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Article: Historic Superblock buildings in Baltimore at risk, preservationists say
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2009
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In 2004, when New York-based developer Lloyd Goldman knocked down
a Civil War-era building in Jersey City, N.J., to make way for a
condo tower that has yet to materialize, the city's historic
preservation community was suddenly inflamed.
Now, some of the same preservationists are worried that Goldman
may do something similar in Baltimore.
John Gomez, founder and president of the Jersey City Landmarks
Conservancy, this month sent a letter to the director of the
Maryland Historical Trust, J. Rodney Little, warning him about his
experience with Goldman and his company, BLDG Management.
"In my nearly two decades of preservation practice, I had never
witnessed such utter lack of regard for ...