This entire project depresses me. Of course I don't oppose change, but the International House was such an important landmark in West Philly. It's insane how much West has changed since I was a little kid growing up there. The international house was this cool brutalist building where cool cultural events were held, and now that's going to be replaced with a Target. Targets are useful no doubt, but I think this represents the changes going on in west really well. Almost everything I used to know, businesses I used to frequent now demolished for ugly student apartments, the parking lot of my high school being turned into apartments, etc... Like I said, change isn't bad necessarily, but West Philly's gentrification does make me sad at times. The area is cleaner and safer (relatively), but also less real if that makes sense
^ It's not getting replaced though. Do you mean the addition will lessen the beauty of the building?
They’re saying they should have used the addition to dd to the cultural fabric of the neighborhood rather than a target that could go anywhere. They’re lamenting that as things change the character of the neighborhood changes as well and feels soulless to them. The target represents that.
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