A recent large gift to Durham Rescue Mission "accelerates a possible conflict that's been brewing in recent months over the expansion plans for the shelter, which have intersected with a neighborhood-led effort to upgrade the Golden Belt national historic district to a local historic district, something that's gained the requisite percentage of signatures but the opposition of Mills and the Rescue Mission.

Durham's Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously last week to support the creation of the district, which would carry with it some aesthetic impact on new and renovated structures and could delay demolition of existing properties, though it could not block such from happening."

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Bull City Rising (1/19/2011)