Recent Preservation-Related News Stories

Just a brief post this morning. I'm working on a couple of other things, including a post about additional upcoming conferences and our first ever blog interview, but in the meantime, these articles were in recent editions of the New York Times:

• National Perspectives: A Portland [Maine] Community Forges a New Identity (Keith Schneider, 3/4/07), which describes redevelopment in Portland's downtown Bayside neighborhood, where the population is becoming highly diverse and a wide range of mixed-income housing has been created.
  

• Another Building By a Noted Modernist Comes Under Threat, This Time in Boston (David Hay, 3/7/07) which talks about the potential demolition of Paul Rudolph's 1960 Blue Cross/Blue Shield building at 133 Federal Street in the city's Financial District. The proposed demolition would make way for a new 80-story office tower designed by another noted architect, Renzo Piano. A modern house designed by Rudolph was recently demolished in Westport, Connecticut.
  

• Square Feet: A Waterfront That Has Left Its Wasteland Days Behind (Wendy Knight, 3/7/07) which describes Burlington, Vermont's nearly 20-year efforts to redevelop its formerly industrial and underutilized Lake Champlain waterfront.