TEXARKANA, Ark. Plans to improve downtown's Front Street Festival Plaza will include historical preservation, City Manager Jay Ellington told the city Historic District Commission on Wednesday.
The facade was cut off the front of the Potter Law Firm building Tuesday in the 100 block of East Broad in downtown Texarkana. Underneath it, brown bricks are exposed, like those on the two store fronts to the east of it. The facade was a heavy cement-like stucco that covered a steel frame. As pieces were hammered out or cut out. Large pieces of the debris were collected on the hydraulic platform and the steered over and dropped into a dumpster below.