You got that right Ralph...

It seams to me that the developers "should have" looked into adaptive reuse
of the building. Would the original have been able to accommodate the
necessary square footage? I know these megastores don't like multi-levels
and really want large column-free floors typical to pre-engineered bldgs but
they "should have" been forced to at least consider this given the urban
insertion of this complex. My guess is that they would have walked away from
the site and neighborhood. (I will keep my overt opinions about these stores
to myself.)

Did the developers comply with all other City and State requirements when
they took over the site and designed/built this, such as review and comment
by local boards, city planning, etc?

Why was the nomination rejected?


Eric Hammarberg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Walter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: "Historic factory" now being demolished


This one strikes me as an interesting problem.  There are us Histo Presto
Fags trying to keep the Historic Structure at any cost; the Locals trying to
fight off big business (no matter how many jobs it might create selling
overpriced particleboard furniture to the Upper West Side, at the price of
displacing 2 bodegas and a bunch of drug dealers); and the Gummint trying to
bring in economic growth (to make the locals, who are pissed off about
everything all the time, happy for a change). Who says politics doesn't make
strange bedfellows?

Ralph

PS--Thank God I live in Jersey


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