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Originally Posted by eschaton
News is very slow now, but a couple things are still happening:
Spear Street got their (extremely surface-parking heavy) redesign of the Sears Outlet into office space approved last week
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I figured this would go through, considering that the parking is basically already there... they'll be just re-configuring things a bit and painting lines. And since both Childrens and West Penn hospitals have
massive surface parking lots in the very near vicinity. The Childrens lot is especially enormous and riverfront.
This redevelopment of the Sears Outlet into a large employment hub is going to be a major shot in the arm for Upper Lawrenceville revitalization. I would be surprised if that foundry continues to operate in that location for too much longer once this redevelopment takes hold. Emissions scrutiny will only increase, the owners will NOT invest in the best emissions technology, and a dollar amount will be reached to make it attractive enough for the owners to sell. And of course they'll blame those bad "environmentalists" for causing them to shutdown and put people out of work... never mentioning that their executives all cashed out by selling the land to developers and the business to another holding company. It's
always the same story line.
It will be interesting to watch the neighborhood dynamics unfold over the next few years.