[Summit] Behemoth

[Michael McGlynn]

Hi Craig,
Let me address your point.

>>If that building is knocked down, it is a great loss to everyone.<<

I never said the building should be knocked down, that was your inference.
I was pointing out that it is in state where nothing will happen without
dollars being spent and that I didn't (and don't) know when and if those
dollars would appear. So, while your points have value, they don't address
my statement and should not be characterized as such.

Look around. The city is full of buildings that are empty and unlikely to
be used in the near term.

To wit:

"The Narragansett Electric Lighting House, or “Dynamo House,” and the Ward
Baking Company Administration Building — two buildings in the Jewelry
District — were included on the Providence Preservation Society’s 2012 list
of the most endangered buildings in Providence. These preservation efforts
follow a series of successful movements to preserve historical buildings in
the district.

'It just sits there without any signs of moving forward,' Hall said."

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http://www.browndailyherald.com/providence-refocuses-preservation-efforts-1.2787752#.UPmYiWfud8E


>>I'm sorry Michael that you look at the beautiful building as "just
another aging behemoth. If that building is knocked down, it is a great
loss to everyone. A good example of what we've already lost in this
neighborhood is the present-day Fain building at the hospital. Before that
stood a majestic Victorian-era school. One thing that continues to bother
me about the United States (compared to much of Europe) is our quick
decisions to pull down old, beautifully constructed buildings because they
need work/updating rather than save them. We replace them with cinder-block
boxes that have zero appeal. In England, for example, a Boots pharmacy
(like CVS) wanted to locate on a certain corner in London that was occupied
by a vacant church. The city agreed they could, in fact, have a pharmacy
there, but they had to use the building. It's a beautiful pharmacy now --
inside a church. Here we give into big business interests (bottom line) too
often and too quickly.
 Besides the Fain building example, there is a CVS in Olneyville that
occupies land that once held a beautiful red-bricked Victorian school
house. CVS should have been required to gut the building (keeping the
shell) but that wouldn't be very capitalist now, would it?
Craig Borges
Fourth Street.<<


-- 
Thank You,
Michael McGlynn
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