Saying Goodbye: Main Street Arena Architect Reflects on its Demolition

Local restoration architect Henry J. Browne, now in his 80s, has been stopping in for coffee at the restaurant at the Omni Hotel this past week, not necessarily for the coffee, but for the view it provides of the building across the way that he designed over 20 years ago, and which is about to disappear.

"It's sad," says Browne, standing out in front of …