Tower Auto Site
August 30, 2010 - 9:04am — Anonymous
Does anyone know when the frontage of the former Tower Auto site began to get demolished as of this past weekend of August 28th, 2010? I thought that the developer was trying to save this frontage and also that it is protected under the Ontario Heritage Act Part 4, as stated on heritage Toronto's website under 164 Sterling Road.
Will the rest of the factory structure along with the chimney, excluding the tower itself going to come down too?
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Agreed; the old feeling there
Agreed; the old feeling there had a unique texture to it, however, enviornmental cleanup is key. Great to see it happening and although I suspect it will be a long time before anything gets constructed, (let alone remediated) it sure is encouraging to see some change as opposed to the lack of maintenance on a dilapidated facade.
Tower auto demolition
The demo started sometime last week, and is still happening today. I went by on the weekend to look around and take some photos (may post some later).
At the public meeting hosted by Castlepoint back in January (notes are here), they said they wanted to preserve the walls and the boiler house / chimney, but because of the environmental cleanup that is required, they need to dig down under all of those structures. At the meeting they basically said that the walls will come down (yup, gone now) and that they were uncertain about the boiler/chimney.
Pretty much the entire site has new fencing around it now, so I have a feeling that most of it will come down over the next couple of weeks. I just really, really, hope they can keep the chimney.
I'm a bit saddened that this section of Sterling Rd. has completely changed just in the last couple of months. The Hydro building was demo'd last month (and now site remediation is underway), and with the Tower Auto walls gone, that awesome industrial canyon feeling along there is gone.
But then again....soil cleanup is a good thing too.
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