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Old Posted Mar 11, 2015, 6:29 PM
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Originally Posted by summersm343 View Post
Article on the Boyd and the tower from Naked Philly
http://www.ocfrealty.com/naked-phill...y-be-preserved

And another from PlanPhilly
http://planphilly.com/articles/2015/...tre-auditorium


Well that answers a lot of my questions. It looks like they are going to build the tower with the same footprint as originally proposed and hopefully the same design.

But what is going to where the Boyd theater is currently located? Another movie theater with multiple screens? What will the lobby and original portion of the theater be turned into?

It is my understanding that due to the fact that the proposed tower is so tall, whatever gets built on this portion of the property can't be very tall without variances. So seems like movie theaters or some other type of short commercial use is likely. Whatever is proposed better be good, otherwise why demolish the theater, as its demolition is clearly entirely unrelated to the proposed residential tower.