Credit: Charles LeBlanc

Not my picture, my cell phone’s battery ran down last night (gotta love creative-commons licensing).

This is a followup to:
How not to renovate an “historic” building

It looks like it was slated for demolition all along.  No idea what happened to the Yosemite Sam sign though.

From: http://charlesotherpersonality.blogspot.com/2008/08/digiacinto-building-comes-down-in.html

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There’s been a lot of talk about wheelchair accessible buildings in downtown Fredericton.  Of course, even if you already have a nice ramp, putting a dumpster at the bottom of it kinda defeats the purpose.

This building, at 527 Queen St. is open during construction (but only if you can climb 7 steps up).

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So you have this building that’s fairly cruddy and you want to fix it up a bit, but don’t have a lot of money?  It can be easier than you think.  First, you’ll have to replace some bricks, but since money’s an object, just replace the first floor’s bricks:

Next, you’ll want to make sure that everybody knows your building is historic.  So make sure you put a date on the sign:

Don’t forget to replace the bricks down the side, too.  And if you happen to need to replace some bricks on the upper floors, make sure they don’t match anything already there.  Also, you’ll have to let everyone know that your office space is PRIME, so make sure you get a nice big sign near the front:

Now, you’ll want to have some nice big windows overlooking the beginning of the alley.  Just go ahead and hack some of them in making sure they don’t match any of the other windows on the building:

Now that you’ve got this great building, you’ll have to protect the parking lot to keep the poachers out of it.  So you’ll need a nice big sign on the back:

Of course, you’ll need to make sure that people get the message.  Yosemite Sam is an excellent choice to keep those poachers out:

If they still don’t get the message, make sure you add a Clint Eastwood quote.  Just not a western movie quote, but a Dirty Harry quote:

So how does one get away with this?  Having the same last name as a former mayor helps.

They’re building a convention centre next door so hopefully there will be an “accident” and this “prime” building will get knocked over by a crane.

Update Aug 29th 2008: It’s been torn down!

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So I’m walking down Queen St. and I see this sign that just doesn’t look right.  It looks like they replaced an older sign with a new one that’s smaller.  I just don’t think they did it quite correctly.

As you can see above, it looks like it’s been hung from the roof with skipping rope.  The electrical hack is even worse:

None of that stuff is supposed to be outside exposed like that.  If they used the right cable, it would be a thick, black rubber-coated one.

So all of this is pretty obvious to anyone walking down the street.  So why don’t we have anyone in the right positions actually do anything about it?  Not only is it unsafe, it’s also unsightly.  They didn’t even center the sign.

Update: My brother informs me that L.L.B.O stands for Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario.  We’re not quite under it’s jurisdiction here in Fredericton.

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