Ruth Olsen Peterson is among those involved in the opposition to the sale and demolition of Parkland School. Touch base with her if you can help...maybe you didn't attend Parkland, but one of your parents or siblings or cousins did. I (this is Linda Carlson) have written the Tacoma News Tribune regarding my concerns, which include the following. Use any or all of this info when you write your own letter to the county council or the TNT or Prairie Post or local radio or television stations:
• The only notice PLU gave of its application for a demolition permit did not identify the building, thus avoiding notice of the application by the community
• The building’s landmark designation was removed with little or no notice and no justification
• The community is very, very opposed to this
• The neighborhood already has recently completed apartments adjacent to this structure that stand unoccupied
• This is one of two Parkland landmark structures, and the only one on the highly trafficked Pacific Avenue (PLU’s Harstad Hall is tucked away off quiet Park Avenue)
• This building meets the landmark criteria of having served as a community center starting soon after its construction---I found newspaper reports of it hosting evening speaking events as early as 1913
• To my knowledge, this is the only significant WPA project (the western addition built in the 1930s) in the Parkland area
• Of the four single-building school districts that consolidated to form the Franklin Pierce district in the late 1940s, this is one of two structures still extant, and it is by far the more architecturally significant
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