image for illustration: Convent of Jesus and Mary, Gravelbourg by Archyfb, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Gravelbourg, Sask., looks for a visionary to give historic building a new life, reports CBC.
CBC writes:
… It’s hard to miss the giant building at the entrance to the Town of Gravelbourg, a community of less than 1,000 people located about 150 kilometres southwest of Regina. It dominates the landscape — as does the question of its future…
What the town would really like to see is a housing project, something that would fill what Haug sees as a real need in this community, as it is elsewhere in Canada. ‘Something of this size you’ll never see again. It’s an original,’ she said….
… Giesen-Stefiuk knows just how iconic and important historic buildings can be, and how much they mean to the psyche of a place….
