If the preservation boardapproved the sign,you can bet the city commission will, too.
This is probably as it should be. The sign isn't too incongruous for the building.
Just hope that making these exceptions doesn't hurt the downtown's designation as an historical district. Hopefully this issue will raise awareness and eh em, get people talking about a Main Street program?
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Anonymous said...
Bush wasn't perfect, but he kept us safe.
July 6, 2010 10:20 AM
That's what makes all this talk such an exercise in idiocy. If he had kept us safe, the attacks of September 11, 2001 would never have happened.
How STUPID do you have to be to say "Bush kept us safe." He was in Florida reading books to kindergarteners while we were being attacked.
My God. It's people like you who want to write and re-write histroy books to cater to your distorted version fo truth.
How could anyone of functional brain mass say Bush kept us safe. In fact, he didn't even react for at least half an hour after the attacks were confirmed.
He just sat there reading cat in the hat while Cheeney was loading up his fricking shot gun to "go out and shoot me some Arbas."
Sheesh. Bush kept us safe? Lety's hope they legalize dope bofre someone finds out who you are. You wold do hard time under current for the stuff you obviously are using.
Tell the families of those 3000 casualties at WTC of 9/11 how safe Bush kept us. Share those thoughts with the survivors of the folks who went down on that plane in Pa that Bush kept them safe.
That is the worst attack in our nation's history under the leadership of Bush and you say BUSH KEPT US SAFE????
Smoke it or drink it; whichever makes you think the way you do.
How will this affect our "historic district?" Why do we have a historic district?
I've heard (but I don't think anyone has seen) that there are special tax abatements, grants, tax credits and other things available in this area. Has anyone ever used any of this? Or is it all just smoke they blow to be able to say we have an historic district?
If that stuff is available you would think someone would have used it. The building owners are business people and certainly would have the smarts to take advantage of those kinds of things.
So what if we lose that designation. We don't seem to have anything to lose. People should do what they want if there is nothing provided in exchange for keeping to the rules.
Those aluminum awnings on the second floor are DEFINITELY historic. NOT !
To Anon at 247pm...
Let's also not forget about the hatred of America his admnistration caused with his unilateral decisions. We wouldn't have to "fight 'em over there so we don't have to fight 'em here" if his worldview was sane and his desire to fatten the wallets of his oil buddies was at a moderate level.
There is no doubt about the historical aspect of Ark City downtown. All you have to do is go into Brick's and look at the great historical photos to know that. I found it fascinating to know that the old Traveler building used a previous city swimming pool as the printing press mechanical pit.
We focus too much on history and not enough on today. The key to keeping downtown Ark City intact doesn't have as much to do with do with signs downtown as it does with economic and industrial development.
It is really sad to see that when many of the businesses downtown change hands, there is not a willing buyer to continue on with the business and make the profits created by an established market.
If you ask the previous business owners on their way out, most will say they were running the businesses hoping for a turnaround that never came.
Is it that Ark Citians don't support the local businesses? Maybe. But if you look at other cities similar in size to Ark City you see that the ones with high employment and high wages support their downtowns better than those without good employment.
I'm not stupid. I know that the economy is the worst it has been since the depression for growing industry.
At the same time, it takes years of recruiting to bring in industry anyway, so the efforts spent now could turn around Ark City when the the economy improves.
I have always thought that this could be something that the paper could help move forward though its capability of jawboning and promotion.
The city commission, the college, the chamber and the economic folks could put a full court pressure on this for the next few years and improve Ark City immensely, but it would take years of cooperative hard work.
Or... ,not. I know how sometimes lazy sloganeering is substituted for hard work.
I could suggest one:
"Ark City: It's History!"
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