{"id":11236,"date":"2014-11-09T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11236"},"modified":"2014-11-09T18:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:27:01","slug":"valdostas-penn-station-to-be-torn-down-alfred-willis-vcc-2014-10-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/valdostas-penn-station-to-be-torn-down-alfred-willis-vcc-2014-10-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta’s Penn Station to be torn down –Alfred Willis @ VCC 2014-10-23"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nReceived as a response to\r\n\r\nOutside corporation trumps Valdosta citizens about historical Nichols house? \u2013Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23<\/a>. -jsq\r\n

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\r\nThe City Council’s deliberations on the 23rd had nothing to do with\r\nany construction project, but rather focused on the sale of a parcel\r\n— as\r\n\r\nCouncilman Carroll’s message of the 25th<\/a> accurately\r\nconveys. The Council’s vote was historic because it signified openly\r\nthe supremacy of certain private property interests (specifically,\r\nthose entailed in selling as a form of enjoyment) over civic\r\ncultural interests, at least within the municipality of Valdosta. In\r\ndoing so it gave Valdosta’s citizens a peek behind a curtain that\r\nhad remained drawn over historic preservation here since 1980. The\r\nconstruction of buildings, the demolition of buildings, the\r\nremodeling or moving of buildings, the maintenance and preservation\r\nof buildings, their sale and their purchase, their adaptive reuse\r\n— all of those processes are historical processes that turn on\r\nthe resolution of conflicts among interests. Thus they all reveal\r\nstructures of power and the machinations of powerful individuals and\r\ngroups. How could they not?\r\n

\r\nThe construction of the Nichols house in\r\nthe early 1950s showed with a degree of clarity that probably no\r\nother Valdosta building of that time did, the identity, values,\r\nattitudes, and mode of operation of Valdosta’s leadership. Its\r\ndemolition will necessarily be no less revealing of what Valdosta\r\nand its leaders today are all about. The significance of the Nichols\r\nhouse therefore continues to build, week to week, from crescendo to\r\ncrescendo toward a climax that I suspect will come only many years\r\nafter its demise. It was in that sense that I referred to the\r\nNichols house,\r\n\r\nwhen I spoke before the Historic Preservation Commission<\/a>, as Valdosta’s Penn Station.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n-Alfred Willis November 6, 2014 at 11:42 am\t\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received as a response to Outside corporation trumps Valdosta citizens about historical Nichols house? \u2013Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23. -jsq The City Council’s deliberations on the 23rd had nothing to do with any construction project, but rather focused on the sale of a parcel — as Councilman Carroll’s message of the 25th accurately conveys. The […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[552,14,15,16,2,19,21,54,134,55],"tags":[7990,7944,8777,817,2331,8704,8705,8706,8701,8699,10,8709,3491,8702,12,7,7945,3056,8017,8711,4,63,6,8726,8743,8727],"class_list":["post-11236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comprehensive-plan","category-economy","category-education","category-environment","category-government","category-history","category-planning","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vsu","category-water","tag-23-october-2014","tag-alfred-willis","tag-comprehensive-plan","tag-construction","tag-demolition","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-history","tag-jim-parker","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nichols-house","tag-old-boys","tag-penn-station","tag-planning","tag-regular-session","tag-tim-carroll","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vsu","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-2Ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}