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Originally Posted by McBane
I don't get the orientation. The tower is L shaped and the smaller portion is fronting Broad and the larger portion is fronting Carpenter. Why? Why wouldn't the tallest parts of the project face Broad and Washington? It reminds me of the tower portion of 1900 fronting Samson instead of Chestnut. It seems odd.
Here's the thing. This is a girthy building. If the NIMBYs make it shorter (and is this something Blatstein is anticipating?), I'm afraid of what this will look like.
Of course 400 feet is perfectly appropriate to everyone here for Broad Street especially near a subway stop. But the NIMBYs will flip.
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The Nimby's already did their flipping. That why there is one tower instead of two.
I like what Bart is doing here. He is basically setting Nimby's up, "Well if I can't have two smaller towers, I'll have one larger one."
I think Bart knows there is a middle ground, he is setting his standards high and forcing them to budge.