The presumption [[again) is that the building will magically make money and be of value if only those corrupt morons would get out of the way and let smart people who want to sign online petitions "do something"
More than three years ago some of the CTAA membership ran around saying they wanted to save the building and the push for a demo was quietly shelved. The CTAA brought up the Artspace concept, which by then was well past the time that the David Whitney was off the table as an option.
There have been nothing but cricket chirps since then, despite the fact that the CTAA membership that was pushing for rehab are prominent in the preservation community. If anyone were to have links and connections and be able to find the developers to do it, it should have been these high profile members.
Yet, there has been no movement what so ever.
The DEGC stood by ready to provide what monetary assistance they could given its location.
Still not a peep or plan or drawing.
Interesting that when the rubber meets the road, the local preservation activists who get their names in the paper when they criticize the DEGC and administration seem unable to deliver when the ball is in their court.
Just sayin' - maybe its a lot harder than it looks from the outside.
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