Partners in Preservation Watch - Cascade rises to 8th place; “preserving your history builds stronger communities”

As of 9 p.m. tonight, the Cleveland Cascade had risen to eighth place (with 5 percent of the votes) from ninth place (with 4 percent) this morning — after temporarily holding seventh place — out of a field of 25 Bay Area preservation projects in the Partners in Preservation web competition.

The Oakland Fox maintained its very strong second-place position but dropped to 10 percent of the votes from 11 percent this morning.

The Partners in Preservation web competition was the topic on the first hour of this morning’s “Forum” program on KQED FM’s from 9 to 10 a.m.

You can listen to that program on the web.

In a discussion of the Cleveland Cascade, Anthony Veerkamp, senior program officer at the Western Regional Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said:

It’s certainly one of our central contentions in the preservation movement that preserving your history builds stronger communities. And the example just cited, the Cleveland Cascade, I think tells that story perfectly, where the Cleveland Cascade has been an organizing focal point for a community to work together to actually jump start the City of Oakland, which very generously included bond funding for the Cleveland Cascade in a recent bond measure.

Here are the current top-10 rankings as of 9:08 p.m., September 22:

Angel Island Immigration Station (12%)
Fox Oakland Theater (10%)
Pigeon Point Lighthouse Station (8%)
Roxie Film Center (8%)
Fallon Building (San Francisco LGBT Center) (6%)
Haas Lilienthal House (5%)
Japanese YWCA Building (5%)
Cleveland Cascade Park (5%)
Lyford House (4%)
Tilden Park Carousel (4%)

You can vote once per day through October 31st at the Partners in Preservation site.

For more information, read “Cleveland Cascade and Fox vie for part of $1 million in preservation grants.”