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COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
By Mary Meehan, Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 31--After moving to Tulsa, Holly Wiedemann was surprised to find that when folks out on the plains talked about historic preservation, they meant saving something that was, say, 75 years old.
"I thought that was very funny," said Wiedemann, who had grown up in a Lexington house built in the late 1700s and moved out west after college. "It was a real eye-opener."
But, as Wiedemann has learned, what is historic and worthy of preservation often depends on who is doing the evaluation. Since creating AU Associates in 1991, Wiedemann has been challenging the common assumption that renovation is too difficult and too expensive.
From Midway to Irvine to Louisville to Lexington, Wiedemann is one of the few Kentucky developers translating the central concept of Smart Growth into concrete by reusing grand old structures in new ways.
In Midway, an old, neglected school building now houses sleek apartments for two dozen seniors. In Louisville, a long-abandoned YMCA building...
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