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Not sure I understand your reasoning about not saving the Lever Soap Building because its former occupants created pollution. If a building is worth saving it's for its architectural and/or heritage properties. (That said, I really don't see the Lever Building as being worth saving but maybe others do and can convince me. (They will never convince CF or Metrolinx!)There's a new Change-dot-org petition being circulated by Architectural Conservancy Ontario (Toronto Branch) to retain the old Lever Soap-Plant building.
Like the "Save the Foundry" folks on the other side of the Don, I do NOT support this argument when the previous use was one that created a lot of environmental contamination.
An area like "The Distillery" can't be compared to what you will find at a Foundry or a Chemical Plant like the Lever building, the contamination is far worse from those previous uses. It is fine to tear it down old industrial buildings and cart away the soil underneath for a new neighbourhood.