LETTERS: Progress slow on city's great old landmarks

Owner Jerry Schwartz at the Newcastle Post Office. In July Dr Schwartz estimated he had spent $1.5 million on the building already. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

GREAT news for the East End ("Final phases of mall overhaul revealed", Newcastle Herald, 17/9), the final piece of the puzzle. So why, in that case, has the former post office been left out? I would think it would still be classed as a part of that East End puzzle yet it remains largely in disrepair and seemingly no questions have been asked by City of Newcastle.

Previously in the Herald, an article reported its owner Dr Jerry Schwartz announcing plans to open a school of hospitality here, but no date or place ("Plans for Schwartz school of hospitality", Herald, 14/9). If he can manage to afford to open this type of school, then why the hold-up on the restoration of the post office building?