At this time, I don't know what governmental body needs to be addressed to give attention to this issue....but for me this would be number 1.

You don't want blight at Wilson Park. If there's one area of Granite City that must stay nice, it's the genius creation of the City Fathers known as Wilson Park.

Granite City was a well-planned city, and they actually thought about reserving land to uplift the senses of an otherwise bleak industrial landscape.

The blight spot is the building once known as Niedringhaus school.

Currently, the building is sitting there with windows boarded up, and looking closely at the building, it appears that it at a decision point....one that needs to be made soon.

Maybe there are plans and I haven't seen what they are.

But it desperately needs tuckpointing and basic maintenance that by looking at it would be $2-$5 Million. Or it needs a wrecking ball, and a comprehensive plan to develop the site.

As it stands, it's a blight spot in the last place where Granite City needs to experience blight.

Rehabbing Niedringhaus has its benefits, if it can be defined what its uses are. Otherwise, it's time to move on.

I don't know if it's a City, Park, or school issue at this point, but hopefully elected officials will work together to make sure that Wilson Park remains that one place where people can experience some kind of beauty and it can remain a refuge from the blight.

If the Park becomes blighted....there's not much else in Granite City that will remain beautiful either.

That is what I would be voting for!