With buildings turning to piles of bricks and a streetscape changing before eyes, many Goulburnians have taken to social media to express concern about the fate of the bricks from the Marian College site redevelopment.
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While it may look like rubble to the untrained eye, developer Nicolas Daoud said where possible bricks are being reused to give new life to the development.
Mr Daoud said if the mortar on the bricks is made of lime they were able to be cleaned and re-used, but if it was made of cement they were able to be crushed and used as a base for roads.
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“People will be able to see the new building and have a reference for what it was like [by the bricks],” he said.
Mr Daoud said the process was labor intensive.
“Of course it is not the same but it give something to the past.”
Of the brick waste on site, Mr Daoud said he was confident most of it could be used on site either as base or in the brick work.
It wasn’ just concern expressed on social media, some were grateful for the view it opened up- however temporary it may be.
Resident Vicki Toole posted a picture on the Goulburn Neighborhood Watch Facebook page with a caption about her surprise at the new view.
“ While I was giving way to traffic the other day I noticed the War Memorial,” she wrote.
“It has always been blocked by the buildings at Marion College and once the new buildings are built it will again be out of sight. I think it is a nice view.”
