collapse on its own.

They should be charged with criminal neglect and malicious intent towards a pre-confederation building. It was stated for years that the destruction of the building next to it was causing structural instability to the wall of that building.

I noticed in the mail the other day the city is now charging people who leave a building vacant.. hopefully this will help deter things like this - this has been boarded up since what.. 2007? Our core deserves better than this - what other city has it where you can't even utilize the main core of the city? Gore park was built before anything else in hamilton, it should be the most beautiful vibrant and happening place in the entire city. I am so angry. Sue the damn developers.. them and tivoli too.. mark my words, in every history book they will be vilified for this.

..to be fair though.. this building WOULD have collapsed eventually REGARDLESS. Without the supporting building beside it it was in a sense doomed, and the 2 beside it probably are as well without some wall shoring support.
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You certainly called this one. Though I wish you hadn’t…
 
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