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Originally Posted by allovertown
Welcome to the forum! Which nearby building do you live in NIMBY?
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That was uncalled for.
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Originally Posted by SunNeverSets
If anything my major criticism is that the Samsom street building should be more than two stories.
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I'd have loved to see something more substantial at 20th and Sansom as well, but I understand the decisions as made. Not only is most of the FAR being used on the Walnut Street side, but if you wanted height at that corner you would be forced to have a large but squat and unattractive building with only one core -- or two slimmer and more attractive towers with two cores. Building cores are quite expensive parts of the building, too, and are necessary to access its revenue-producing parts but don't themselves produce revenue.
I am much less a fan of the Harper's site plan across the street (I think that one's the Harper? I'm starting to lose track of the apartment tower names...) because I thought its tallest part should face Chestnut, but ultimately sometimes we're stuck with what we're given, and by the time Baker took over architecting that building its Chestnut Street side was already a done-deal Target.
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