CITIZENS SEEK PRESERVATION OF STRUCTURE DOWNTOWN; AN OLD INDUSTRIAL BUILDING SHOULD BE A PART OF THE TRANSPORTATION CENTER, INSTEAD OF BEING DEMOLISHED FOR PARKING SPACE, PRESERVATIONISTS ARGUE.(TRIAD/STATE)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: September 19, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: JIM SCHLOSSER Staff Writer

For 40 years, the former plumbing company building on East Washington Street attracted no attention. It was another industrial building among many in the drab southeast corner of downtown.

Now, preservationists have embraced the old Crane Supply Co. building. They are demanding that the city abandon plans to demolish the building because of the planned $14 million city transportation center next door. The transportation center, where Amtrak trains and long-distance and city buses would arrive and depart, would be created in the old ...

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