Garden

According to this, Memorial Hospital pulled down the century old First Baptist Church to put in a garden. I could understand buying the property and pulling it down to expand the hospital and its services and that's what I thought was happening, but to pull down one of the oldest structures in Carbondale at a time when one of the cornerstones of the comprehesive plan under development by the city is to maintain older structures within the city, looks counterproductive to me. And to replace it with a garden, when more open space is the last thing Carbondale needs in downtown.