MDK10 wrote:

> Does anyone know of some innovative, sensitive grocery store developments in a
> historic urban/residential area?  There are plans to place a 66,000 sf
> suburban box of a grocery store on our historic St. Charles Avenue here in New
> Orleans.

 Mary,

Why are there so many stories like this? Just prior to my problems with my car,
pants and the helicopter last week I was given a similar developers vs.
preservationists scenario for a town hall in CT. My receiving the story had very
little to do with the work-at-hand, I simply mentioned involvement in historic
preservation and next thing I know I'm getting this convoluted political scenario
of small town politics explained to me. I was happy for it, I like stories, but I
was also perplexed. All I can do is nod my head in a show of commisseration and
repeat that this is happening everywhere in America. It appears to me that there
are isolated pockets of concerned citizens who want to preserve their built
environment but that they are unable to connect with each other in order to share
battle stories. Is this sharing occuring somewhere and I am missing it? Or is
there a need waiting to be satisfied here?
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