The heritage committee in this town is out of control. This building has been in this state for two decades because of their nonsense. Old buildings are super inefficient and the city should not stand in the way of replacing them with modern energy efficient ones. I can get behind the odd building here or there that has an exceptional heritage, but that designation should also come with funding to cover the cost of renovating to improve the energy efficiency.
Just up the road at Bank and Gladstone, heritage forced them to keep the brick facade of the old metropolitan bible church, it looks really stupid attached to a modern apartment building.
This is exactly why foreign ownership of residential rental property should be banned in Canada.