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[Keith P.]

Well, I dunno. If you look at Barrington you have the Roy, a new build meant to honor the old decrepit original which I’m sure would have turned out much differently otherwise, the old Zellers/Discovery building, the Green Lantern, the Tramway, and the perpetual NFB project. The ones lost were typical old individual buildings that had been stitched together over the years like the SGR projects at Queen St., which would have been extremely difficult to do much with. But even with other examples of that like the old McKelvie’s and surrounding buildings, what replaced them was largely a homage to what was there, which likely introduced both compromises with the new structures and significant extra cost. The “glass is always empty” mentality is endemic locally but I think some pushback towards it is reasonable.