The heritage committee in this town is out of control. This building has been in this state for two decades because of their nonsense. Old buildings are super inefficient and the city should not stand in the way of replacing them with modern energy efficient ones. I can get behind the odd building here or there that has an exceptional heritage, but that designation should also come with funding to cover the cost of renovating to improve the energy efficiency.
Just up the road at Bank and Gladstone, heritage forced them to keep the brick facade of the old metropolitan bible church, it looks really stupid attached to a modern apartment building.
I am so excited for the release date, but I also really hope it’s soon. I would be fine with an EA release that has the caveat of bug and balance changes to come. This was part of what made the original game so great, we the players got to experience the building up to what it is today (anyone else remember biter science?).