Arcade in Tax Lein Sale!
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Clifford Stramper said: What's on my mind is a magnificant old house at 121 South Paul Laurance Dunbar Street.
This house i...
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Jason Kreider said: Can you please research and/or add content to your website regarding my Great-Grandfather Walter J. ...
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Sue said: Is Memorial Hall still available to rent for special events? If so, who do I contact?
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RIP Roosevelt High
pamela walls said: why couldn`t had used Roosevelt high school for the school of arts it sure is big enough did the bui...
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Arcade in Tax Lein Sale!
pamela walls said: i think the dayton public libary should move into the arcade building
with all the new urban develo...
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I think that The Arcade would make a great site for a new Dayton Public Library.
* Maybe combine the library with a new history museum of some sort (Wright Bros Museum? Dayton Preservation Museum?).
* The area under the dome would make an impressive reading room (do google.com image searches for photos of the Boston Public Library Reading Room and you'll see my vision).
* Integrate history and/or library science graduate programs with UD and WSU.
* Use the attached apartments for visiting scholars or visiting historians taking part in the graduate programs.
Also Consider This:
* The current downtown library is a dump and beyond warranting replacement.
* The land it sits on is PRIME with all the new condos going up around that part of downtown.
* Translation: Dayton will get way better tax revenue from this property than it currently generates.
* OR given the current real estate crises maybe it could officially become the homeless shelter it has always unofficially been.
* Maybe develop it into condos at a later time when the economy turns for the better.
with all the new urban developlement around it that would make a good spot for the libary plus the old building is plain