02-02-2018, 12:49 PM
(02-02-2018, 11:16 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(02-02-2018, 11:05 AM)urbd Wrote: Do you think it has significant architectural value? It doesn't... it has history, but in its current condition it has no architectural value.
Architectural? Probably not. Historical/industrial heritage? I can think of no more important site in Kitchener. To save nothing of, for example, the bit fronting Courtland that dates (I think) back to the 1920s seems to me to be a needless loss of local historical memory. It is what it is, but I regret it.
Apparently the factory buildings are in very poor structural condition so it really wasn't feasibly to keep them (and convert them to lofts or offices). Keeping the façade only ... well, the façade isn't that special, so I quite understand the decision here.