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A city board was scheduled to hear the hotel company’s demolition request at a meeting on Wednesday that was subsequently cancelled.
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The hotel company applied last week for a demolition permit for the Odd Fellows building as part of a $1.2 million project to add indoor and outdoor courts on Muhammad Ali Boulevard
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A city inspector this week ordered emergency demolition at a former church on Broadway damaged in a fire last October.
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Preservationists argue the property at Barret Avenue and East Breckinridge Street has historic value that includes landscaping that has warranted protection in other high-profile cases.
The officials claim Metro Government violated Kentucky law when it allowed the developer Upper Paristown Preservation Trust to revise its proposal for the property.
The vote cleared the way for the building's owner, the Omni Hotel, to move forward with its plans to demolish it.
On Thursday night, the council voted to strip the historic landmark designation from the building, which allows its owner, the Omni Hotel, to move forward with tearing it down.
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The Castleman Monument has been the center of controversy because its critics argue that Castleman is closely associated with the Confederacy, slavery and segregation.