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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Well, it had already been repurposed once in its life, as it started as a car dealership/service dept/gas station/car storage facility with internal vehicle ramps all the way up to the roof. It's original second life with the CBC gave it a more conventional use but even then it retained the area at ground level on the corner where the gas pumps used to be. What replaced it has enough of the original's curvature at the corner to satisfy me. At some point you have to take a step back and decide what makes sense.
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Sure, there are a lot of ways that you can look at it. IIRC there was also a car rental business in there concurrent with CBC. I think repurposing it as a bar/restaurant/entertainment facility with a rooftop patio would have been cool, but I can't say if this would be a practical idea. There was certainly more money to be made in redeveloping it.
FWIW, if it were up to me, I would have kept the 1920s vintage Irving station just up the street, but it wasn't up to me...
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