New Life for Seaholm Power Plant?
Site concepts are here ... again
By Sarah Marloff, 4:20PM, Mon. Jun. 4, 2018
The long-empty Seaholm Intake Building and surrounding park space is one step closer to a new lease on life.
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Built in the Fifties as the Seaholm Power Plant’s pump house, the city decommissioned the intake building in the mid-Nineties. It has sat vacant ever since, though transforming the building and surrounding area for parkland and community space has been the city’s long-term goal. Studio Gang’s $450,000 study was conducted over the last year and included site research, review of former planning efforts, more than four dozen community workshops and open houses, and over 1,000 online survey responses. The city said on Monday that early phase work – such as safety requirements and code compliance improvements – could begin soon, but the majority of work will happen over the coming years. Various city commissions and boards are expected to review the proposed plan this summer.
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