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Austin Advocates Seek To Save Palm School Building
As tenants prepare building by 2020, community activists are poised for call to action on preserving the site's cultural history.
AUSTIN, TX — Community leaders have scheduled a press conference on Monday to promote a call for action on saving the county-owned Palm School building as its tenants prepare for a move to different quarters.
The building along the 100 block of Interstate 35 frontage road currently houses the county's Health, Human and Veteran Services departments, but will be vacated in 2020 ahead of a move to a new building on Airport Boulevard.
A grassroots community campaign dubbed the "Save Palm School Coalition" has been spawned to preserve the cultural history of Palm School, officials said in a press advisory. Community advocates noted pending action by both the Austin City Council and Travis County Commissioners Court centered on the building's fate are slated in the coming weeks.
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The press conference is scheduled to take place at the site on Monday, May 20, at 10 a.m.
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