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Originally Posted by someone123
The good news is that if one day someone wants to restore the building it's still possible without much reconstruction.
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That's very true. As I said, I couldn't help but voice those negative comments but I recognize that this glass is more than half full (just not completely full, which would be a proper, tasteful restoration) here. Obviously, an imperfect heritage building with potential is greatly preferable to no more building.
FWIW, I did make that argument once to Sherbrooke's City Council (that a temporarily boarded up, downtown multistory centenarian building was preferable to forcing me to turn it into an immediate, permanent surface parking lot). They disagreed.