| richlevy |
01-23-2008 07:20 PM |
A Deals a Deal: Unless It's Not
This from todays paper
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Judge: Pa. may defy deal, raze buildings
He said the state historical commission, which won a Convention Center vow to protect, could only advise.
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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.
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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.
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