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Originally Posted by ken0042
Funny, I thought the SAAN store shot was here: Link (Obviously I was wrong.)
Have a look at dowtown Winnipeg. So many old buildings that are condemned; but designated "historical" so they can't be torn down. I really think that is a big part of how Winnipeg's growth stagnated a lot in the 60's-80's. |
I'm not sure historically designated buildings will stagnate your growth unless your economy is strong enough in the first place to causes businesses to want to put up new buildings.
As far as that SAAN building, I think that it looks gorgeous and I would have loved to walk inside. Looks like it was an interesting lower-cost counter-point to the Bay as a downtown multi-floor department store. In today's market, that would make for really cool converted studio space for a business or studio apartments.