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Old Posted Aug 6, 2021, 9:34 PM
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Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC View Post
As 10-year tax abatement nears its end, Philadelphia’s architectural treasures are left vulnerable

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/hist...aurentius-lancaster-avenue-20210805.html

Thoughts on this article?
This is the kind of thinking that soured me on historic preservation. "on one hand, historic preservation would incur significant short and long term costs, on the other hand I wouldn't be paying those costs." I just don't think driving up housing prices and skyrocketing the cost of maintaining homes with old inefficient styles is worth making the city look better to people like Inga.

The black doctors row thing is another horrific example, a bunch of generic rowhouses in one of the richest neighborhoods in the city and they can't be altered because a kind of famous person lived nearby. That's definitely not an insane standard to go by!