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They are going to build some million thousand square feet of hospital across the street from this. It's been known for a while that the hospital is coming. The little brick building slowly rots away. The buildings in the two closer lots gave up trying years and years ago. Behind me is where an active metal working shop stood for nearly 100 years; it closed a couple of years ago. When the hospital is done the developers will come in with their cheque books and their bulldozers and turn the whole mess of it into chain coffee shops and fast food restaurants I'm sure. That's not any worse than vacant lots and empty buildings (though an argument could be made), but the promise of fat wallets has crushed any idea of building something tangible here, something of quality, something of a civil nature.

I'm tired. That poor old building is tired.