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City Hall: Changes are coming 2009-05-05 - 116 Campbellsville ST, Columbia, KY - Photo by CM with architect drawing. MAYOR PAT BELL'S ADMINISTRATON IS LEAVING a legacy to the city of Columbia of a very different looking City Hall. In the top center is the building as it looks today. The bottom panel is an architect's drawing of what the building will look like when finished, projected to be sometime around the first of January next year. The old concrete screen will be gone, and columns and new fenestration will supplant it. The offset at right will be the new Columbia Police Headquarters and will carry the City of Columbia "C with Joe Moore Clocktower" logo. The additionis being built on land where the famed "Better Burgers" Wethington Pool Room once stood. The cost of the contract for the renovation is $1,125,000. Mayor Bell's aim for the building is to have it complement the new Adair Justice Center, a $10 million plus structure diagonally acrosse the Campbellsville/Merchant/Reed Streets intersection. The snowball bush, upper right, should be unaffected by the work, much to the relief of business neighbors. The quarter century old shrub on the north face of the building is revered as a very accurate weather herald. "When flower buds first appear," we've been told by an unnamed son-in-law of Billy and Joyce Rogers who asked to remain anonymous, and that request will be honored, "there will be a cold snap. Then, when the flowers have fully blossomed, summer weather is here for good." On May 5, when this photo was taken the snowball bush was in its full glory. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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