Comment 545

By MattM (registered) | Posted June 01, 2006 at 17:36:33

Good points raised Mark. Just for the record, lets go over what has happened since Lister was abandoned. Metrus bought the building in the mid '90s, closing the upper floors, keeping merchants on the ground and 2nd floor until completely abandoning the building sometime in the later '90s. In 1996 there were 3 fires. I assume they were the one on the 3rd floor corner of the building, the one on the 2nd floor across from the stairs, and another I have yet to confirm myself.

Metrus sold the building off to LIUNA in 1999. Since then there has been:

  • a fire on the 2nd floor (nothing major, just a couch and a bit of wall)

  • much higher counts of vandalism throughout the whole building

  • fire on the main floor to the Tait Gibson

  • fire on the main floor just last month

  • the building was wide open for 2-3 weeks last summer. It was wide open again last month for about a week. Last summer's wide opena access permitted the fire in the Tait Gibson. Last month's entry permitted the fire on the main floor. The building continues to be wide open at all times in an area I won't disclose. It has been open for more than a year now. People DO use it to get into the building.

So we can see that both sides have done a very lazy job of keeping the building in good condition. I don't really have much more to add to the argument, other than the fact that I'm obviously behind restoring and not replicating. We know it's possible, we know it is financially feasible. Why won't it happen? That I'm not entirely sure about. I can only hope June 12th will side in our favour... but I know its looking grim.

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