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Originally Posted by Capital Shaun
The old Civic will be marked as heritage (if not already). It's not going anywhere.
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Ah, but only one or two buildings would be heritage. The
H-shaped building with the copper roofs including the little tail behind it would be restored, and possibly the building to the far left in the photo below ("Parkdale Clinic") could be preserved. The rest of the campus can easily be demolished and something new could be built. There's several small buildings, a bunch of surface parking lots and one large parkade that could be demolished and replaced with new buildings.
The main issue is that it would be very expensive. They would have to have a plan where buildings would be built in phases to shift clinics and beds to so that other buildings can be torn down and have something new built in its place. The restoration of the heritage buildings would also increase costs. But if they built underground parking and left the front along Carling grass, they could build a new hospital in a couple of decades on the same lot.
I've sinced changed my position and wish they would either use their campus better or move closer to downtown (Bayview or Lebreton) because we need a more central hospital along a decent transit line (the buses aren't reliable to get to the Civic, especially not if your shifts start before 6am). The fields are spectacular when viewed from the higher floors of the hospital, and losing that sight would be a shame. Studies find that just having a view of nature can calm people and help improve people's health.