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Old Posted Mar 6, 2013, 7:05 PM
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Palmetto Compress Warehouse, Columbia, South Carolina

https://www.change.org/petitions/sav...the-demolition

o.k., so this is sort of a shameless plug to get signatures, but beyond that, also a study in industrial architecture and a fight for preservation vs. demolition going on in real time

http://www.wistv.com/story/21448952/...pXdk5rps.gmail

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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -

Packing up. At the Palmetto Compress Warehouse Sunday people were loading moving trucks, wasting little time, after getting notice they have until the 31st to clear out.

The plans are to tear the building down, brick by brick.

"You look at Charleston, they would never knock this building down," said business owner Todd Stuart. "I don't think there would be a debate in Charleston about knocking this building down."

The Vista Guild Merchant's Association, preservationists, local business owners and developers have launched a Facebook effort to save the century-old building used for storing cotton.

It's one of the last associated with African American history in the Vista.

"We're surrounded by successful examples of people coming in and rehabilitating and readapting historic buildings, that's what's so attractive," said Sarah Lewis with the Vista Guild Merchant's Association.

701 Whaley developer Richard Burts was told his project couldn't be done. He believes the warehouse can be renovated, claiming sloped floors considered a challenge by some, may be an opportunity for the right developer.

"You don't look at building the same way, historic building the same way you look at a building coming out of the ground," said Burts. "So, you get the creative team together, you figure out what you have, what your limitations are and then you fit the plan around the building."
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