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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
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In fact in every single picture but one you can see "this street" (King Street, the main street of the city).
The one exception is the next-to-last with the two white Victorians, which is slightly outside downtown, and really doesn't belong in that selection at all, I just came upon it by chance (it was already among my pics that were online) and decided to include it.
If you removed that one picture you could call the whole selection of pics "King Street Downtown Sherbrooke" and it would be accurate.
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That's beautiful! Looks like there are quite a few spaces to fill in, but that's enough for a great urban sense of lifestyle.
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... Unfortunately the spaces aren't being filled. I'd even say, quite the contrary. Actually, barely three years ago the city forced me to replace a 4-story 100+ years old building with a parking lot, because the rehab wasn't going fast enough for them. That "empty space" is nowadays empty. I use it for parking for my other buildings next to it. (I have to admit, that parking space has been very useful since then, I can understand why people generally tend to want to tear down buildings for parking. The quality of my tenants is completely different now that they nearly all have cars.)
And I'm not the only relatively recent case of this, another building on King Street downtown happened to lose a brick that fell on the sidewalk, and the City basically forced the owner to replace it by a big hole in the urban fabric. That was a couple years ago. The gaping hole is still there...
Pics in reverse chrono order. Pics by myself.
And yes just like I like to shame Brantford on this forum for what they did I think Sherbrooke also deserves it be told online like it is!
So shame on them...