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Originally Posted by Empire
I really hope the Armoury isn't converted to residential. The result would likely be similar to the converted church disaster on Robie St.
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Uses: - farmer's market
- high end retail
- performing arts centre
- hotel
- hostel
- concert hall
- YMCA
- culinary college
- military museum
- aquarium
- pool/tennis facility
- transit terminal like Grand Central or Union Station
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I could see high end retail, but I'm not sure we want to draw such merchants away from street fronts like Barrington, at least at this point. Though, I suppose, better to have them at a renovated Armoury than in Dartmouth Crossing.
I mean, the thing is huge, so you could turn it into a number of things. I quite like the idea of a combined (a) performing arts centre (b) concert hall (c) retail style market; and you know, you could still have residential there, but in an attached glass tower.
Let's get Frank Gehry down here, seek out some private sector dollars, and end up with the "Four Seasons Centre of Performing Arts" (including a concert hall and museum", with design that fuses modern with the older architecture: