I grew up in Watervliet, NY and lived two blocks from the
historic Saint Patrick’s Church. You could see the church from our second floor
windows. The building was huge and the inside beautiful.
My parents were married in the church, I made my first
communion and we went to many midnight masses on Christmas Eve. I’d heard the
rumors from family and friends that they planned knock down the church and put
up a Price Chopper Supermarket.
Now I’m all for using unused space. I’m one who believes if
a space is empty another business should use that space instead of building a
new place. I just have a hard time tearing down a historic site. It broke my
heart to see the pictures on friend’s facebook pages.
Here are the before and after.
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