(01-12-2016, 04:51 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote:(01-12-2016, 04:26 PM)Owen Wrote: I wonder what 'collapsing' on the inside means... I'm sure anything made of wood is destroyed, but I wonder to what extend stone/concrete/brick has been destroyed by freeze/thaw of water. I would think that if nothing else the facade could easily be saved and build new on the inside like Bauer.
...and Bauer may well have only been able/willing to preserve the façade due to the density they were allowed to place on that lot, going many, many stories above the preserved façade height.
If we were to have a neighbourhood that could not even see the main street or density node having zero opposition to, or even support of increased height/density for a given site, it could even be a first for the region, let alone anywhere else.
But to be fair, the Bauer facade that was preserved was only a single floor - here we've got 4 floors. In addition, there is a lot of planning/urban design support for terracing additional floors above a facade as a way to minimize impact. To one of my earlier points, I doubt you would ever have a tall building here without enormous neighborhood opposition, but 6 or 7 stories is not inconceivable (top one or two being terraced back), with a lot of room to expand the first 4 floors behind the existing building on Shanley.