Fellow preservationist, Cynthia Van Ness, posted a very interesting article on Buffalo Rising, called “Snappy Answers to Smart Questions”. In it, she attempts to answer some of the claims of a few detractors who view preservationists as “obstructionists”. It has raised some very interesting debate, so I thought I’d continue it here and apply it to the east side.
While I confess that I am an avid preservationist and architecture buff, I sometimes disagree with my local colleages in their opinions of what should be saved. Take the grain elevators, for example. I think that while there are a couple viable adaptive reuse possibilities for them, it’s not realistic that we can or even should save them all. Restore one as a monument to Buffalo’s shipping history and surround it with a park. That’s realistic, in my opinion.
