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City moves ahead with plan to designate Westdale Theatre as a heritage building

 
The city will inspect Westdale Theatre to potentially designate it as a heritage building, and will let the theatre's owners know of this plan in a letter later this month.

The Westdale Theatre was built in 1935 and is an iconic part of Westdale and the McMaster area.

Hamilton heritage officials will inspect the 1935 theatre to see if it's worthy of a heritage designation, likely in 2018. If the designation happens, it will make the theatre – Hamilton's last single-screen theatre and the first "built for sound" – harder to modify or demolish.



Residents are increasingly worried about the fate of the theatre, said Aidan Johnson, Ward 1 councillor. He's made several attempts to meet with the owners to find out their plans, and pushed the city to move ahead with the designation anyway.

"People want the Westdale protected and well used," Johnson said after a planning committee meeting Tuesday, when city councillors voted to move ahead.

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The Westdale Theatre has been an anchor for the neighbourhood for nearly eight decades. (Paul Wilson/ CBC)

Designating the Westdale, he said, has "a huge amount of community support."

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yay. Too bad they don't fucking care about more relevant historical buildings. Like the demolished Circle Theater or that demolished ex-orphanage near downtown.

It's only worth to save a building if you can't build a new high-rise apartment building in its place.
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yay. Too bad they don't fucking care about more relevant historical buildings.

It's only worth to save a building if you can't build a new high-rise apartment building in its place.
Yeeea... Except none of those statements are true.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilt...list-1.2577989

https://www.hamilton.ca/city-plannin...age-properties

... and to boot, they have a grant program to support the Heritage designation:
http://www.investinhamilton. ca/wp-...D-Heritage.pdf

It's not even like the problem you described is actually the problem Hamilton is having: developers want to knock down old buildings and use the lots for Parking, as seen in this example (which is just one of several similar cases).
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/42...r-parking-lot/
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Actually no, most of the buildings in downtown are owned by different owners, which made it a hustle to buy them all out and demolish. Since architecturally one of those buildings doesn't cover much area, you had to buy several of them.

As for the theater, while they couldn't build a high rise apartment building there (okay I'll give you a credit for that one), it could easily be demolished and replaced by a 2-3 floor building. They've done it with several other stores in westdale before. They would just demolish and rebuild them, you wouldn't even know it.
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