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Originally Posted by hammersklavier
I rather like Durst's treatment of the Spruce Street site. It looks really good!
I'm not really sold on the amount of green space they're proposing at the Market Street site, but I like how they're orienting the whole thing around what they're calling "Penns Landing Road". The site plan looks really good in general, and I like Durst's aggressive timeline.
I am still worried they control too much waterfront land now -- Durst now has development rights on every development parcel along Delaware Avenue from Callowhill to Lombard -- but the combination between long-term vision and detailed site plan suggests they have thought this thing out.
Since I don't think the Market Street site will be conveyable until after cap park work is done, I want to see Durst realize either their Callowhill or Spruce street sites in the meantime. Doing at least one or the other will earn a vote of confidence from me.
Oh yes -- Hargreaves is the Market Street site's landscape architects. This should yield a coherent flow of greenspace between the cap park and Market Street site (as the same landscape architects will be responsible for both).
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I LOVE THE SCALE!
TOWERS! I hope they DON'T get scaled down.
Only concern is the connections between upper level and lower level waterfront. All and all a pretty well thought out plan. I think there is enough parkland as long as the waterfront promenade is wide and landscaped, even where it heads west to Columbus Blvd ("Delaware River Boulevard") on the north side of plan.
Frank Gehry is replacing Museum!
(Just kidding
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A tower above/instead of Hilton Parking Lot facing Walnut!
