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Advocates ask city to seek National Register eligibility for Van Weisel; commissioners debate timing
Summary
Historic‑preservation advocates presented research saying the Van Weisel Theatre meets National Register criteria; advocates and some commissioners disagreed over whether to seek state eligibility now or wait for the Purple Ribbon Committee’s report.
Advocates for listing the Van Weisel Theatre on the National Register of Historic Places told the City Commission on March 3 that the building meets federal historic criteria and that listing could open state and federal grant, tax‑credit and FEMA exceptions for the structure.
Lori Muldowney, past president of the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation, told the commission an architectural historian, Christine Madrid French, prepared a nomination package and that a preliminary site information questionnaire (PSIQ) could be submitted to the State Historic Preservation Office this month to request an official eligibility determination. Muldowney said eligibility would not force the city to preserve the…
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