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[mleblanc]

Originally Posted by JustinHiscock

What's going in its place?

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=7593510
7 floor residential

[robotropolis]

There's a new pro-Dartmouth organization in town and you can probably guess who's chairing it! G-dog herself.

Gloria McCluskey is back, baby
http://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/...y-is-back-baby
(Jacob Boon, Jan 12 TheCoast)

Gloria McCluskey isn’t letting retirement slow her down.

The former Dartmouth Centre councillor is now association chair for the newly created Destination Dartmouth association, which a press release says was formed “to promote Dartmouth’s identity, preserve its heritage and encourage the development of a healthy and inclusive community.” [...]

The first order of business for the new organization? Requesting that the name of HRM’s Centre Plan be officially changed to the “Halifax-Dartmouth Centre Plan.”

[JustinFromMontebello]

Originally Posted by robotropolis

There's a new pro-Dartmouth organization in town and you can probably guess who's chairing it! G-dog herself.

Gloria McCluskey is back, baby
http://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/...y-is-back-baby
(Jacob Boon, Jan 12 TheCoast)

The first order of business for the new organization? Requesting that the name of HRM’s Centre Plan be officially changed to the “Halifax-Dartmouth Centre Plan.”

Classic Gloria. I love Dartmouth (see my name), but I honestly think these small battles over naming do nothing but diminish the credibility of the person making the argument. This is made worse by the fact that this is the supposed first act of a new group.

[TheGreenBastard]

[portapetey]

Where is this?

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by portapetey

Where is this?

I don't know, but the collapsed fence about to fall on the Taurus wagon is a nice touch.

[Aya_Akai]

Originally Posted by portapetey

Where is this?

A quick bit of research finds this apartment is called "The Sherwood" located on Rhuland St. in Halifax

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by HaliStreaks

A quick bit of research finds this apartment is called "The Sherwood" located on Rhuland St. in Halifax

It looks like they are removing the brick and replacing it with metal cladding. What a sad renovation this will be.

[midasmull]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

It looks like they are removing the brick and replacing it with metal cladding. What a sad renovation this will be.

It was done out of necessity:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2841533/ci...ment-building/

[Keith P.]

That building was a dump 30 years ago when I lived in that neighborhood. I wonder what it is like now, bricks aside.

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by midasmull

It was done out of necessity:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2841533/ci...ment-building/

Thanks for the information. I just wish that the new cladding was something better than grey metal cladding. Replacing brick with brick would have been a better option, but more costly.

[IanWatson]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

Thanks for the information. I just wish that the new cladding was something better than grey metal cladding.

I think you could clad the building in jewel-encrusted gold and it would still look like an abomination. Fixing that building requires doing something about having a blank wall face the street.

[Ziobrop]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

That building was a dump 30 years ago when I lived in that neighborhood. I wonder what it is like now, bricks aside.

i was in it a year or so ago. its not in bad shape. its mostly students, but its not a dump.

[counterfactual]

Originally Posted by robotropolis

There's a new pro-Dartmouth organization in town and you can probably guess who's chairing it! G-dog herself.

Gloria McCluskey is back, baby
http://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/...y-is-back-baby
(Jacob Boon, Jan 12 TheCoast)

God, she is a totally useless tool. Go. Away. Gloria.

[TheNovaScotian]

Originally Posted by TheGreenBastard

My car was parked next to it when the top two floors worth of brick landed feet away from my car prompting the police to call me to move it. The building was buckling under the weight of the bricks and the whole building was twisting. I even spoke to the engineer and architect on site the next day unknowingly and said it would better if they started from scratch.
It was ugly before, atleast the renovations put windows to break up the curtain wall on each end.....still think it would have been better as a slender new proposal

[Metalsales]

You are correct. The building was so poorly built, that the weight of the building has basically crushed the windows on the ground floor.

There was a plan to add structure to keep this from buckling, but not sure if this has happened, or even will.

You will also always get these cheap fixes when the rent is not a premium building. Why would an owner spend a premium, when he they will not see it in return?

[alps]

The building is twisting and buckling? Isn't that an emergency...?

[teddifax]

in tomorrow's Chronicle Herald.... http://thechronicleherald.ca/busines...siness_insider The Red Cross building is now available for development.

[JustinFromMontebello]

Originally Posted by teddifax

in tomorrow's Chronicle Herald.... http://thechronicleherald.ca/busines...siness_insider The Red Cross building is now available for development.

Height limit, as of right, of 23 meters/7 stories. Wonder how much a developer could push for.

[IanWatson]

Originally Posted by JustinFromMontebello

Height limit, as of right, of 23 meters/7 stories. Wonder how much a developer could push for.

They can't. Well, I mean they COULD, but it would require an amendment to the Downtown Halifax Plan. The last Council was very reluctant to amend the Downtown Halifax Plan, and the new Council appears to be like they would be even more reluctant to do so.