chooseviolence

Which way Western man?

Seeing this beautiful old art deco USPS building in Napa boarded up in favor of the strip mall variety a block or so away hurt my soul a bit

Evidently the building was damaged during an earthquake in 2014. The local government deemed it wasn’t worth the $2m to renovate and sold it to a developer where it has sat for years with plans (moving at a snail’s pace) for it to become the lobby of a hotel. The bureaucracy in the US and especially California is insane

That building is worth far more to that city than the renovation costs, just stupid

art deco >
so sad how in areas like this its near impossible to renovate or even preserve historic buildings

Gm amc 🩶
The world is corrupt and can't do better and as long as people are benefitting from it, it can't change.