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Originally Posted by someone123
One of the problems with Barrington is that there's a leisurely attitude toward fixing up buildings like this one. The city's the same way with public infrastructure. The state of the street just isn't seen as an urgent problem.
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Agreed. Barrington is our most important marquee street, historically, and even with SGR being busier these days, it's still one of the most important. It's ridiculous that a major structure like this is allowed to become essentially a bare concrete shell.
Not quite as bad, though, as what happened to Toronto's
Empress Hotel in 2010, when one wall collapsed under the weight of a massive sign, leading the building to be abandoned and the city to shut down two blocks of Yonge Street to protect drivers and pedestrians from further collapse. With no restoration plan from the owner or the city, it just sat there, semi-collapsed, for eight months, keeping Yonge Street half closed. Who knows how long that would've continued; an arsonist burned the whole thing down in January 2011.
So at least we're not the worst offenders, I guess?