236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed

[Acitta]

Maybe GRR could buy that derelict building on Madison next to the tracks. I am tired of looking at it when I go by on Stirling. It needs to be either demolished or fixed up and used for something.

You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have been living near it on Stirling.

[panamaniac]

You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have been living near it on Stirling.

I could tell you stories of the railcars and tanks full of slimy, fetid green tannery waste leaking all over the ground, but you'd think I was exaggerating.  I don't know what substances are used in the leather tanning process, but I can't see the site as being anything other than heavily contaminated.

[nms]

Maybe GRR could buy that derelict building on Madison next to the tracks. I am tired of looking at it when I go by on Stirling. It needs to be either demolished or fixed up and used for something.

You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

They made it work for the Lang Tannery building downtown...

[cherrypark]

I don't know what it was originally. It has been derelict for a long time, certainly for the 5 years that I have been living near it on Stirling.

I could tell you stories of the railcars and tanks full of slimy, fetid green tannery waste leaking all over the ground, but you'd think I was exaggerating.  I don't know what substances are used in the leather tanning process, but I can't see the site as being anything other than heavily contaminated.

Chromium would be the green in the tanning process likely. Nasty stuff.

[plam]

You mean the old Robson Lang Tannery?   I suspect that site is too toxic to be put to any use involving humans.

They made it work for the Lang Tannery building downtown...

I mean, if you put in millions of dollars, then you can remediate... That's why the US has Superfund.