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LTE: What is historical worth of Avon Crest?

Letter writer says it's time to tear down the historic Avon Crest hospital and build new
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A reader responds to our story about a tender for demolition for Avon Crest, the city's first hospital, a 132-year-old historic property across the street from Stratford General Hospital. 

Read the story here: https://www.stratfordtoday.ca/local-news/fighting-on-to-keep-historic-hospital-from-the-wrecking-ball-6477076

To the Editor:

Save Avon Crest is another do-good group with opinions but no plan.

'We want Avon Crest saved and we want you to do it'.

The Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA) should do a costing. They have, and say it is not financially viable to rehabilitate.

Where is the save-it group's plan? HPHA has a plan which makes sense on the ledger. Put the quarter-million saved a year into something medically useful like three or four nurses.

Besides, the building looks like an East German edifice before the wall fell. It's a pile of bricks (reusable).

There isn't a gargoyle or Grecian pillar to be seen.

Its only historical worth besides the idea of it, is to compete with the train repair debacle downtown.

Someone will buy it and build something worthwhile to ease the housing crisis without destroying green space.

Larry Baswick

Stratford