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Old 04-01-2013, 09:57 AM
 
Location: The City
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Now apartments replacing retail space at the gallery, hmmm

Breaking: Apartments Coming to the Gallery Mall | NakedPhilly
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Old 04-01-2013, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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Now apartments replacing retail space at the gallery, hmmm

Breaking: Apartments Coming to the Gallery Mall | NakedPhilly
That's got to be April Fools. It got me at first, then I remembered last year when they had the breaking news on the Divine Lorraine.
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Old 04-01-2013, 10:11 AM
 
Location: The City
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That's got to be April Fools. It got me at first, then I remembered last year when they had the breaking news on the Divine Lorraine.

You may be right it got me
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Old 04-01-2013, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Now apartments replacing retail space at the gallery, hmmm

Breaking: Apartments Coming to the Gallery Mall | NakedPhilly
This is an April Fools joke. It's not real
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Old 04-01-2013, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Cumberland County, NJ
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This is an April Fools joke. It's not real
Even if that were true I don't think many people would want to live that close to the mall.
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Old 04-01-2013, 08:58 PM
 
Location: West Cedar Park, Philadelphia
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Even if that were true I don't think many people would want to live that close to the mall.
There's that hotel in Baltimore that's above a mall.
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Old 04-02-2013, 06:38 AM
 
Location: back in Philadelphia!
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There's that hotel in Baltimore that's above a mall.
Heck, there's a hotel at liberty place.
Having a hotel connected to a mall is really common.

Apartments in the gallery would be weird, but not the craziest idea I ever heard..
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Old 04-02-2013, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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Yes, it was an April Fool joke, but "apartments over the store" has a long pedigree in the history of American town building. Think of all those buildings on Walnut that have street-level retail with apartments above.

Were someone to actually do this as part of a refit of an existing shopping mall, however, it would be novel. Perhaps it ought not be.
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Old 04-02-2013, 12:47 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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The Zoo is proposing a Regional Rail train stop at 34th and Mantua Ave.

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A new study proposes a SEPTA station at 34th Street and Mantua Avenue, a short walk from the zoo's south entrance.
Although the zoo was built on its West Philadelphia site in 1874 partly because of handy rail access, the original Zoological Garden station at 34th Street and Girard Avenue closed in 1902, a victim of Pennsylvania Railroad expansion.
Now, congested highway access and limited parking have convinced zoo leaders that a new train station would increase attendance and ease traffic.
Kenneth Woodson, the zoo's vice president of community and government affairs, said the zoo would "pursue aggressively" a new train station.
A new station, with rail platforms, elevators and stairways, and requisite environmental work and track relocation, could cost about $60 million, said architect Robert P. Thomas, an author of the new rail feasibility study for the zoo.
Thomas and other planners also looked at putting the train station by the zoo's main entrance on 34th and Girard, where the original station was. But that could cost about $200 million because of the challenges of trying to build amid the converging Amtrak and SEPTA rail lines there, he said.
Officials working to restore rail passenger service to Philly Zoo
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Old 04-02-2013, 02:24 PM
 
Location: Cumberland County, NJ
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Heck, there's a hotel at liberty place.
Having a hotel connected to a mall is really common.

Apartments in the gallery would be weird, but not the craziest idea I ever heard..
That's the part I was talking about. It would be weird to see that. lol.

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The Zoo is proposing a Regional Rail train stop at 34th and Mantua Ave.



Officials working to restore rail passenger service to Philly Zoo
It would be nice to have direct rail service to the Philly Zoo instead of having to drive all the time. Do you personally think that area would be better served by the subway instead of regional rail?
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