Turtle gets paint

The Turtle building in Niagara Falls received a new coat of beige paint last week.

The architecturally significant building had peeling paint and plants in the gutters.

It is owned by Niagara Falls Development. The Niagara Falls Historic Preservation Commission last winter attempted give the building a historic preservation designation.

NFR argued the building, designed by indigenous architect Dennis Sun Rhodes, was neither old enough for the designation nor significant enough.

The Niagara Falls City Council held a meeting on the matter and declined to recommendation but never actually discussed whether it was worthy of the designation, instead turning it into a discussion of property rights and whether the preservation designation should exist.