12 September 2010

spi club



it looks to be nearing completion, all bright white, stainless steel, and glass facing peachtree --- it actually encompasses three historic buildings, only one of which (the Touch of India building at the southeast corner of twelfth and peachtree) had any integirty as a piece of architectureby the time all this work started --- in fact the building was relatively unaltered, the last intact, early-twentieth-century commercial building remaining on peachtree in midtown, excepting the fine commercial row just south of the margaret mitchell house. which has been landmarked by the city and is, theoretically, there  for the duration ---

neighborhood activists have led us to expect murder and mayhem as soon as the club opens

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