Comment 91450

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted August 27, 2013 at 20:29:43 in reply to Comment 91414

Let's be honest with ourselves - the location is terrible. Look at the similarly located and constantly empty Museum of Steam Technology. If the city had some impressive investment planned for the whole area surrounding the darned thing? Yes, it could work. But as it stands?

This isn't the Gore, where buildings were in-use downtown. This isn't the Board of Ed, which could have been renovated for a reasonable sum and was an active, functional office building. This isn't even Sanford School that had potential as a condo development and was located in a residential area.

With its mediocre location, this lighthouse would be another Shiela Copps Discovery Centre.

The city has a million little museums dotting its landscape, and they're almost uniformly underutilized. Adaptive reuse implies use. Unless something more dynamic and clever is done with these structures, it's going to be pickled and forgotten at substantial expense. One more white elephant sucking up the city's funds that could go to projects where Hamiltonians actually live.

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