MOUNT MORIAH MOVES ON aka demolished by Miles Development

[brooklyn-ite]

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082007/met_192817440.shtml

just sad ..... plain sad .....  I bet Moriah got raped on the price Miles gave them too .....

everyone in Brooklyn is gonna have to go soon between this Project and their eminent domain 'guise thru the city.

[thelakelander]

At 110 years old, Mount Moriah was once of Jacksonville's oldest buildings and one of a handful that existed before the Great Fire of 1901.  It would have been great if that old building could have been moved or became a part of the site, similar to the Church of the Holy Trinity, which was preserved during the construction of Toronto's Easton Centre.

The church is located at 10 Trinity Square, next to the west side of the Toronto Eaton Centre. The original Eaton Centre construction plans called for the church to be demolished as well, but the parishioners successfully resisted and forced the mall's design to be changed

It would be nice to see the JEDC treat the community of Brooklyn with a little more respect and actually try to save a few of the neighborhood's significant structures instead of completely white washing it.

[Seraphs]

While redeveloping Brooklyn is important it seems to me someone would have vision to preserve these old structures.  Apprantly, the historic society doesn't deem this as necessary.

[lindab]

To the defense of the historic commission - they are besieged by big money real estate and government entities who want to tear stuff down to get open ground for their projects. A nasty form of in-fill.

It would be great if there was a dedicated fund for moving and restoring historic buildings when there is no other recourse. It could take exist like a mitigation fund paid for by new development.

[vicupstate]

To the defense of the historic commission - they are besieged by big money real estate and government entities who want to tear stuff down to get open ground for their projects. A nasty form of in-fill.

It would be great if there was a dedicated fund for moving and restoring historic buildings when there is no other recourse. It could take exist like a mitigation fund paid for by new development.

I don't understand your 'defense' comment.  Isn't the purpose of the Historic Commission to prevent those same entitites from destroying history? 

When Matt Carlucci was Council president, there was a fund set up just for the purpose you describe.  Eventually the funds were parceled  out and additional funds were not added.  It needs a dedicated revenue source, as you described.