Moruzzi said the Modern Committee sat down with the tribe on July 18 and presented a comprehensive marketing package that was “completely supportive of their plans.” They tried to convince the tribe that it could benefit from historic preservation tax credits of between 20% and 40%. Preservationists were hoping that investment would incorporate key elements of the original design. “It’s been more than 50 years since the tribe has been able to make any investment in protecting and preserving that spring, and to do so the tribe needed to make investments in the property that houses that spring.” “We are truly talking about an ancient water source that has been the heart of the tribe for thousands of years,” Anderson said. Kate Anderson, a spokeswoman for the tribe, said that the mineral spring is at least 12,000 years old, dating to the ice age.
