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Originally Posted by Keith P.
It is absolutely horrendous, full of asbestos and mold. The interior needs to be totally gutted and restructured internally, right down to the elevator shafts and floor decks.
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Lots of old buildings have/had asbestos and mold. My house has asbestos. I'd be fine with a total interior gut job. It's just the shell that's valuable at this point--but it's really valuable. The two-layered architecture depicting the demarcation between the original and post-fire rebuild, the dignified bearing, and of course, all the prominent Haligonians and Nova Scotians who've been involved with it. And, this is just opinion, but I think it's a damn fine-looking structure.
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Originally Posted by Counterfactual
What do you think about a private developer that incorporates the Dennis into a larger development?
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Would be great. It'd be nice to keep the profile of the building as you look west (i.e., not have a much taller building hulking behind it) but I wouldn't get too picky if the shell of thr Dennis itself was restored and kept safe for another few decades.
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