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Old Posted Oct 13, 2019, 1:25 PM
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Originally Posted by headhorse View Post
honestly, seeing the bay as a new civic centre would be great. new library, new galleries and museums, archives... there is no future for it that's not institutional so we might as well start planning for that.
The problem is that virtually all of those functions have facilities of their own already... you move the WAG, the WPL, the Provincial archives, whatever else in there, what do you do with all the space they leave behind?

Personally I'm not crazy about the idea of moving institutions that deserve the prominence of a standalone building into The Bay as if it was just the men's shoe department, stashed away on the fourth floor somewhere.

The Bay is a great building but it could just be that there is no practical reason to keep it anymore. Because a company decided to make money by building a store a century ago doesn't mean that the public purse should be responsible for maintaining it in perpetuity... this is not the Acropolis we're talking about here.
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