Progress Wins Over History -- Preservation Pleas Fail to Sway Council Vote for Cvs Development of Midtown Church Site
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › August 25, 2010
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A lopsided City Council vote Tuesday means the wrecking ball for a historic church building that has towered over an important Midtown junction for 87 years.
The council voted 10-2 to approve a resolution allowing a planned development that will place a CVS pharmacy where a bedraggled Union Avenue United Methodist Church still stands at the southwest corner of Union and Cooper.See the full content of this document
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Progress Wins Over History -- Preservation Pleas Fail to Sway Council Vote for Cvs Development of Midtown Church Site
Passion filled the issue as well as City Hall chambers, pitting church against church, preservationists against property-rights advocates, developers against urban planners, Midtowners against outsiders.
Eas...See the full content of this document
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