Maple Leaf Gardens to a Grocery Store

An image depicting the absolute gutting of the hallowed grounds of Maple Leaf Gardens.

A place in which the Toronto Maple Leafs won multiple Stanley Cups is a place where you can work out in a campus gym and buy some sourdough from Loblaws'.

The reconstruction of Maple Leaf Gardens into the Mattamy Athletic Centre represents the failed attempt to commemorate a legendary Toronto landmark. While bastardizing the legacy through the commercial use of these sacred grounds as a grocery store.

Button.com refers to the reconstruction of Maple Leaf Gardens as "Remodernization". Urban society and developers put a higher value towards modernizing older buildings rather than honouring the foundations of the city. I do not believe we should idealize the defilement of what should be known as a historical landmark.

http://www.buttcon.com/projects/maple-leaf-gardens-remodernization/

Maple Leaf Gardens Remodernization - Buttcon Limited Owner: Loblaw Properties Ltd./Ryerson University Consultant: Turner Fleischer Architects Location: Toronto, Ontario Delivery Method: Construction Management Value: $ 128.5M One of Buttcon’s most notable projects is the conversion of Canada’s oldest hockey shrine into a major retail flagship: (Lo...

When asked about the remodeling of Maple Leaf Gardens to Mattamy Athletic Centre, with a look of sadness Dwayne Weir former Usher for MLG replied, "It is what it is."