Steve Mensing, Editor
♦ As expected, the Senate budget plan did not include historic preservation tax credits. Laura Leslie reported yesterday on WRAL .com that the Senate budget: “Does not include the historic preservation tax credit, and funds the film grant program at its current $10 million per year.”
Governor Pat McCrory and Susan Kluttz’s dizzying municipal junkets across the state for their cronies to promote the historic preservation tax credits failed to move the N.C. Senate. Our Senators wisely sided with business owners and taxpayers across the state.
Perhaps now cities throughout North Carolina will concentrate on constructing more modern Downtowns and get on with the required business of removing aging and decrepit buildings of little or no real historic significance from the landscape. Please note that all so-called historic buildings started out as modern. Age and time does catch up.
Perhaps during future “Friday Night Outs” the city can create festive occasions out of imploding those deadbeat hulks littering Salisbury’s South Main Badlands. What a sight it would be to watch tons of earth and brick lifting in a dark cloud as the Empire Hotel shuddered, then toppled onto South Main in a well-planned demolition. I can hear the crowds cheering.
WRAL Reports Senate Leaders Tout Small Budget Plan:
http://www.wral.com/senate-leaders-tout-smaller-budget-plan/14712813/
