There are a tens of thousands of Polaris buildings all around this country. Some of them standing empty and decrepid for longer than Alaska's been part of the United States. These building will continue to stand like venerated tombstones over the land that surrounds them reminding everyone of the history that took place. It is a luxury in this time and place, in America, to still see some of these places like the Polaris building, or an old dairy barn or the remains of a sugar mill or shopping mall  or whatever it is that's out there still rotting away that once held life but now does not. 
Nature will take its course and pull these building down or force a decision on people who have control over such things well before before a community would ever willing vote in favor of a bond or other means to pay for their removal. 
The bigger the structure the more attached a community becomes to them and the hopes and ideas they represent which makes the process of tearing these buildings....