http://www.jsonline.com/business/committee-votes-in-favor-of-lifting-sydney-hihs-historic-designation-pp5tluq-160466665.html
I guess my take on the building (and i have no personal connection to it, only being in Milwaukee for the last 6 years) is that it is simply time for this to happen. I found two points in the article very interesting. A proponent for preservation said that all they wanted was a little more time to find possible options. Yet a few lines later...
"We have let this situation go entirely too long,” Wade said, referring to the long period of deterioration.So I guess my question is "which is it?"
Why hasn't this been a public discussion until now if it's so vital to the public? Why have preservationists not been so proactive until now? If it's really that important, shouldn't we have cared about it when it first became vacant and a possibility for demolition? I realize that a lot of ideas have been put forth and, unfortunately, none have come to fruition, but there has to be a point when you say that it's time to face the facts that nothing is going to happen.
Maybe I'm wrong and there's been a grassroots movement for this whole time searching for donations, investors and developers...trying as hard as possible to save the building...but if so, I haven't seen it and it still hasn't come up with any real plan after all this time.
It's very broken down. It would take a LOT to fix it up..and that would affect who could then afford to use the space...and I simply think it's probably a better and more effective idea to put our efforts into a more feasible project to preserve and restore culture. Not that I know what that is, but pumping million upon millions into more condos probably isn't the way to do it.
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