Here’s a very, very simple question for all the hand-wringers who seem to regard the decrepit, old Pheil Hotel and Theater building as an historic edifice looming over the city as if the Hanging Gardens of Babylon had been transplanted to Central Avenue.
If you succeed in preventing the owners from selling the property in order for the structures to be razed, the chances are quite good then the so-called Cheese Grater Building will simply continue to sit empty, home only to squatters and assorted vermin. What then? Are you in the business of “preserving” historic mold?
Or put another way, I’m starting to push 70, but that hardly means I qualify for historic preservation status. Although, truth be told, even I’m amazed my liver has held out this long.