Greenfire Switches on Switching Station

At lunchtime today, my gustatory companion saw me stop dead in my tracks, mid-conversation, and utter a "Holy Guacamole! It's gone!"*

Unlike most such exclamations by me, absence this time made the heart grow fonder, as Greenfire has removed the bile-yellow false front facade from the old General Telephone switching station building.

Although by the time I got back there late afternoonish with my camera, the last traces of the pretender facade were gone, and the original facade hidden away for 40 years (minus windows and cornice) had once again emerged.



A little investigation showed that the building, on the market for quite awhile, seems to have sold around the middle of last month, expanding the ever-expanding portfolio of our cuprous-conflagration-themed downtown development partner. How it fits in the Rogers' Alley plans remains to be seen.

*(Actual language may have differed.)


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