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On last night’s news you heard UBAD Educational Foundation activist Yaya Marin Coleman.  She was raising hell about the prospect of re-naming the structure at the foot of the swing bridge “Paslow Building.â€￾  That’s the name of the old building which burnt down in 2002.  

Now, under the Taiwan funded Downtown Rejuvenation Project, a new two-story building will be constructed at Lot 977 at the corner of Queen and North Front Streets. 

But, will it be named Paslow, like its predecessor?  Yaya fears it will, but but Culture Minister Patrick Faber says it won’t.  He says he and Yaya are on the same page.  He told us via text, quote, “I completely agree it shouldn’t be called Paslow.  I’m thinking we can have a naming competition where we hear suggestions for the new name and stakeholders decide.â€￾

So, we don’t know what the new name of that new building will be, but we can say for sure it won’t be Paslow.  The UEF has proposed 1919 Plaza to commemorate the Ex-servicemen’s Riot of July 22 and 23rd 1919.