richlevy • Jan 23, 2008 8:20 pm
This from todays paper
If it was a truly private owner, I wouldn't care as much. But we are spending public money to destroy historic buildings to expand a relatively ugly Convention Center that has failed to live up to any of it's promises other than as a pork barrel.
[SIZE=3]Judge: Pa. may defy deal, raze buildings[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]He said the state historical commission, which won a Convention Center vow to protect, could only advise.[/SIZE]
Gallery added that the decision could have serious implications for historic preservation in Pennsylvania. Quigley's ruling effectively reduces the state's top preservation agency, the Historical and Museum Commission, to a toothless advisory body.So after a deal was cut, and the Commission gave up a number of other less important buildings to save these ones, a judge steps in and undercuts them.
If it was a truly private owner, I wouldn't care as much. But we are spending public money to destroy historic buildings to expand a relatively ugly Convention Center that has failed to live up to any of it's promises other than as a pork barrel.