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Originally Posted by eixample
I get that it is an ugly design, but the "LVL North" building includes 410 apartments plus 110K in commercial space. Arthaus, on the other hand, only has 108 condos. So that's housing maybe 500 people at Spring Garden compared to maybe 250 at Spruce Street? I'm guessing Arthaus is on a significantly smaller lot, but shouldn't we be pressing for a lot more density there? I don't get why the Broad and Spring Garden is hated so much.
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According to the December CDR which is where the renderings are from, there is only 43,000 sq ft of commercial planned, and 498 residental units.
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https://www.phila.gov/media/20191120...3-2019-CDR.pdf)
Am I missing an updated proposal?
I see that differs from their website for LVL north. Was this changed? Perhaps the 2nd floor is being converted to retail instead of residential - which would account for the 80-90 lost residential units.
Regardless I am also a bit surprised at the response - Except that there was a laudable highrise proposal first...
As it stands LVL north will have more units and commercial space than other large projects, like Lincoln Square at Broad and Washington (which i feel has been a boon to the neighborhood).
Also it is a 7 story building.