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Architecture Committee of the Historical Commission rejected the in-concept proposal. The head of the INHP was there and hammered it for its proximity to the Merchant's Exchange Building, bought up the old "shadows, NOOO!" excuse. Society Hill Towers Condo Assn was unsurprisingly against it, as was the Society Hill Civic.

In the end, the committee rejected it on logical grounds in that the plan violates Standard 9 of the Dept of the Interior's standards for the treatment of historic properties, but right after the decision was made, one of the committee members threw in a "and it's too tall for the area!!" just to talk trash.