During the course of a meandering Saturday posting here at NAC, we referred to an intriguing proposal made by mayoral candidate Doug England (D), who last week floated the idea of transforming the architecturally acclaimed fire house at 4th and East Spring into a new city hall: See: Scooby Doo, where are Dork & Mindy?
Now at-large city council candidate John Gonder (D) weighs in with the thoughtful opinion that (a) England’s idea is a good one, and (b) if it comes to fruition, a new firehouse properly located in the west end of New Albany might be built on the site of the much vilified New Albany DVD smut vendor, which presumably would then be forced to rent a Gregory-owned slumlord property.
Read candidate Gonder’s thoughts here: England's City Hall Idea.
These city hall relocation considerations were not mentioned at Monday’s city council meeting.
Still, we’re reasonably sure that 1st district councilman Dan Coffey, who previously alleged that he could have designed a better building than the current 4th & Spring fire house while standing on his head writing legal documents in a stormwater drainage basin, would be amenable to better fire protection for the citizens of his fiefdom.
3rd district councilman Steve Price, whose council district would be gaining a city hall, was busy installing a new deadbolt on grandma’s cookie jar and could not be reached for comment. A source tells NAC that our own “36% Dilution” has forgotten the password to blogger.com (hint: think "pandora's box") and cannot use his own blog site to release thoughts on these and other proposals … which of course is just as well.
Readers, what do you think?
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2 comments:
Wait, whats that familiar yet antiquated smell I smell. *sniff sniff* By God, I think it is the nearly forgetten scent of true progressive thinking!
Things are on a track for continuous improvement! I hope this does not derail!
Why try to adapt a previously designed fire house into a city hall while designing a new fire house? Couldn't our
design dollar" go further if we focused on designing and building an appropriate (environmentally progressive, efficient, and cost-effective) new city hall as opposed to taking on two projects? And when I say "new" city hall my preference would be for adaptive reuse of a historic building, not a brand new building.
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