[Drybrain]

I wouldn't want to lead a walk--I'd be terrible at it

But I think it'd be fascinating to see a downtown endangered/demolished buildings walk: The whole Doyle Street block owned by Westwood (Tom's Little Havana, etc), the Green Lantern, the Dennis, the Roy site, the buildings at the 22nd COmmerce Square block (especially the Champlain), and the Khyber (which isn't imminently at-risk, but is quite possibly in for a long, slow decline if the city doesn't pay up to save it).

I'm pretty certain there's no comparably dense concentration of significant endangered buildings in Canada--which gives the lie to the idea that a lot of people have that this is just the price of progress. It's quite surprising and a bit shocking when you tally it all up and compare with other cities. It's extra worrisome given that our most-at-risk structures are also some of the biggest and most impressive historic buildings we have (Green Lantern, Dennis). And it's REALLY incredible that several fall within our "conservation" district.

The framing fits right in there with Jane Jacobs as an early pioneer of architectural conservation: new ideas use old buildings, and all that.