Stuccolicious

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• I couldn't agree more. Stucco, weird imprints, and the up and down air conditioning window openings on the second floor?? Come on! The designer and the decision makers at Rosati must have been smoking crack when they approved this one. And, it's not like if this building was designated that no one would have put it back to use. I believe they bought this 18,000 sq ft. building from the bank for a meagre $150,000? This building really does look like a bag of shit now. We need to get some stucco laws and architectural standards and restrictions in the planning department fast.

• I hate to say it, but in some cases, Stucco gets a bad rap. Assuming the owner wanted to "modernise" the building above, he didn't do a half bad job of it. If you want to go after him for something, how bout those windows on the second floor? Down, up, down, up, down, up. My grandson could have done a better job with a set of Leggos.

  As to voting, remember that you're renewing your license to moan and complain about the government and how it treats you. You don't vote, you can't bitch.

  And thank God I'm not standing for re-election this year. My council seat in my little town comes up next fall........

• Well, I guess it's OK - do you have a before picture? The windows look like some young archy student's attempt at style or whimsy. I think some people think brick looks plain, that stucco spruces up a dreary old building. What is that other stuff called they use in England - that stone pebble/concrete mix? That would be worse. Besides, we don't want to put the stucco guys out of work too.

• The question remains. Why so much stucco?

  O.k. around the front entrances and at the top of the building it wouldn't be so bad as it would harmonize the building. But why the darker beige between the entrances and upper floor windows (which actually looks quite odd)?

  I too am very tired of the stupid little "accents" stucco appliers add to the bulidings. They look so out of touch and usually are covering up some sort of limestone detail. It all looks so fake.

  Hey, if you like Disneyfied landscapes to escape from reality then go to DisneyWorld. But stop with the nonsense already! Windsor bemoans the fact we don't have a lot of visitors anymore. Keep covering up what is left and we won't even have the few that come now.

  Who wants to visit a city that looks exactly like their own? The last time I checked travellers seem to visit cities that offer a different dynamic or view than the one's their own can offer. But I still haven't seen anyone rushing to visit a city in order to see their stucco'ed buildings, ranch houses and strip malls with acres of parking lots.

  I agree with Andrew, our planning department needs to get a pair of stones. As it is we have one of the ugliest cities in Canada, not far removed from Edmonton or some 1960's logging town in central B.C.

  So now I await the people who say that we would look anti-business or anti-development. To that I respond, it hasn't hurt any other city that cherishes the original architects designs. Only our developers have our city officials hand in hand. That, my friends is the only difference.

• I knew I should have bought those stucco stocks a few years ago. I would have cleaned up!

• ah i remember when you took this. i'm amazed they actually left some brick showing. i don't get it either. well, I know it costs less in a way, but still it takes the soul away from the building. especially in the walkerville area you think they would respect the exterior more.

• Yeah I think when we saw Andrew bust out the camera to take this shot one could predict another stucco-rant in the coming week. Speaking of this, whatever happened to the Greatests Hits Stucco Week Special that's been bantered about once or twice? It would be nice giving official credit where credit is due for all the "best" examples of stuccofication in Windsor.

• In this case I wouldn't blame Rosatti- the building's reno was actually designed by Archon Architects who re-stuccoed the old Walker Boys Building on Wyandotte near Lincoln Road.

• I noticed the businesses on Scaledown that are moving in. Tier One Search and Mindbox have their addresses listed currently at 1645 Wyandotte St. E.

  Are all the tenants moving here from a different section of Walkerville? Is the reason they are moving because Rosati is offering commercial space at 8sq.ft, which may be cheaper than they are currently paying now? Are these marginal tenants that move every time someone offers lower rent? What happens to the historic commercial buildings they moved from and will now be vacant? Does it become a stucco war where those new vacant buildings get stucco'd in the future after they become foreclosed by the bank because they are vacant? Or do they become parking lots? In a few years, will this building become vacant because someone offered lower rent in another building in Walkerville because they got a cheaper building from a foreclosure firesale? Are the current tenants gonna grow bored of this gaudy reno and peeling stucco in a few years? It doesn't seem like there is any net benefit to the community from this bag of crap reno job. In fact, it seems like there's a net loss to the community by creating additional supply for commercial space when there isn't a demand,

• If you want to see a puky stucco job. Go check out Lion's Pizza on Wyandotte E & Parent. What an atrocity that has become. I mean seriously, that should include jail time.