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Old Posted Mar 2, 2016, 6:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Londonee View Post
Does anyone else think its strange that the North West and North East views from this absurd Rooftop Village - the valuable views that showcase the city's skyline - will be fully obscured by the high-rise portion of this project? You'll have a view of a sea of South Philly row homes?

So what are you placing these amenities on the roof for if not for an awesome view? The whole concept just comes off as perfectly arbitrary.
Good point. Ill-considered, if not arbitrary. "Blatstein's Folly" is more flight-of-fancy than inspired vision. Since his every answer to the NIMBY questions was "because of the village," you clearly hit on something that escaped his notice.
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