Interventions to Protect
Goldie McCulloch Southworks Industrial Complex, 1890s
Manufacturer of engines, boilers, water wheels and mill equipment, believed to be the last remaining intact complex of heritage industrial buildings and courtyards of this magnitude in Ontario. Proposed Gaslight District development required partial demolition of listed buildings, construction of two 20-storey residential towers. Two ACO Cambridge OMB appeals noted that “Among other impacts to this distinctive heritage, we are concerned with loss of the north building, the site’s ‘front door’.” Negotiated design changes incorporate more of the historic buildings in the development of a mixed-use community, with a retail street leading to two 20-storey apartment towers on the site.
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