Candlelight vigil tonight to save part of Grove history
St. Stephen's Church on McFarlane Road wants to knock down a 1912 building and put in a pre-school as part of their renovation project. They have the idea of replicating a tiny piece of the façade and calling it historical preservation.There is a candlelight vigil tonight after sunset, organized by Melissa Meyer. Many people will be out to try and stop the demolition. St. Stephen's defense is that they are going green and building something better.
This is a rendering of the future project.
Part of the on-going St. Stephen's saga
posted by Tom Falco at 5:56 PM
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Too late: They already showed the ground breaking on TV tonight on the 6:00 o'clock news.
First a cabaret and now this. St. Stephen's is turning mad.
Pretty audacious when a church thinks they can do what they want with their own property. Next thing you know they'll adopt some theological tenet that doesn't have unanimous support of the entire community.
"The wreckers haven't started yet and until they do, it can be saved." Jacqueline Kennedy
quoted during her 1962 successful effort to save Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.
What vigil went over there few moments ago and everything is locked up.
It wouldn't be the Grove if another great project brings out the crazy anti-everythings.
Sorry, this is the Grove filled with involved bright people, unlike many other areas in Miami.
St. Stephens has been a part of Grove history for decades...if they are making an informed, green decision, why rag on them?? I find it hard to believe that in all of the Grove the one business you call out is a church that's trying to improve itself...
Mediation meeting between Miami's leading historians and preservationists and officials from Stephen's is set for Tuesday. This should be interesting.
I still don't get the impulse to tell people what they can do or not do with their own property. Are the protesters willing to pony up the extra $$ that they're costing the church and its members? This is, after all, a retroactive tax on them.
It sure doesn't happen often, but I agree with SWLIP on this one,
The church belongs to the public.
This is the churches fault for not
doing their homework.
Blatant incompetence on behalf of the church.
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