The Stateman reports
the city's hitting the reboot button on the Seaholm intake facility redesign. Apparently the concern was that the selected design doesn't "respect the architectural integrity of this iconic building".
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Under city code, that historic designation means that any redevelopment should involve “minimal changes to character defining features and avoid removal or destruction of important features and spaces,” McGee wrote. “They also require that changes be undertaken in a manner that is reversible.”
Among the finalists that residents were invited to vote on last fall, however, one proposal called for a cylindrical stairway in the middle of the building, a roof garden and a boat dock for canoes or paddleboards. The other rendering kept more of the building’s original look, but added a mural wall facing the lake.
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No explanation as to why city officials only remembered that the building was on the National Register of Historic Places after the fact...