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Heritage advocates won a little breathing space for Blatchford’s Hangar 11 on Monday, convincing councillors to patch the roof and wait to see reuse options before tearing down the Second World War-era structure.

City officials were planning to tear it down before selling the land to the Northern Alberta Institute for Technology, but advocates pointed to examples across the globe where similar open-span structures are repurposed for indoor soccer and other community recreation, public markets, maintenance facilities or even a microbrewery.

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The Blatchford vision approved by city council calls for at least some of the hangars on-site to be preserved and reused for recreation or cultural activities in the neighbourhood.

However, this is the last hangar standing. All other hangars on the Blatchford site — including others involved in the Second World War effort — were taken down with little fanfare.