A Deals a Deal: Unless It's Not

[richlevy]

This from todays paper

Judge: Pa. may defy deal, raze buildings

He said the state historical commission, which won a Convention Center vow to protect, could only advise.

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.