The Committee to Save Convention Hall has established a fax bank at Hallwatch.org to make it easier to write to your elected representatives and urge them to intervene with Penn to spare Convention Hall and the Commercial Museum from a looming date with the wrecking ball. Each letter submitted online to the Save Convention Hall fax bank will be faxed directly to Mayor John Street, all members of City Council, Governor Ed Rendell, Congressman Chaka Fattah, State Senators Vince Fumo and Anthony Hardy Williams, and State Representatives James Roebuck and Speaker of the House John Perzel.
http://www.hallwatch.org/faxbank/conventionhall/ Calling or writing to elected officials individually is also strongly encouraged, but the fax bank provides another channel of communications and makes it possible to reach out to many at once. Widespread public involvement is critical and the clock is ticking even through the busy holiday season. All we know for sure is that Penn intends to commence exterior demolition (and resume it in the case of the Commercial Museum) as soon as asbestos removal has been completed. Penn, home to one of the nation's preeminent design and architecture schools, seems to lack the vision and creativity to adaptively reuse these buildings and fails to respect Philadelphia's more than 300 years of history, as embodied in the rich diversity of our built environment. Penn has a civic duty to step back and plan anew, this time in substantive, open collaboration with the citizens of Philadelphia. Please join with us in standing up for Philadelphia's history as writ large in our Convention Hall and Commercial Museum at the former Philadelphia Civic Center. Jay "Jayfar" Farrell Chairman Committee to Save Convention Hall http://PhilaDeco.com -- PhilaDeco.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
