What's going to happen to Market Street as it runs through Russell? I took some pictures last year of west Market as part of our historic preservation efforts. Now as I go down Market Street I noticed that several of the buildings have been torn down. This bothers me. Older urban neighborhoods like Russell need their older building.
These building are very flexible and can/could have a variety of uses. Besides, it's usually cheaper to rehab one of these older buildings than to build new ones. It's already hard enough to convince someone to come and start a business in Russell. It's going to be even harder to convince a business to build a brand new structure that fits in with the urban character of Russell that will most likely cost several million dollars. Besides these older buildings give Russell it's character.
Here are a couple of photos of some of those older buildings on Market that still stand.
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