{"id":201,"date":"2013-07-20T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2014-11-19T02:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:49:51","slug":"we-heart-gore-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"We HEART Gore Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

News broke earlier today that the developers who own most of the buildings on the south side of King St. between James and Hughson are going back on a promise to delay any actions and instead are readying the site for swift demolition.<\/p>\n

There have been a flurry of emails calling on Hamilton councillors and provincial ministers to step in and designate the 19th century buildings. Mixed Media firmly believes that a renewed and prosperous Hamilton will require a mix of heritage, culture, arts and new economic ideas to make this place hum again. This includes adaptive reuse of buildings like the ones threatened in The Gore.<\/p>\n

Here’s some local links to get you caught up on what is happening:<\/p>\n

– Raise the Hammer<\/a><\/p>\n

– Sean Burak’s amazing video interview with developer David Blanchard<\/a><\/p>\n

– Love It A Lot (some great pics of The Gore)
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– The Spec<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s our ever-growing image collection of The Gore. As a city we once felt so proud of this place it appeared on postcards and figured prominently during celebrations. These historical buildings have been a part of Hamilton for a long time – let’s keep it that way!<\/p>\n

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1930s<\/p>\n

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1915<\/p>\n

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1918<\/p>\n

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1945<\/p>\n

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News broke earlier today that the developers who own most of the buildings on the south side of King St. between James and Hughson are going back on a promise to delay any actions and instead are readying the site for swift demolition. There have been a flurry of emails calling on Hamilton councillors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[63,62,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/v2.mixedmediahamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}