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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

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

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