Back on the 7th, we took final look at Ada C. Richards School. Last weekend, I swung by to take a look at the aftermath.
The structure is completely gone. Just a pile of rubble remains.
The sidewalk to the door remains, but lead only to bricks.
Houses on side streets are now visible from Ontario Street. No idea what the future holds for this parcel of land. It was sold earlier in the year, and is not owned by the school board any longer.
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it's gonna probably sit idle for a few years until someone buys it from the school board it would make a nice park for that neighbourhood but i'm betting some developer will cut a street into the lot and build houses i went to that school back in the 50"s
i spoke with the owner sometime last week and he plans to develop the land with raised ranch houses.
I heard there are going to be 15 ranch style houses on the property. If you would like a brick from the school the new owner says we can get bricks after they sort them Cindy Hillis
Raised Ranches.... Zzzzz.
While I welcome the development, there are other styles of single family homes.
It would be interesting to see a more urban approach taken here.
raised ranches won't fit in to the style of the neighborhood this is one of the city's older neighborhoods but we all know the city! gotta get the tax base
something like that happened in Toronto about 20 years ago rich oriental business men built huge homes dubbed monster homes in some older part of the city and the people living in that neighborhood complained that the newer homes were too BIG!!! for the rest of the existing homes in the area
Gary your right. This neighbourhood, much like my own has the front porch thing going for it. I can't image if someone built a row of raised ranches in front of my house... Nothing like sitting on your porch looking at garage doors!
Excuse my grammar... "Gary you're right"
I would have bet condos and now think a condo apartment building might have been better than "raised ranch houses" in the neighbourhood. Who do they think is going to have the money for them, anyway - in either case? I suppose they'd fit into the aspirations for Windsor as a retirement communtity. I'm a Windsorite born and bred but wouldn't invest money in the city these days!
Clare i think your right a senior's high rise would probably been a better bet for the property i think whatever the developer ends up doing is gonna change the whole fabric of that neighborhood