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Originally Posted by jeddy1989
yeah, we've been doing this for years.. even some old churches downtown have been re-purposed in to condos and offices...
I guess if people are referring to the keeping of the facade while building behind it like that block in Halifax, yeah we don't have much of that but I don't see a need to if we can reuse the whole building as is (like the guy in the video said is the ideal situation) however I think the historic areas of downtown are being very nicely preserved and it's a practice we already do. As copes pointed out we have some mixing of the preservation and adding modern aspects to projects like the Belevedere Orphanage.
Edit: Even the old general hospital off Forest road went through this repurpose instead of being torn down and had an extension added along with pretty much a whole neighborhood lol
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The best example of repurposing in a completely downtown urban format in St. John's, will be the Henry Bell Project if completed as planned, since they are using whole structures and adding to them, which is generally preferable to just using the façade approach.
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