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Originally Posted by 1487
there are a host of reasons. You are drastically oversimplifying several aspects of what happened. Also, the waiting list you speak of is for rental housing and/or vouchers- not the same as much of the for sale housing that was built in North Philly (and elsewhere) during 90s and 2000s. Rehabbing old homes is slow and expensive. any contractor will tell you it's faster and more efficient to build new than it is to retrofit- especially when you are trying to retrofit modern features into old structure. Saying it's "cheaper" as blanket statement is not accurate.
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Yes, you can't make a blanket statement like that. But in all likelihood, in this circumstance, the City could have rehabbed existing housing stock in the area for less money than the PHA Sharswood plan will cost. It's also not a binary choice. In building new, they didn't need to build the WAY that they are.
I don't know whether the shots in the Comcast picture are also public or Section 8 housing, though. Since this thread IS about Comcast, I will say it's looking great! Nice, continued progress on the cooling towers and really starting to shine in the sky. You can really start to see what it will look like too with the recent renders in this thread.