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Originally Posted by hammersklavier
The rail lines are owned by Amtrak. The costs involved with acquiring the air rights and installing a cap are significant. Believe you me, if a cap happens--and there are few words that can communicate just how badly I want a cap to happen there--it is going to be much, much more intensively developed than just a look-pretty plaza for an office tower.
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Indeed. The costs would be quite significant. I proffered my thoughts on what would be best for that space, not what would be most financially feasible, and I'd certainly want it to be more than a "look-pretty plaza." I'd rather it be a well-landscaped public space. Bring a bit of Millennium Park to the western bank of the Schuylkill. We already have the ball rolling with Penn Park.
Also, the northern side of this area is much larger, and I could see placing a significant building there, while leaving a smaller portion (the part just east of FMC Tower) unbuilt. In fact, that these new renderings still show the parking garage unclad might suggest that they're planning (to some degree) for a building to cover the garage in the future.
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