This past week, the Austin City Council essentially gave away the iconic, historic Seaholm Power Plant building to developers for the construction of commercial office space that will almost entirely be off limits to the public. As Ken Altes, a founder of a group called the Friends of Seaholm, eloquently summarized at the City Council meeting: "If you allow it to become an office, it's gone. You'll be remembered as the council that lost Seaholm," he said. "You have the potential to make it a world-class facility that the public wants. ... The (power plant) should be the . . .
