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236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed - Printable Version

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RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed - Acitta - 04-18-2024

(04-18-2024, 08:36 PM)panamaniac Wrote:
(04-18-2024, 08:34 PM)Acitta Wrote: Maybe GRR could buy that derelict building on Madison next to the tracks. I am tired of looking at it when I go by on Stirling. It needs to be either demolished or fixed up and used for something.

You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have been living near it on Stirling.

RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed - panamaniac - 04-18-2024

(04-18-2024, 08:39 PM)Acitta Wrote:
(04-18-2024, 08:36 PM)panamaniac Wrote: You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have been living near it on Stirling.

I could tell you stories of the railcars and tanks full of slimy, fetid green tannery waste leaking all over the ground, but you'd think I was exaggerating.  I don't know what substances are used in the leather tanning process, but I can't see the site as being anything other than heavily contaminated.

RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed - nms - 04-19-2024

(04-18-2024, 08:36 PM)panamaniac Wrote:
(04-18-2024, 08:34 PM)Acitta Wrote: Maybe GRR could buy that derelict building on Madison next to the tracks. I am tired of looking at it when I go by on Stirling. It needs to be either demolished or fixed up and used for something.

You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

They made it work for the Lang Tannery building downtown...

RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed - cherrypark - 04-19-2024

(04-18-2024, 09:34 PM)panamaniac Wrote:
(04-18-2024, 08:39 PM)Acitta Wrote: I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have been living near it on Stirling.

I could tell you stories of the railcars and tanks full of slimy, fetid green tannery waste leaking all over the ground, but you'd think I was exaggerating.  I don't know what substances are used in the leather tanning process, but I can't see the site as being anything other than heavily contaminated.

Chromium would be the green in the tanning process likely. Nasty stuff.

RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed - plam - 04-19-2024

(04-19-2024, 06:48 AM)nms Wrote:
(04-18-2024, 08:36 PM)panamaniac Wrote: You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

They made it work for the Lang Tannery building downtown...

I mean, if you put in millions of dollars, then you can remediate... That's why the US has Superfund.