When will the madness end…

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• I agree with Chris 100%. It would be nice to see the community set a standard for the developer to conform to. Worst case scenario: it gets torn down and a stuccoed "Dollar Store" opens up on the site. CCCCCRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGEEEEE!!!!!!

• The church in Pontiac is now home to Clutch Cargo’s. It’s a great place to see a concert or go dancing (especially when swing was big as they had a great lounge with big bands every weekend). Churches can be used for other things though. In the news recently the Alzheimer Society of Windsor will be moving into a church and Tom Hogarth moved his law office to an old church on Giles.

  That's a great church and I always wished that someone would scoop it up and live in it or make it a community centre or something. Such a shame!!

• Big Box religion is not that much different from Big Box retail both are selling an intangible good or dream that can't be maintained.

  "And another one gone, and another one gone, And another one bites the dust!"

• Chris is right, there is a chance to do it right, but you know as well as I do that we're going to end up with a stuccoed turd.

  The thing that I find odd about that church is that it wasn't suffering like the others. Face it that area of town has a lot of long time residents, and a lot of seinors. Heck even my wife's grandmother used to drive back there at least once a week to go to church.

  I don't think it suffered the same decline as others did.

  Strip mall here we come! :)

• Victoria Rose -- I had forgotten about the old Scientology church on Giles. Our lawyer, when we sold and moved to PEI, was in that building. It is a wonderful adaptive reuse example. The foyer of that building is absolutely stunning.

  How about doing a piece on that building Andrew? The shots of the interior would be outstanding!

• Josh - I just may... However for the record it was the Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist not Scientology who was the previous tennant.

  Not that I'm advocating any religion (to each their own) but Christain Science is a much different thing that the cult known as Scientology...

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ%2C_Scientist

• you have GOT to be kidding!! what is wrong with this city?? that area does NOT need another strip mall of any kind, what-so-ever. i wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn the bidder is the city of windsor. .....imagine a rexall goes up there? gotta compete with shoppers the next block over ya know. i seriously don't see what else it could be, because on 3 of those 4 corners you can get a helluva lot of stuff.
  and i was just looking at the spot on google earth, what ever is built there is going to have to be much smaller then the footprint the church to accomidate parking. what a waste.
  anyone know what else will go? about 15 (!!!!!!!) nicely matured trees. nice.

  there's also a library dedicated to someone a block to the west, they'd better start packin since the building has special meaning.

• In 10 years from now all this city will be is one big parking lot surrounded by crappy stucco covered nightmares.

• My great grandmother was a member of that church, Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist and I was in it a couple times when very young with her. Awed! Is a word that I would use. The Christian Scientist reading room has returned on Pelissier after many of years absent. The Christian Science Monitor is a very respected newspaper for its reporting.

• Urbanrat... I remember listening to Monitor Radio on the shortwave berfore it signed off sometime in the '90s. Its international service also had a reputation for complete and objective reporting, amidst a tug-o-war on the truth between Radio Habana and VOA. ;)