Convention center hits another snag.
It all depends on how you define a facade. For James O. Pickard, chairman of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority, it's the front of the building you see from the street. For Randolph J. Harris, executive director of the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County, it's all of a building's outside walls and even the roof. However you interpret it, the word appears to be another roadblock in the authority's efforts to build a convention center at South Queen and East Vine streets. In the same week an authority attorney presented oral arguments before Lancaster County Judge Louis J. Farina in a lawsuit brought by 11 local hoteliers, the authority learned its responsibility to historic buildings at the proposed site could go beyond incorporating the fronts of the structures into the center's design.