08/31/2024
Save the Colson Hotel! Say NO to Demolition! Say YES to Preservation!
The developer of the Colson Hotel will appear before the Sarasota City Commission on Tuesday September 3rd seeking a demolition permit.
***ATTEND the City Commissioners Meeting
9:00 am Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Sarasota City Hall, 1565 1st Street, Sarasota, FL 34236
***SIGN THE LETTER and EMAIL our Sarasota City Commissioners asking that they not allow the developer to destroy the iconic Colson Hotel.
https://bit.ly/3XmAOHT
The Colson Hotel, built in 1925, was part of Sarasota’s real estate boom in the 1920s and is integral to the cultural heritage of Sarasota’s African American community. It was the only hotel in Sarasota that allowed African Americans to stay there during Jim Crow. It is one of the last remaining vestiges of Overtown, our original black community that is now being gentrified.
Support the preservation of our historic heritage. The Sarasota City code and the Historic Preservation Web site states “…"It shall be the goal of the City of Sarasota to identify, document, protect, preserve, and enhance all cultural, historic, architectural, archaeological resources of the City."
***LEARN MORE about the Preservation Plan by the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation:
https://www.preservesrq.org/post/colson-hotel-may-be-demolished
Vickie Oldham Lorrie Muldowney Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition, Inc.
