Comment 66964

By Fred Street (anonymous) | Posted July 27, 2011 at 12:25:07 in reply to Comment 66962

Our leaders definitely lowered the bar with the City Hall reno. It's anyone's guess what "saving" the Board of Ed building would look like.

There may be other reasons for skepticism. Drawing again on the Lister Block example, it took a decade from the time that building emptied (and seven years under owners LIUNA) before it was designated a provincial heritage building... then another two years to reach agreement on a municipal buy-in... then another three years to restore the property to AAA standards and heritage specs. And that's a key snag in this or other re-use sites: McMaster is working on a much shorter timeline than that (even once you include the years of planning that have gone into the campus thus far): "McMaster requires space to accommodate increasing numbers of family medicine residents. The province of Ontario has provided funding for the expansion and spaces must be available by 2013."

http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=8111

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