Chuck Hards wrote:
I think a golden opportunity for a lasting monument and resource was lost when a new planetarium wasn't built next to the new downtown library. I still have the vision in my mind's eye.
I had two problems with the library site. One was that it was not considered for the site until long after the plans of the rest of the plaza had been finalized. That meant just sort of sticking it in where they could. Just didn't look very good and the distance from the street where the school busses would have stopped to where the front door was to be was on the order of a hundred meters or so of uncovered walkway. My other problem was parking. Believe it or not the biggest complaint HP goers had at the State street location was lack of parking. At least at the new facility they have parking. But I still stand by my original thought that it should have gone up to the U. Patrick