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Ch-Ch-Change: Lessons from View Towers
Brian McIsaac commented on Gene Miller's comment in Commentary
The original plan for View Towers was an 18 story and an 11 story tower with a swimming pool between them. You can see the extra concrete reinforcement for the pool from down in the car park. The mostly Batchelor suites were intended to house the proletariat workers for the ever expanding Social Credit government under WAC Bennet. Due to a collapse early in the buildings construction and ongoing quarrels with City Hall the second tower and pool were cancelled. A 19th floor was tacked on the first tower, it has 7 foot ceilings where the other floors are 8 feet. There are 4 elevator shafts but only 3 elevators were installed. The towers exterior was bare unpainted concrete until the mid 1990s. After Mr Mulek passed on his daughter took the reigns of Westsea Construction and immediately fired the management staff at View Towers. Since that time ongoing repairs and upgrades have been continuous. The concrete and rebar has been inspected and repaired in a years long process. New thermopane windows have been installed on the entirety of the buildings exterior. View Towers is probably the most security conscious building in Victoria. A non-tenant cannot enter the building after 7pm without showing ID to a security guard. A large proportion of the tenants are international students. The building is clean, quiet and safe. You may want to do a bit of homework before you write snarky columns about people's homes and wish that an old had committed suicide simply because you don't like a building they developed a half century ago. 500 people call View Towers "Home". Nobody should have to jump off a balcony over that. How classy of you.