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Originally Posted by shadowbat2
^I've seen plans that show buildings on those fields, I'm pretty sure it will be quite a ways off though....
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I suspect that what you may have seen were plans for the open land south of Penn Park, which is adjacent to the Penn Medicine complex and is slated to perhaps someday be the site of more Penn Medicine buildings. On the other hand, I seriously doubt that there will be buidings on what is now Penn Park in our lifetimes (or perhaps ever).
And the rest of this post is NOT directed to shadowbat2, but Penn has worked much too hard to enhance its brand and appeal to applicants as an Ivy League university of international renown, to eliminate what it considers to be one of the crown jewels of its campus. Like it or not, Penn Park is here to stay, folks--and the vast majority of the Penn community LOVES it.
Sometimes I have to chuckle at some of the comments on this board, which seem to prove the adage that if the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything in the world looks like a nail.
There's a hell of a lot more to the development of great urban universities and--more significantly here--great cities than just filling in all of the open spaces and streetscapes with tall buildings. Just take a look at the campuses of the other urban Ivies and top universities with which Penn competes (Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, etc.), and world-class cities and cultural centers (London, Paris, Rome, etc.), to understand this.
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