"Own a piece of the Rock! Buy a condo in Rockwood Place, located right next to Lake Ontario and Lake Ontario Park. The building was constructed with limestone, and features Palladian Arch windows and spiral staircases."
(Note: I visited a patient in the Asylum during the year 1968.)
The Asylum was built by Kingston Penitentiary inmates to house individuals who were too mentally ill to be locked up in the pen. Canada's history no matter how depressing should be respected. Converting a House of Pain into condos is terribly disrespectful; the hospital should be a museum or a teaching centre devoted to psychiatric, philosophical and psychological studies.
The City of Kingston has already put its stamp of approval on the massive redevelopment of the Provincial Campus, where the Asylum is located. Public open houses are nothing more than a sham. Do you really think that Infrastructure Ontario or federal Crown corporations care about suggestions from the general public? The yellow post it notes are probably thrown in the garbage. Decisions about divesting property and zoning changes were made years ago behind closed doors.
The Village of Portsmouth will have to fight the behemoth organizations that are invading their community. Write letters to your Federal Member of Parliament and MPP. Hire lawyers and consult heritage preservation organizations.
The Don Jail in Toronto was nearly demolished, now it is a filming location for the television program "Suits".
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| Kingston Pen - Not a joke. |
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| Trump Tower Alcatraz - A joke. |
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