UPDATE 12/20/11: The current site plan is below, from
PlanPhilly. Larger image found at source.
ORIGINAL POST: Well...it will have a green roof. Hopefully.
Renders from
howardmodels.com
From
http://www.planphilly.com/node/8618 (snip):
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's satisfied – again - with the archaeology done at the SugarHouse site and no further digging needs to happen before a permit is issued.
This doesn't mean the Corps is close to deciding whether or not to give SugarHouse the permit it needs to build its casino project as planned. The Corps also looks at environmental and other issues, and some are still outstanding. But if the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation concur with the Corps' assessment, it will mean SugarHouse has satisfied the federal requirement for a historical review of its Delaware Avenue.
“We're certainly hopeful, but we'll take our directions from the Army Corps,” said SugarHouse spokeswoman Leigh Whitaker.
While SugarHouse is pleased, some of the consulting parties – a group of local historians, neighborhood activists and archaeologists who advise the historic review process – are not.
“It's a farce,” consulting party Torben Jenk, a preservationist and amateur historian, said of the process.
The Corps previously announced its satisfaction with the dig last August. That action peeved the consulting parties, who were frustrated that the Corps had taken this step, and others, without an in-person meeting. This was especially true since many of the consulting parties – including Jenk and Philadelphia Archaeological Forum President Douglas Mooney – had long been dissatisfied with the archaeological work done by SugarHouse archaeologist consultant A.D. Marble of Conshohocken.
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And from
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?se...cal&id=6731967:
Quote:
PHILADELPHIA - March 27, 2009 - -- One of Philadelphia's proposed slot-machine casinos has received its first construction permit from the city.
Developers of the SugarHouse Casino were issued a foundation permit for the construction site on the Delaware River waterfront on Friday.
SugarHouse spokeswoman Leigh Whitaker says it will be a few weeks before developers are able to discuss a construction timeline, including laying the foundation.
Civic groups and city officials have challenged the locations of SugarHouse and the city's other proposed casino, Foxwoods Casino Philadelphia.
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Discuss.
Location: 1000 block of N. Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA
Tenant: SugarHouse Casino (no duh)
Architect: ?
Status:
Permits & Site Prep Interim Phase Complete; Phase 1(A?) proposed