Dear Sir, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I think HRM by design guru, Andy Filmore gave developer Ben Mac Rae the go ahead to increase the height of his proposed alteration of Heritage in the heart of Halifax to nine stores, in the article quoting him in Thursday’s Herald, by Bruce Erskine.Nine stories or even six stories changes a Heritage Building from authentic history into a Disney like theme park.Two hundred years of our history gone with the snap of a bureaucrat’s fingers. Amazing what you can do if the public is not paying attention. Peter McCurdyHalifax239-263-5048
By Peter McCurdy
This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2008.
Apparently Disney-like theme parks now look like 9 story buildings. I guess there’s a reason I never got to go to Disney World when I was a kid, because it’s nothing more than a 9 story building with a huge parking lot around it. Your comparison of a medium sized building to an amusement park ride is beyond absurd. How does it matter if the building is 3 stories, 6 stories or 9 stories, as long as the historical portion of the building is maintained, restored and enhanced? Are people going to stop visiting Halifax because we have a 9 story building!?Or are we suddenly going to have an influx of kids and parents flocking to Halifax to look at our wacky and crazy 9 story “sky scrapers”.