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A Minneapolis City Council committee is in a hearing today discussing whether Peavey Plaza is worth preserving.

People enjoy an afternoon at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis, Minn. Wednesday, May 16, 2012. After Minneapolis' Heritage Preservation Commission voted in support of saving the plaza, the Minneapolis City Council will vote this month on whether the plaza should be preserved or demolished and rebuilt. MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson 

The city's planning department says the downtown park is unsafe, inaccessible and too expensive to maintain. They want to replace it with a newly designed plaza they say will better suit the city's needs.

 historic preservationists see the plaza as a significant work of modernist architecture and they're fighting to save it.

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The debate has also reached the attention of the New York Times, which reported on the story this morning. You can find that 

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