Holy crap, the South Philly one is really bad. What sucks is that the idea is pretty good, but they've gone ahead and shot themselves in the foot by sticking the main loading dock
literally on the corner of 23rd and Oregon, preventing it from being anything but an inward-facing suburban lifestyle center with an urban veneer. It gets even worse when you realize that there's an obvious place to put the loading dock, too, over by the the parking garage side of the project.
They're also not even bothering to reorient the Shop Rite on the site whose ass continually moons Oregon, either, even though the renovations they're proposing are extensive enough to offer ample opportunity to do so!
E: And of course the new LA Fitness building presents its ass to 24th Street, too. This site plan is so bad it's almost farcical. If I was CDR, this is what I'd be telling them:
1. Move Building F's loading dock to the other side of the building, the one on the site's backside over by the parking garage, like, you know, where a loading dock's supposed to go.
2. Aggressively reorient the Shop Rite to face 23rd Street, instead of the timid horseshit that preserves the blank wall on Oregon they've got now.
3. Reorient the LA Fitness so that its back wall faces south, you know, towards where you'd be hitting the backside of whatever replaces Building 1 (which itself is autocentric trash but only getting a facelift so w/e).
4. Reconsider the space between Buildings F and G, which would be much better as a small plaza, and the transportation patterns to the loading docks on the aforementioned buildings as well as the parking garage.
5. Above all else, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT coming back to CDR with a pair of blank walls flanking 23rd and Oregon!!!
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Originally Posted by SEFTA
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I feel like a lot of these midsize North Broad projects that have gone to CDR haven't made it past CDR for some reason or another.