Stamford Advocate: "A federal judge has halted the sale of the historic downtown post office to a New York developer. U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant granted a temporary restraining order last week to the National Post Office Collaborate, the Center for Art and Mindfulness and a former post office box holder who claims the U.S. Postal Service failed to follow proper procedure in closing the facility and … Read More
Santa Monica considers preservation covenant on historic (former) post office
The historic Santa Monica post office was shut down on June 29, and now the Postal Service is preparing to sell the building. City officials are looking for ways to protect the building by creating a “preservation covenant” that would, according to City staff, “prohibit the purchaser of the property, as well as all future owners of the property, from undertaking any … Read More
Historic St. Paul post office turns into apartment building
According to the Twin Cities Pioneer, "The former U.S. Post Office on Kellogg Boulevard in downtown St. Paul was sold Friday to a local development group, which plans to turn the Art Deco building into market-rate apartments." The building went for $5.25 million. The Postal Service relocated retail services from the downtown office to a new, smaller location a few … Read More
Historic Westport post office reopening as restaurant, postal services not on the menu
The historic post office in Westport, Connecticut, was built in 1936 under the New Deal as a way to put people to work and to promote confidence in the federal government. Now the Postal Service has a different agenda — putting people out of work and undermining confidence in the government. One way to do that is sell off … Read More
Historic Carnegie post office repurposed as cafe
The historic post office in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, got repurposed this week as the Carnegie Coffee Company. The post office closed in 2008, and retail services were relocated to smaller quarters in the back of a Family Dollar store. At that time, postal officials cited "competition from private mail firms, a need to keep costs in line with services and a desire … Read More
A Bronx Cheer for the Postal Service: The Fire Sale of Historic Post Offices Continues
Earlier this week the Postal Service announced that it planned to sell the historic post office on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York. There's an excellent article about the post office by David W. Dunlap in Friday's New York Times. The Bronx General Post Office is the largest of twenty-nine Depression-era post offices in New York City. Built in … Read More
Palm Beach Story
In October of 2010, residents of Palm Beach, Florida, learned that their post office would be closing. An historic structure built in 1936 by the New Deal, it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Residents had a few weeks to protest, and protest they did, but to no avail—the post office is closing, probably sometime in June. The … Read More