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Old Posted Jun 17, 2016, 8:35 PM
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Sure the skyscrapers are nice and all but the best part of all of this is what they're planning to do at human scale. the general area of 30th Street has never been terribly accommodating to pedestrians and even rather decent efforts to place-make there like The Porch (awful name) still exist as an oasis in the midst of a swirl of traffic. Rebranding necessarily means recreating here. The renders of more appealing streetscape along 30th Street are encouraging as well as that ambitious connection to 30th St MFL/SST.

We've been fed tons of drawings of happy people frolicking in new parks under soaring towers before but I'm noticing a difference in the names of the entities involved from this latest imaginefest and those from years past...many private and quasi-public organizations are involved but nowhere among them will you find 'City of Philadelphia'. Perhaps that's why this seems so possible.
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