A year later...

Posted by Magda
Sunday will mark a year since the devastating Douglas Street fire, which destroyed the better part of three historic buildings -- the only original buildings left on St. George's square -- and put people out of their homes, businesses out of their offices and closed the street for eight months.

A lot has happened since then. Skyline, the owner of the Gummer building, acquired neighbouring damaged buildings and designed a cohesive office building, incorporating what remains of the old buildings and offering about twice the office space, with commercial on the ground floor. They applied for and received money from the city to help the redevelopment, and construction is well on its way. Now, they're renting out units, and I hear demand is high, though I've yet to talk to the folks at Skyline.

But what's it been like for the people whose livelihoods are on the line? I'm chatting with a bunch of them, and we'll have an anniversary story in tomorrow's paper, and clips of them, speaking in their own voices about what's happened since then, on our website on the weekend.

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[Magda]

Oops, looks like the story will be in Saturday's paper.