Strata | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed

[ijmorlan]

From this week's Chronicle:

Elgie isn’t alone in her concerns, either. Other area residents, like Stephen Herzog, are equally worried.

“I value the mid-century modern King Street facade of the post office building and the existing green space in front of the building along King Street. I would like to see this preserved in any redevelopment,” said Herzog.

I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I would say that the post office is a familiar, attractive building, especially when it still had the Canada coat of arms on it. It’s a part of the city. That doesn’t mean that it needs to stay. Especially if the new building is something really high quality, then that is just part of the evolution of the city. I can even expect to miss the way things were and still be favour of proceeding. Heritage preservation shouldn’t be about stasis but about preserving enough of the right stuff to allow the best of different time periods to co-exist.