04-04-2015, 02:00 PM
This topic seems like an interesting application of a thought process that is so prevalent on punaweb - options are presented as false dilemmas with only one solution.
Old town Pahoa could be:
- Historically preserved with like materials and methods
- Character preserved maintaining style but with modern materials & methods
- Modernized as buildings are replaced
- Raized to make way for big box stores
- Replaced with some idealized but completely undefined sustainable future
- etc etc etc
While you have one read on the store fronts James, consider the views of those whose families worked the fields, or built those stores, or had any number of important moments occur therein. History is complex with many experiences and readings - the best preservation efforts captures these many facets.
FWIW - I say keep Old Town Pahoa's style as it is and historically preserve key buildings such as the Akebono. Pahoa already has a big box approach in the Marketplace and Longs and enough open lands to allow for a new sustainable future development whatever that might mean (actual details?)
Old town Pahoa could be:
- Historically preserved with like materials and methods
- Character preserved maintaining style but with modern materials & methods
- Modernized as buildings are replaced
- Raized to make way for big box stores
- Replaced with some idealized but completely undefined sustainable future
- etc etc etc
While you have one read on the store fronts James, consider the views of those whose families worked the fields, or built those stores, or had any number of important moments occur therein. History is complex with many experiences and readings - the best preservation efforts captures these many facets.
FWIW - I say keep Old Town Pahoa's style as it is and historically preserve key buildings such as the Akebono. Pahoa already has a big box approach in the Marketplace and Longs and enough open lands to allow for a new sustainable future development whatever that might mean (actual details?)