Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-03-01 Thread Glenn
lding hands. I'm very excited! - Original Message - From: "UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "University City List" Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers? Glenn wrote: What absolute nonsense! After

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-29 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Glenn wrote: What absolute nonsense! After we finally had an open public forum and the neighborhood voiced massive opposition, the zoning committee is going to wait for a private deal! If Lussenhop cuts a deal, the many community members opposition is irrelevant! .. What does any private de

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-28 Thread Krfapt
In a message dated 2/28/2008 11:23:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "If we don't take on the >> challenge of helping to redevelop our part of the city, >> nobody else is going to do it as well as we are going to do >> it." If we weren't already painfully familiar w

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-28 Thread Glenn
Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?>> "The future of Penn depends on the future of Philadelphia," >> says Penn President Amy Gutmann. "If we don't take on the >> challenge of helping to redevelop our part of the city, >> nobody else is going to do it a

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-27 Thread Kimm Tynan
Wow. Says it all, donĀ¹t it? On 2/27/08 9:17 PM, "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> >> "The future of Penn depends on the future of Philadelphia," >>> >> says Penn President Amy Gutmann. "If we don't take on the >>> >> challenge of helping to redevelop our part of the city, >>> >> nobody

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-27 Thread Frank
"The future of Penn depends on the future of Philadelphia," says Penn President Amy Gutmann. "If we don't take on the challenge of helping to redevelop our part of the city, nobody else is going to do it as well as we are going to do it." Um... You are receiving this because you are subsc

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-27 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The parties who seem to be oblivious to what's happening here are hurting their own future prospects in this neighborhood by continuing to press this project. If Tom wants to do another project here, it will be greeted with great skepticism by the people in the area bec

Re: [UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-27 Thread Krfapt
This whole project was doomed from the start, by the same type of thinking that sent several past initiatives in this neighborhood into oblivion. Namely, a poorly conceived plan by people who greatly underestimated the resolve of the overwhelming majority of the people in the community to pre

[UC] Waiting for the lawyers?

2008-02-27 Thread Glenn
Neighbors, I read Mary Nixon's letter in the UC Review. She makes good points about the role of SHCA. I don't think anyone on the list has discussed the stance taken by SHCA zoning committee as stated by UCD Board member Barry Grossbach on Feb. 13; we are going to wait until the lawyers decide