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Old Posted Jun 2, 2011, 5:12 PM
sammyg sammyg is offline
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan View Post
^ yep. no doubt there's some nefarious backroom meeting taking place right now between NW and the city to have prentice sit vacant and unmaintained for some prescribed amount of time until an outside party engineer can come in deem that it is "too far gone to save", thus paving the way for NW to destroy an unqualified landmark of 20th century genius while saving face in the PR game. we'll get some BS line about how "we made a good faith effort to try and save this important building, but it's just too old and unsafe to reuse".

"the city that works (underhandedly)"
Is there a procedure to force the landmarks commission to look at it during the interim, whether or not it's going to be demolished soon?

Perhaps during the Art Institute's upcoming Goldberg retrospective?
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