Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

[ac3r]

I suppose it's us paying the water bill through taxes. I know when I was touring the building, I asked why these taps were not fixed. They stated that the Region of Waterloo didn't want to invest in repairs since it was not being used for anything but testing, but...surely the cost of water is more than the cost to repair a sink?

As for other things being removed, it was a lot of the old wooden benches and other equipment that was left over after they closed the place. I don't know why they would have removed them since the testing centre wasn't using much of the building besides the area near the tent, two or three offices and a staff break room. It appeared that removed everything except the old booths in the restaurant as well.

For the leaky roof, I guess they just deemed it was not worth the repair. It didn't appear to be a bad leak or anything, just drops coming in certain areas on rainy days.

I'm surprised they gutted it so fast because as you said, they didn't seem to vote on what would be done with the property . They just closed it, removed at much as they could and then had plans to keep it closed until the pandemic worsened. They do in periodic maintenance on the air system since it's controlling the air that is pumped into the tent, but minor fixes like taps and a leaky roof and foundation were deemed not worth the cost.