The fate of two historic Augusta buildings is back before city commissionerers.
Tuesday the Public Service Committee will consider the Administrator’s recommendation to demolish the entire courthouse annex and the old synagogue being vacated by the planning department.
There is a need for parking and it’s less expensive to tear down the buildings completely.
The debate now is savings costs or history.
“I love the historic preservation part of it you got to look at where we are how we are growing where the parking is going to come from we’re already congested are we going to have money for a parking deck some things we have to let go of something we have to I would love to keep that there if it wasn’t in that particular location,” says Commissioner Marion Williams a member of the committee.
A 2013 agreement with the Historic Preservation Commission states the city would only demolish the addition at the courthouse annex and save the rest.
The administrator’s office says that increases demolition costs by more than 200 thousand dollars.
