Which best evaluates the purpose of this excerpt from a newspaper article?
Last month, Mayor Jackson proposed a new plan to modernize the town, which includes tearing down the Old Mill. According to the mayor, the Old Mill is built on a valuable piece of land. If it is sold, money would become available to improve the town’s schools and emergency services. Opponents of the mayor’s plan have argued that the Old Mill should be protected as a historical landmark because of the role it played in the town’s past. They have started a letter-writing campaign to save the Old Mill from being demolished.
A. To convince the audience that the plan to tear down the Old Mill should continue
B. To inform the audience about two viewpoints on tearing down the Old Mill
C. To inform the audience about the history of the Old Mill
D. To convince the audience to consider the Old Mill a historical landmark