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Was a HUGE hole in the ground for the longest time!!
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I do remember that hole, and the hording, as a kid. When the project collapsed, it was treated as quite a scandal in the media.
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And the Bell building was originally designed to be expandable to 23 floors!
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And it still is.
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That is an interesting render for the JLC block - not sure who did that one.
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Yes, the facade of the mall was to be quite interesting. then again who knows what would actually have got built. The Campeau project (Galleria) literally promised city council that it would have storefront windows at every external wall fronting on to a street to keep that downtown storefront feel. We all know what happened with that, so who know what the Cambridge project at the JLC site would actually have looked like. The simulated heritage facades may well have only been an attempt to placate the heritage preservation faction who was fighting the project tooth and nail. I'm not sure many here were around for the very, very ugly battle over the demolition of the block for the big development that never happened.
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Hopefully someone can dig up something about the huge towers for the JLC block...
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One can always check out the Free Press, circa '86 or '87. There were images published in the paper at the time.