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Member of Local Riff Raff Successfully Rouses Agitated Rabble

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The big story lately in Lexington is how a developer want to tear down a block in the center of downtown that contains several favorite nightspots, and replace it with a forty story hotel tower. Local hoodlums have “organized” against this plan, and appear to be having some success:

Political blogger Joe Sonka has set up a Facebook site to critique the tower, share news about the opposition and exchange information. It now has more than 1,400 members.

Preserve Lexington is sending out daily e-mails about the proposal to more than 600 addresses. In the viral world of the Internet, people getting those communiques will forward them to more people, and so the conversation grows.

At the same time, Griffin VanMeter, a founder of a group called Creative Downtown, is collecting oral histories of the block on camera.

Clips of the memories will be shown at “Wake Up Lexington: An Event to Save Our Block,” an event organized by Preserve Lexington that will be held at the Kentucky Theatre on Saturday. You can read all about it on Facebook or at preservelexington.org.

This is not a movement to stop all development on the block. It’s not an in-your-face challenge to the power structure. It’s a thoughtful, if occasionally irreverent, challenge to the proposal before us. They think we can do better.

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