Death Fences

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• Hindsight is 20/20 -- or so the saying goes. Unfortunately, it will take some time (a few months --- maybe more) to realize what a terrible mistake the demolition of this building will be. Add in the destruction of the Seagrave Building and this summer will go down as one of the deadliest in recent memory for heritage buildings.

  I wonder if someone is keeping a list of the buildings lost in Windsor to forward through to Heritage Canada for use in future campaigns? It was good to see, though sad, the Seagrave Building in their latest campaign.

• What's a demolition without a little last minute graffitt on it? It doesn't matter what you put on it, whether it says "Canada" or an arabic curse word. Are two negatives supposed to be a positive now? It's very ghetto. Even chalk is hard to get out of brick. No wonder why so many moved to sprawlsville--no one stops and does anything about graffitti maniacs along a busy street. Oh and the choice of words. What, people have no clue to figure out a fence means demolition? What are the they gonna write next? Chalk on the Bistro that says, "You are next to the river." How about chalking the front of a church, "This looks like a church" Whoever did that needs to get a life. Show some class and decency, set by example and complain to council, vote for new councilors at election time, contact a Windsor star reporter or tape a flyer up that can be easily removed.

• Its going to be strange not to see that nice building anymore I grew up in the old walkerville area and been in the bank sveral times before it closed I just wonder if it going to be another empty parking lot., notice the half empty plaza directly behind the bank really makes me wonder what will repalce that bank

• I truly hope that someone is allowed access to the inside to salvage some interior trim and doors. Knowing Windsor however I doubt this will happen and it will all en dup in the landfill.
  While cities like Regina Sask. have policies to insure that houses are salvaged before demolition Windsor instead decides to possibly make home owners pay for garbage tags.

  Whatever happened to changing the conversation or thinking outside the box? Like everythign else in Windsor our mentality of all things are still stuck in the 1970s.

• Do what people do to advertisers who support shows people object to (usually it's from an annoying special interest/anti-free speech angle, but the tactic may work here): start a letter writing/emailing campaign to the businesses in that plaza telling them you will not shop there and will encourage others not to because of this event.

• When will the city wake up and stop the rape of our built environment? Hopefully it will stop once King Eddie and his cohorts are voted out of office. Our city council is allowing the developers to strip this city of its' most valuable assets in order to make more room for parking or to avoid paying for maintenance on old buildings. Why put money into a historic building in Windsor's core when you can build a brand-new big-box development out in the suburbs? The city needs to pass policies that promote rehabilitation and reuse of existing buildings instead of making it easier for businesses to leave the city.

• george,
  You know as well as I do they just don't have the will nor the backbone to do it. They will site that they will not turn down "development" in such economic times yet this has gone on unabated since the late '60s.

• I've been a Windsor resident for only a few years and won't be for much longer. In my time here I've found Windsor to be, for the most part, a very ugly city, and this sort of thing is why. Windsor has so few beautiful old buildings, and because of it, even when compared to somewhere like Toronto, Windsor lacks a soul. Windsor looks like it spontaneously sprung up in the 1970s.

  That this gorgeous building is going down is tragic, but par for the course for the "city of roses".

• HEY DAVE: GLAD YOUR LEAVING STAY OUT IF YOU THINK WINDSOR IS SO UGLY

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