Does anyone else find this strange? I don’t know the specifics of the buildings but while they don’t seem especially significant they do seem to contribute to the district.
I guess the CIC didn’t care. Somehow they turned something that could have been controversial into a party. Everyone love a party right?
And they didn’t even demolish it, they just ripped a hole through it. Now it just looks blighted.
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07/27/2008 at 9:52 am
People do find demolitions exciting, so a party doesn’t entirely seem like a stretch. The one demolition I’ve witnessed was a large-scale, explosive affair but, judging from the second photo, this could not have been incredibly dramatic. In fact, does punching a hole in a wall could as a demolition at all? The building’s still there; now it’s just, as you pointed out, blighted. It seems like an exercise in futility to me.
07/27/2008 at 10:04 am
I like destruction as much as the next man, but it seems interesting that the Community Investment Corporation made this into a community event. I guess it is a good tactic to get buy in.
07/27/2008 at 5:07 pm
There’s a rendering on Soapbix of the future of this site. It looks a bit like the Banks proposal, but smaller and with a slightly higher concentration of detail.
07/28/2008 at 8:50 pm
Let’s celebrate our town by abusing it. Wonderful! Looks like they should have torn down the buildings across the street first, or wherever those buildings with the maroon awnings are located.
Let’s put up a bright, modern, and clean building that shows our town has money. What are the ridiculous open rectangles on the top left of the proposed building?
07/29/2008 at 12:43 pm
It is my understanding that the interiors of the buildings were in severe disrepair and also contained significant amounts of asbestos. I think the party had a lot to do with perception change, St. Bernard isn’t exactly the most forward moving community…
07/30/2008 at 9:57 am
Christine, I haven’t been there for a few years, but that place with the awning was a pretty good place for Chinese food.