35 floors?
Brickstone Realty Cos. is proposing to construct a 35-story residential tower at the Lits building that would entail coring out a portion of the building and putting the new structure on an original foundation.
The new building would be an independent structure and stand a total of 429 feet. It would poke out of the back of the building north along Filbert Street.
More than a dozen connected structures make up the Lits building, which has office and retail space.
The historical commission has jurisdiction over the exterior appearance of the building, the facades and roof. The new structure would be constructed without any demolition of the Lits historical facade and be 160 feet removed from Market Street where its historical facade is most prominent. The question, among others, comes to whether this construction alters important spaces that make up the building and whether it hinders the public from appreciating its historical characteristics.
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