Comments on: Colborne Street Breakdown: Public Protest, a University, and Academic Activism http://activehistory.ca/2010/03/colborne-street-breakdown-public-protest-a-university-and-academic-activism/ History Matters Sun, 20 May 2012 10:43:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jack http://activehistory.ca/2010/03/colborne-street-breakdown-public-protest-a-university-and-academic-activism/comment-page-1/#comment-4240 jack Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:05:32 +0000 http://activehistory.ca/?p=1033#comment-4240 wrong photo. Those buildings aren't coming down. Well not yet, if they get neglected for over 20 years they could be. They have been eye soars and an embarrassment to Brantford long enough. Most have sat empty and roting away, the boarded up buildings painted to make them look nice, the very little work needed by the Silent Hill crew to make them look like that have been abandoned for 30 years cause most of them where. They are finally being knocked down 1 by one which is great. Our downtown is looking up now. There are a few ideas already for what to build there once they are all gone and the land is cleared up ready for construction. After years and years and years of nothing, people have ideas of what to put up in their place. This has been over 20 years in the making, and if only in those 20 years the people who care really did care and did something during those 20+ years the buildings wouldn't be coming down as they wouldn't have gotten to the horrible shape most of them are in. wrong photo. Those buildings aren’t coming down. Well not yet, if they get neglected for over 20 years they could be.

They have been eye soars and an embarrassment to Brantford long enough.
Most have sat empty and roting away, the boarded up buildings painted to make them look nice, the very little work needed by the Silent Hill crew to make them look like that have been abandoned for 30 years cause most of them where.

They are finally being knocked down 1 by one which is great.
Our downtown is looking up now. There are a few ideas already for what to build there once they are all gone and the land is cleared up ready for construction.
After years and years and years of nothing, people have ideas of what to put up in their place.

This has been over 20 years in the making, and if only in those 20 years the people who care really did care and did something during those 20+ years the buildings wouldn’t be coming down as they wouldn’t have gotten to the horrible shape most of them are in.

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