A meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the Savannah the Civic Center Ballroom will include discussion of historic preservation. The Historic Savannah Foundation is encouraging its members to “attend and advocate for our historic downtown and the outlying residential historic neighborhoods.”
In particular, the HSF is concerned about:
1. Incompatible large scale development […]

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With Savannah’s large inventory of fine historic buildings it’s easy to forget just how many have been sacrificed to make way for civic “improvements” such as interstate flyovers and parking garages.
Remembering what’s been lost is instructive today as the threat to city’s sense of place is perhaps greater now than at any time since […]

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