04-14-2015, 02:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-14-2015, 05:32 PM by BuildingScout.)
(04-14-2015, 02:02 PM)nms Wrote: We're lucky to have what we have, but we've lost quite a bit of the Waterloo buildings that could have been converted to 'brick and beam' had the timing been better.
- The Seagram Distillery building (conveniently burnt down when the fire suppression system was disconnected after the plant closed)
- The Ontario Table and Chair building
These ones are sorely missed. I wish we had kept them. I think the distillery was given heritage protection and hence it "accidentally" caught fire. Had the city stepped in and bought the lands at fair (i.e. empty lot) value this would not have happened.
Quote:- All the industrial buildings where Waterloo Town Square is built
- The Labatt's brewery
I don't recall anything worth saving in the Carling/Labatt's complex. Nor do I see anything valuable in the Uptown. Of course WTS was such an eye sore that anything would have been preferable over converting Uptown into a parking lot. Funny how city council was obsessed with the housing situation near the universities while completely ignoring the destruction of Uptown.
Quote:- buildings within the Canbar and Sunshine complexes
Hmm... Nothing worth of heritage protection but it would have been nice to preserve at least one of the buildings in that site. In this case the city did purchase one of said structures. I'm not familiar with how and when it divested itself from this property.