Comment 90045

By z jones (registered) | Posted July 08, 2013 at 22:06:38 in reply to Comment 90043

Been in town for years. Seen lots of "blights" and "sketchy" buildings bought, restored, renovated into beautiful successful places by people who care about their community. Also seen lots of buildings bought by speculators, demolished with promises of new developments, years later still gravel. There's a bylaw that says you can't knock down a building and turn it into a parking lot. It was passed because of David Blanchard knocking down a building and turning it into a parking lot. That's the white knight your betting on, to knock down these buildings and not leave them as flat gravel. Even though he has no plan, no financing, no approvals, no permits, no nothing. See, people who've been in town for awhile have learned not to trust speculators when they say they'll knock down a building and build "a grocery store or a target or... whatever, I don't know." We've learned not to trust speculators when they say a building has "had it" and is "shot" because they also said that about all the buildings that people fought to save and we're proud of now.

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