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Originally Posted by Keith P.
The Power Cottage is an unfortunate example to use as it was wildly, ridiculously, extravagantly expensive project with absolutely no limits to what tax dollars were spent. A lovely but unused building that still has not found any real purpose except to shw how HRM likes to throw around money. We cannot preserve things without regard to cost.
The examples you cite that were victims of the urban renewal of the 1960s are typical of what occurred in many large cities at the time and were unfortunate losses in some cases. But it is not germane to what we are discussing, which is what is happening now.
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While we're on the topic, the Power Cottage is a prime example of the evils of neglect. Had the building been maintained properly over the years, the pricetag to bring it back would not have been nearly as much. Halifax was only paying to fix their own previous mistakes of mismanagement. At least they had the sense to save it and not just tear it down like many others in the past.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...tion-1.4542238
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The brick building, with its rounded windows and gleaming copper, is now arguably one of the most striking historic buildings in the city. But time — and lack of maintenance — had taken its toll before the exterior was restored.
A 2014 city staff report listed it as being in the worst condition of all buildings owned by the municipality in 2013.
When crews tackled the exterior work beginning in 2014, they found rotten wood, mould, asbestos and a beetle infestation. The basement floor even gave out partway through the project.
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