Today we wrap up the downtown series with a tour of “The Avenue South District” or whatever moronic fake brand has been assigned to the area south of Wyandotte.
Junky, messy tags.
The results of harmless partying?
Long time downtown retailer Doctor Disc. The only business now left in this vintage brick building.
Painting bricks are second in my list of architectural crimes. At least it’s not stuccoed.
Vacant
Vacant
The former Jokers Building. We covered it in depth back in September. Around the time I covered it they went to town stripping out the copper and metal from the interior.
A peak inside reveals that it is gutted, and it also looks like the enemy of buildings everywhere – water – has worked its way inside.
Another vacancy…
…and another.
The vacant bingo parlours also have snow covered sidewalks. Someone owns these buildings, why are the sidewalks not cleaned?
Shameful. Allowing the sidewalks to remain in this condition shows a lack of respect for the downtown and the residents who have to walk these streets. Where is the City? These should be cleared and billed back. As you can see above the building is “SOLD” so there is a new owner, no excuses for this.
This turd was built in the early 90’s. After only a few years of occupancy, the CIBC closed the branch and the building sits vacant. I would bet that at this point in time the building has been vacant longer than it was ever occupied. It’s a disgrace that one of the key intersections in this city in the heart of downtown, has a building this ugly on it. In my opinion I would love to see the building levelled and the entire Wyandotte St. frontage redeveloped.
More tagging. No excuse for this either. In a prominent location on Ouellette, this should be covered over immediately.
That’s all. Leave your shooters and empty smokes laying around and head back to Michigan. Thanks for littering and treating our core as your playground! See you again tonight I’m sure…
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GTdeath I was downtown on Friday and again on Monday,I also have a history of working in the downtown, 1955-1971, 1988-2002.I have seen the better days and today, the sucsses of a retail buishnes is townwnn provide products and service to attract customers.Windsors downtown retailer found they could not compete or moved other locations, partly because Windsor had very restictive shopping bylays, do you shop on Wednesday afternoon, shop after six pm buy gas on Sunday? In Windsor in the fifties and early sixtie you could not in Windsor.Thats why Doorwin Plaza, Yorkton Square, Gateway Plaza came about, then the malls.
When the Casino was being proppsed it was going to be a step to revitalize the downtown.