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13 <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 /> .... F- the$315 million proposal($200 reached a point where we're <br /> million in public funds and more willing to fight back against <br /> $115 million in private invest- the gradual whittling away of a <br /> t ment),which would turn much downtown's economic founda- <br /> of the 1.4-million-square-foot tion," she says. <br /> I post office into a combination There are indications,Smith <br /> � ti <br /> �� � �� <br /> — Iterminal and shopping mall adds, that the tide is turning. <br /> along the lines of Union Sta- "There have been enough <br /> tion in Washington, D.C. The communities now which have <br /> Pennsylvania Station Redevel- been able to keep their post <br /> opment Corporation is respon- offices downtown and which <br /> 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 /> One sign of change was the <br /> Ana '; � y June 1997 announcement of <br /> euse at its best:Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual ` '`Tgo; t,." l i the Postal Service's"good neigh- <br /> Arts(opposite)and the offices of the Ann Arbor Railroad ! . ' bor" policy, described in its <br /> Corporation in Howell,Michigan(above).Howell's �� <br /> rp g l 1 � �� t „,"746;*‘` " � l new community relations <br /> 6,000-square-foot, Georgian-style post office was built in !` ' g guide.The guide says the Postal <br /> 1937 in the center of the downtown.Below:A Fourth of111 <br /> � Service should tryto meet its <br /> July "boom box"parade passes the old post office on <br /> P' <br /> n,ii I" facility needs first by expand- <br /> Main Street in Willimantic, Connecticut. The post office s= 1 <br /> was made over into a brew pub(right). «-� i ° a� �,�jl '1 ing its present structures, sec- <br /> . . , and by renovating existing <br /> buildings,and <br /> third by build- <br /> = ing new. <br /> �"` T h i s <br /> ( Mar , Post <br /> h <br /> masterchGen <br /> eral Marvin <br /> DIS Runyon an- <br /> t i • pounced a <br /> Imo" �� ('�4 � <br /> .1 ..a moratorium <br /> :� , ^I-,� '' iiiJ),i on "manage- <br /> xr - ',As-. V <br /> ment inti <br /> of- <br /> , 1•40„1.-- .' "l V ' "" ' ated" post of <br /> �N_ ^�' „ ' 7t �1 s q. fice closings. <br /> 1,.. ^"t t � \sl ''*.;N::- ',,'-2-,' <br /> ' 3f-ti ,. The S orato <br /> ; :. riumi sign ' <br /> �-- <br /> r, cant,although <br /> its impact is <br /> limited al- <br /> most entirely to rural, low- <br /> fikonnecticut, 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 4.0 (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.) <br /> F <br />