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Originally Posted by City Wide
Success for PREIT is going to be easily measured in terms dollars and customers. Success for the City might have some overlap but is largely different, and has more to do with people's attitude and thoughts about this Mall. Example, the Reading Terminal Market exterior is ok design wise, but for the last 25 years or so it has been a great success for the City as a whole. Even if one doesn't shop there its a place you take out of town guests. I hope this new mall can turn into a similar success (and will cause PREIT do hurry up and build the apartment/condo towers and do something on the other side of Market St.)
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I am talking about success for the city. It doesn't need to a beauty for that to happen. It's only 3 blocks, and there is an entire South Side on those blocks. Not to mention a burgeoning East Chestnut. It just needs to enliven the streetscape a bit, bring some people around and inside. If this three-block stretch is no longer some barren, underutilized hellscape between Old City and the CBD, that is largely a success. And, yes, the apartment towers will help if they can get off the ground.