Update-Kingston Penitentiary redevelopment plans.

Workshops Dome.

  The Main Rotunda is being preserved, the Workshops Dome and buildings are not.
Parks Canada
South Workshop Recognized Federal Heritage Building - Constructed from 1842-1849.
Description of Historic Place
"The South Workshop, also known as Building C-1-C-6, at Kingston Penitentiary is an impressive 19th century, industrial building with a temple facade and a Greek cross plan. This solid, stone building is made up of four large wings radiating from a central rotunda."

The Main Dome is building B-01, while the South Workshop buildings are buildings C-01 to C-05.(From: (PDF) Opportunities and Constraints Report-City of Kingston-Page 9/140.)

"Heritage re-use is expensive and risky, difficult to break even (unless subsidized.)" (From: City of Kingston-Projects-Planning-Kingston Penitentiary June 2017-Page 23/59). The Pen is one of the most historic, famous landmarks in the world--- Canada's Eiffel Tower and Taj Mahal. Yet plans are already being made to level buildings and remove walls to permit the construction of housing, new pathways and roads. Will Kingston be a tourism mecca, when the Pen, Prison for Women, Stone Gables, Isabel McNeill House, Collins Bay Institution and Rockwood Asylum are gone? Collins Bay Institution is known as "Disneyland North". Rockwood is on a list of 135 "ghost buildings" that Infrastructure Ontario is either selling or demolishing.  The Big House, Prison for Women, Isabel McNeill House and Stone Gables were divested by Corrections Canada.

The Government of Canada wanted the property surrounding the Pen to remain public:
     "After the environmental site assessment and risk assessment were completed,clean-up options were presented to CSC. The option chosen was to excavate and replace the impacted soil, so that the land would be revitalized and restored to green space. The re mediated area will no longer be leased for boat slips or long term boat storage, so the refreshed space will be open for the public to enjoy!"

All the land within the red lines will remain public, according to the document "Kingston Penitentiary Harbour property-Correctional Service of Canada" 2015.

The purple coloured area will be the focus of most of the re purposing and residential and commercial development. That is where Buildings C-1 to C-6 are located.

The Central Rotunda or Main Dome of the Pen.