We’ve got another victim to Progress.
The School Board voted Tuesday to move forward with plans to tear down a historic building at Riverview High School, ending a two-year-long effort by local activists to save it.
Tiffany Lankes of the Herald Tribune tells us the sad news about Paul Rudolph’s Riverview.
It was a rare standing-room-only School Board meeting, with the crowd split.
Teachers and students wore Riverview colors and said a plan to convert the old building into a music complex would further cramp an already tight campus. They also expressed concerns that the complex would jeopardize security by allowing more people on campus.
Those who wanted to save the building, designed by famed architect Paul Rudolph, wore green stickers and argued that it is too precious to tear down. Converting it into a music complex could attract top talent to the community and become a resource for students, they said.
In the end, board members said the decision hung on whether the group trying to save the building could come up with enough money for the project.
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