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Old 03-10-2017, 09:31 AM
 
Location: New York City
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Why is this allowed to happen?


Disgraced parking authority chief to get 10 years of free health coverage
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Old 03-10-2017, 09:35 AM
 
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The real questions in Philly is, "how do we stop it from happening given the current state of affairs?"
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Old 03-10-2017, 10:45 AM
 
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The real questions in Philly is, "how do we stop it from happening given the current state of affairs?"
Unless something has changed, the state manages/runs PPA just like the state has control over the SRC wrt the Phila School District.

So ask someone like Brian Sims, "Why?"
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Old 03-10-2017, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Center City
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Gerrymandering. No oversight. Patronage appointments. Mutual back scratching. Graft.
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Old 03-10-2017, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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Defensive move, according to both the PRDC people quoted in the article and my contact at the firm. They wanted to put down a marker on their desires/intentions ahead of any attempt to designate the entirety of Jewelers Row historic.

But as Paul Steinke, head of the Preservation Alliance, is quoted in the story as saying he thinks that building atop the Jewelry Trades Building is not all that bad an idea, they might not have as much to worry about except another hurdle to jump if/when a historic district goes through. But since the permits are good for - what, two years? - this gives them time to assemble the puzzle pieces.
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Old 03-16-2017, 10:41 AM
 
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Rail Park construction on track. Exciting!

https://www.therailpark.org/news/201...on-is-on-track
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:14 AM
 
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Rail Park construction on track. Exciting!

https://www.therailpark.org/news/201...on-is-on-track
This is, indeed, so so so exciting!
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Old 03-16-2017, 12:17 PM
 
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This is, indeed, so so so exciting!
Agreed. It will be even more exciting when some of the parking lots surrounding the viaduct fill in. NYC's High Line is integrated nicely with the buildings that touch it (one of the things that makes it so great IMO). I hope that happens here.
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Old 03-17-2017, 08:16 AM
 
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Agreed. It will be even more exciting when some of the parking lots surrounding the viaduct fill in. NYC's High Line is integrated nicely with the buildings that touch it (one of the things that makes it so great IMO). I hope that happens here.
We can only hope that our high line will create something of the same kind of transformation that happened in NY! Moving the Whitney Museum there was a stroke of genius.

Being an oldhead I remember when the NY Meat Packing District was mostly that. Man, a stroll, west, on 14th St approaching 9th Ave....the odor! Oy!
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Old 03-17-2017, 09:13 AM
 
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We can only hope that our high line will create something of the same kind of transformation that happened in NY! Moving the Whitney Museum there was a stroke of genius.

Being an oldhead I remember when the NY Meat Packing District was mostly that. Man, a stroll, west, on 14th St approaching 9th Ave....the odor! Oy!
LOL at oldhead. I remember it as well, but was younger for sure. The MPD is unrecognizable today, even from the 90s.

And I do hope it transforms the properties around it. I hope any new developments tie right to the park like in NYC. So cool.
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