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Activity dwindled as tenants fled to suburban industrial parks that sprung up along interstate highways, turning the manufacturing district into a memory and the buildings into targets for redevelopment and preservationists.
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Dana Crawford, a developer and preservationist who single-handedly did more than anyone to save Denver’s historic architecture, died Thursday night at age 93.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
And over time, as these preservationists noted, old-time Aurorans became interested in their downtown again.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
In 2014, Northwestern University demolished Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago despite pleas from preservationists.
—Michael Allen, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Dana Crawford, a developer and preservationist who single-handedly did more than anyone to save Denver’s historic architecture, died Thursday night at age 93.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
And over time, as these preservationists noted, old-time Aurorans became interested in their downtown again.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
In 2014, Northwestern University demolished Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago despite pleas from preservationists.
—Michael Allen, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Preservationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preservationist. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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