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OKC Historian Fights To Save Old Film Exchange Building

OKLAHOMA CITY -

The fight to save an historic building downtown is beginning to gain some steam.


The old Film Exchange building is set to be demolished, but a local historian is fighting to keep it. The plan is to make way for the new $130-million 70-acre central park planned downtown.

There's a couple of things that the MAPS planning committee is going to want for this building to have a future. It has to work within the scope of the original plan, and somebody has to pay for it to be renovated.

It's the beginning of what supporters believe could be a long fight to keep an historic piece of downtown Oklahoma City....

Read entire article at News 9 (OK)