Asheville Citizen-Times "Answer Man"

I missed this one since it wasn't printed as an official "Answer Man" even though it was.

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010304260014

Here's my little piece, although it might be illegal for me to put it up on my blog...oops?

Question: Several years ago the public was offered the opportunity to purchase honorary/memorial bricks to be laid in front of Pack Place. With the new park construction, they were taken up and supposedly stored. I cannot find out if/when/where they will be re-laid.

Smart-aleck answer: (Mass communication major Patrick Zarcone handles this one, and I gotta say I admire the way he's mastered smart-aleckage so quickly.) They were recently sold off in hopes of paying for the currently nonexistent bathrooms in Pack Square Park.

Real answer: When the construction workers came in, the 150 or so bricks came out.

“Those bricks are actually part of the Urban Trail collection, which is part of our public art collection here at the city, and they were pulled up during the construction of the park,” said Diane Ruggiero, cultural arts superintendent for the city of Asheville. “They will be reinstalled as part of station No. 1, which is yet to be built.”

The Urban Trail is an arts and history walking tour through downtown.

Ruggiero said they also need to see what happens with construction on the museum in Pack Place before placing the bricks. “We want to make sure if we put them out there, they're not going to get damaged.”