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14 APRIL 2019
This closing entry is short, and its claim is narrow: On 14 April 2019, Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced his candidacy for president of the United States from the floor of Studebaker Building 84, in the old works, in the district the city had spent its post-Studebaker decades remaking. The candidacy itself, and the national career that followed, belong to Government and to the events listings; what earns the day its place in this section is the venue and what the venue marked. Fifty-five years and four months after the last Lark came off the line a few hundred feet from that floor, the Studebaker works were the stage the city chose for the largest announcement of its modern life — not restored as a museum of what had been lost, but working as the city's front room. The remaking that Government chronicles — the commissions, the demolitions, the Renaissance District rising in the works — has no single date. If it is given one, it is this one.
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- This build's Government section (Landmark acts) — the announcement of 14 April 2019 from the floor of Studebaker Building 84 in the Renaissance District; this build's Studebaker section — the works, Building 84 and the district's remaking of the plant ground.