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AbsentEmpire t1_iyivmqr wrote

Reply to comment by MagnusUnda in Toll Brothers is retreating from Jewelers Row, business group says by redeyeblink

They rushed to clear it because the anti development zealots who want to poor amber over the city and never let it change, were rushing to block them with historic designation. Resulting in the worse of both worlds, an empty hole in the ground.

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lordredsnake t1_iyk8fyh wrote

Most people, including preservationists, would have been fine with an overbuild there. It was absolutely possible and the development would have taken a nearly identical form except the podium cladding would've been original walls instead of new materials.

Toll wasn't willing to waste any brainpower on that. Ironically Pearl, on the other hand, has done overbuilds with at least one more planned near Rittenhouse.

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