Comment 93653

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted October 24, 2013 at 13:22:55 in reply to Comment 93645

I'm actually pretty much on the developer's side with James Street Baptist Church, I just wish they'd been required to provide more concrete plans and commit to them - the parishioners and minister of the church agreed with the new company about the state of the building and their plan.

That said, the point is that this is and was a heritage property. That means the buyer went in knowing that there was an obligation to preserve the building to an impractical extreme. That's what heritage designation means: that you have a responsibility to the entire building to do as much as possible to keep its heritage features. In this case, that included the roof and the walls and things like that.

You know what the term is for "a building with historical features that you should try and preserve if it's convenient and profitable for you, but we're not really going to get worked up if you don't"? That's called a building.

If you don't want to deal with the obligations related to buying a heritage property, don't buy one. Caveat emptor.

The Gore Park buildings, for me, are far more about the total lack of a plan WRT reconstruction and Blanchard's history as a real-estate speculator. If Blanchard follows through quickly with his statements about rebuilding? I'll happily eat my words. But on the other hand, he's currently free to leave his property as a vacant eyesore for a decade or more while he courts buyers and tries to amass a larger plot.

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