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Originally Posted by rrskylar
Saw the clip on CTV, they interviewed Browaty and he was clearly annoyed with the whole mess and said basically, why in the hell didn't the WPS say something earlier before they even started looking at the old post office as the new police HQ. I would guess most Councillors would like to forget this whole fiasco and I'm sure if there was a do over a new build would be the unanimous choice!
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It could be the WPS just assumed everyone would know the tenants of the office tower could be both an image and security issue. I knew that long before this story broke and am not involved in the project in any form.
On the security side, imagine the a motor cycle gang, or their lawyer perhaps, renting space and sharing a wall with the police unit in charge of monitoring them. There are also lots of chatter about how the exterior of the police hq needed to be hardened against bomb attacks. Was that same hardening applied on the interior shared wall? Did police take into account what units would have a shared wall with the office tower to minimize risks?
In terms of the image issue side, imagine something like a large head shop, a medical marijuana clinic, or a massage parlour setup shop in the office tower.
These really just scratch the surface. The issues over which tenants will be allowed in the tower are going to heavily restrict its possible uses. With all those restrictions it will likely be very difficult to find an approved buyer. The best bet is for the City to look into exiting the leases it holds elsewhere, such as Fort Garry Place, and relocating those offices to the WPS Tower. At least then the City maintains some level of control over the tenants in the tower.