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<br /> P L A N N I N G
<br /> • R A C T I C E
<br /> Farley Post Office at Eighth Kennedy Lawson Smith, direc-
<br /> Avenue and 32nd Street into a tor of the National Main Street
<br /> new railroad terminal to re- Center at the National Trust for
<br /> place the much-maligned Penn Historic Preservation. "I think
<br /> Station. people are getting so tired of
<br /> New York Sen.Daniel Patrick having to drive out to the strip
<br /> - Moynihan is the force behind for basic services. We've
<br /> the$315 million proposal($200 reached a point where we're
<br /> +a :,mak = million in public funds and more willing to fight back against
<br /> 101 . $115 million in private invest- the gradual whittling away of a
<br /> --t
<br /> , .. merit),whichwould turn much downtown's economic founda
<br /> "`�` T ' . `. of the 1.4 million square foot tion," she says.
<br /> _ I , � , ."F �' post office into a combination There are indications,Smith
<br /> terminal and shopping mall adds, that the tide is turning.
<br /> — 6, ,, • i along the lines of Union Sta- "There have been enough
<br /> > � 1 ;„-.1,•‘:;./1, tion in Washington, D.C. The communities now which have
<br /> 3� '1.-:4,.'
<br /> �., Pennsylvania Station Redevel- been able to kee theirpost
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<br /> 1 .,.,,, opment Corporation is respon offices downtown and which
<br /> ` 1= ' sible for the renovation of the have publicized these solutions
<br /> facility,a section of which will that other communities know
<br /> still function as the city's only that a relocation isn't inevi-
<br /> table after all,” she says.
<br /> � %�� �„ s y _ One sign of change was the
<br /> �;`+, _ :i.1 --`•,4 June 1997 announcement of
<br /> use at its best:Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual � �ip'--, VI.E ," T.
<br /> .t._ the Postal Service's"good neigh-
<br /> rts(opposite)and the offices of the Ann Arbor Railroad ' P,p 1 �� bor" policy, described in its
<br /> Corporation in Howell, Michigan(above).Howell's - '- pM 11 new community relations
<br /> 6,000-square-foot, Georgian-style post office was built in �',,r47
<br /> 1tl�itl 1' guide'► t ,i� �k, ��� guide.The, says the Postal
<br /> 1937 in the center of the downtown.Below:A Fourth of , .� s f I.
<br /> t .$+> is Service should try to meet its
<br /> July "boom box"parade passes the old post office on a a3
<br /> Main Street in Willimantic, Connecticut. The post office `. r Imo_ .� � �1 ��- facilityneeds first byexpand-
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<br /> SW-
<br /> was made over into a brewpub(right). ) R li`,J iIti' �� ing its present structures, sec
<br /> ( 0 1 i,� ,, t � � . iIr
<br /> -. - T-14' 4•4 1 '-•. �, and by renovating existing
<br /> s -1•- 'ANA Nor 1' _ buildings,and
<br /> third by build-
<br /> -_ � = ing new.
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<br /> ' _ u - March, Post-
<br /> ' - g. � � i master Gen-
<br /> � - , f 1�pl I3 _ eral Marvin
<br /> tall 1111 _
<br /> ,- Runyon an
<br /> "c� � • ,� t , ( 3�--- it:,...— , ,gi .A.;i c.,1,-; A_J.L. .,.":„.11: 0 li ...:74';4:41 ..4 r7 21.rt t ' i "' -"- ** ': ,.,1,,' nounced a
<br /> t•• # F y t:A l y-1 it fi: -uv onm "manage-
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<br /> �!n , '1 L � ✓ •R`r. '' 1. •m>." "H ".'":-.,/ merit ost o -
<br /> ' --- "''y -,), +�� .. _ as. _ �t.6/ ated" post of
<br /> .u• t
<br /> �..•„, °4 t�',�'� „ \i`X ��y t �° qi „t\#r, ,� fice closings.
<br /> v , `` � � �' ; 3r. , ' ''� � The morato-
<br /> rium•"' is signifi-
<br /> i - -,.• .< .;.. r _< .:. r£`ar .= „xY`'..., '$ "t...u;_ �4 gin • • s,,.,,k- Cant,although
<br /> its impact is
<br /> limited al-
<br /> most entirely to rural, low-
<br /> nnecticut, was sold to a lo- go into buildings like this very 24-hour post office. volume facilities. About 75 to
<br /> cal resident, and last year it often,"says new owner David 100 such post offices are closed
<br /> was turned into the Willimantic Wollner. Signs of change each year,says John Sorenson.
<br /> Brewing Company and Main In New York City, an ambi- Around the country, 30 to 40 (The moratorium does not pre-
<br /> Street Cafe. "The best part is tious plan is in the works to relocation battles "are either in vent closings due to floods and
<br /> the look of the place.You don't convert the Beaux Arts James progress or brewing," says other natural disasters.)
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