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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:46:43 +0530
Many Asian American leaders and historical experts nationwide are
beginning to raise concerns over the possible demolition of famed
architect Minoru Yamasaki’s 17,000-square-foot single story
studio/office facility in the commercial district of Troy, Michigan.
Yamasaki was the architect who designed the World Trade Center, as well
as other famous buildings such as the Century Plaza Hotel in Los
Angeles, the Eastern Airlines Terminal in Boston and Japan’s Kyoto Temple.
The city employees’ retirement fund, who bought the property four years
ago for $3.3 million, has reportedly sold the prized real estate to
Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc., of San Clemente, Calif., and to the
local Marriott Hotel for $4.35 million.
City officials have put the closing of the sale on the fast track with
one real estate representative predicting it “should be completed in a
matter of days.”
The local Troy Heritage Foundation and its director, Katherine Lee, had
hoped to transform the studio that Yamasaki had designed himself into a
museum called the Center for Peace and Good American Citizenship.
http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=856fb865d8d064fe9aeca69e2c2519a5