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Originally Posted by summersm343
Old City is a different story, and I think we can get something built that can replicate or be similar to what was there.
1700 block of Walnut though? Let's just cut our loses there, allow a highrise be built with 2-3 retail spaces on the ground floor and call it a day. Otherwise, this site is going to sit vacant for a decade.
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Absolutely disagree. PHC required permits to be submitted one year after demo (which would be this fall). All three parcels are individually owned and as far as I can tell none have been put up for sale.
The facades could be easily rebuilt with perhaps an overbuild of some kind like what was done over at the Laurel. Furthermore, any plans would have to be approved by the PHC.
There's far too much arson and weak excuses against historic preservation in this city. The rebuild plans for 239 Chestnut, which were rejected by the PHC, were submitted in the fall of 2019. Any progress beyond that probably was at least in part thwarted by Covid.