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Thursday March 22, 2001

March 22, 2001 by Graeme MacKay
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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday March 22, 2001

Demolish Hamilton City Hall: report

Municipal bureaucrats are recommending Hamilton councillors tear down City Hall and build a $74-million replacement.

At a time taxpayers are faced with a $2-billion bill to replace Hamilton’s crumbling sewer and water system, civil servants have suggested demolishing the 40-year-old downtown municipal building.

But councillors are already balking at the idea that is certain to draw a political firestorm.

“It would be impossible to sell,” said Flamborough Councillor Dave Braden.

“That doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

Said Ward 4’s Sam Merulla: “They are dreaming in technicolour. Any expenditure of that nature is incredibly absurd at this stage of the game. I won’t even entertain the possibility of discussing that issue.”

A draft report on the new city’s accommodation needs shown to a council sub-committee recommends flattening the eight-storey building and erecting a new structure on the same site.

Staff rate the $74-million solution as the best of six options they looked at for accommodating the city’s 1,000-plus office workers.

They say it is the most economical over the long term.

The cheapest option comes in at about $37 million and involves moving staff out to various locations around the new city and continuing to lease space downtown.(The Hamilton Spectator)

 

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: architecture, city hall, Demolition, fan, Hamilton, hamilton city hall, money, spending, waste
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