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Originally Posted by 1487
If this area becomes heavily developed the park space will be valuable and appreciated. We have a long way to go before we get to the point where this park is standing in the way of the manhattanization of west market. Do you folks actually know the area? Have you seen the parking lots and dilapidated buildings there now? If taking this lot off the market helps focus attention on the other parcels I say its a good thing. As for "bums"- they are all over CC and this park's presence wont make any impact on their population or habits. CC has quite a bit of open park space so I am baffled as to why all the homeless are going to zero on on this small ass park and set up camp as if its the Mecca of homeless hangouts. Give me a break. Maybe they can make it private like Dilworth so they can keep bums and other undesirables at bay.
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Please go look at the rendering for this park again. It will never be appreciated, it is a disaster of comic proportions. Again, it looks like it was designed by an insane person. I'm not worried about homeless people taking it over, in fact I think the homeless will be too creeped out to even loiter here, who would want to hang in this teal and purple lit park for a second?
So please, spare me the discussion about the neighborhood and how there are plenty of other places to build a skyscraper etc, that's not what I'm complaining about. I thought that the very idea for the park was a poor one, but once it was announced I without judgement because lately Philadelphia has been creating some amazing public spaces. This park is not one of those amazing public spaces. I'm not criticizing putting a park here. I'm criticizing putting THIS PARK here.
THIS PARK:
I mean honestly. It's hideous.