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Originally Posted by TonyTone
I just don't buy that, maybe if you said the political will and money wasn't there to rehabilitate the area was the case then I can see that, however anything can be fixed as you see examples of 100+ year old structures being rehabbed, and transformed before our eyes now.
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There's no way this area was somehow worse than the rest of Old City and we still have long stretches of original buildings there. We could have leveled Old City, replaced it with those 70s brown brick town homes in Society Hill, and people today would say "Old City was in BAD shape, you couldn't save it." Also, we lament what was lost at Independence Mall but we lost just as much between 3rd & 5th, Chestnut & Walnut. These "historical parks" are such a Disney Land portrayal of the 18th Century.
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