Town Manager Derek Brindisi’s quote (“Out cold: One of Memorial Hall’s boilers has failed”) says it all: ““Maybe the building gets torn down and replaced with a more 21st century version.”
Now with the failure of one of the boilers and continued leaks into the building, take it down, save the front façade, and build a new, wonderful concert facility that will bring in a much better music scene and give the Plymouth Philharmonic a facility they really deserve. Whether there is a public campaign to raise funds, with the help of the town, or sell it to a nonprofit group and have them raise the funds needed, it should happen now, not later.
The town is just throwing good money after bad, as this board does on many projects…let’s wait until it falls down. And a growing Plymouth deserves a venue that is so much better, if not close to world class, including building a parking structure attached. Do it now Plymouth or fall into the realms of just another town.
– Steven Eichberg