"It's like this monster right in the middle of all this progress that's going on, so it definitely needs to be eliminated," said Karla Henderson, a group executive of planning for Mayor Dave Bing. "We have this one symbol that sits on the river that thousands of people see a day. [[Demolishing it) sends the sign there is a change, there's progress and hope. The mayor is clear he wants people to feel change."
There's a part of me that simply wishes that city officials would come up with a different statement. They've used the exact same verbiage to rationalize every demolition since the Old City Hall came down in 1961.