My newspaper gave this event front-page coverage, with a different take.
http://www.phillyrecord.com/daily-2010/PDR-12-09-10.pdf
--Tony West
On 12/9/2010 8:08 AM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote:
by two real partners in several joint ventures:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20101207_New_h
In a message dated 12/9/2010 7:34:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
anthony_w...@earthlink.net writes:
My newspaper gave this event front-page coverage, with a different take.
http://www.phillyrecord.com/daily-2010/PDR-12-09-10.pdf
--Tony West
The DP had yet another take... including this trul
On 12/10/2010 8:49 AM, krf...@aol.com wrote:
The DP had yet another take... including this truly
memorable paragraph:
"In 2009, developers announced they planned to build the
hotel at 40th and Pine streets. They changed locations
after nearby residents expressed concerns that the
ntity. The project site was then
moved to Walnut Street to fit in better with the road’s commercial aesthetic."
I'm afraid that the Penn people really believe this...
Un-effing-believable!
From: krf...@aol.com
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:49:40 -0500
Subject: Re: [UC] hotel an
ht be tied up for quite some time.
Tut-TUT! After all, we're ONLY residents.
From: Karen Allen
Reply-To: Karen Allen
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:38:57 -0500
To: UnivCity listserv
Subject: RE: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut
RE "The DP had yet another take... inclu
I don't know ... this DP 'graf reads like a pretty straight account to
me, except where they got the year wrong. But who's counting?
I was curious to see the intricate network of public-sector financing
that underlies this project. Of course, the private sector doesn't lend
money anymore, so I
In a message dated 12/10/2010 11:22:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
anthony_w...@earthlink.net writes:
I don't know ... this DP 'graf reads like a pretty straight account to me,
except where they got the year wrong. But who's counting?
Ummm, Tony:
Do you really think the decision to reloc
All right. How about "A few nearby residents and a large number of
faraway ones expressed concerns, often heatedly. In the end, their
concerns carried the day with the ZBA and the hotel project moved three
blocks north, on another mixed-use corridor street"?
But I doubt the DP's readers are in
In a message dated 12/11/2010 7:04:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
anthony_w...@earthlink.net writes:
All right. How about "A few nearby residents and a large number of faraway
ones expressed concerns, often heatedly. In the end, their concerns
carried the day with the ZBA and the hotel pr
I attended several community meetings and my description is precise. By
law, zoning concerns are restricted to, what is it, people living or
owning property within 1,000 ft of the property? Both you & I fall
outside this line. Most of the big mouths about the 40th & Pine site
were not neighbors
"They changed locations
after nearby residents expressed concerns that the
building would harm the neighborhood's identity."
I think it's important that everyone remember that new journalism
transfers "messaging" from the halls of power, unexamined, directly to
consumers. This "histor
dated structure and spend
some of their vast, impressive energies on 40th and Pine.
Guy
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From: Anthony West
To: UnivCity listserv
Sent: Sat, Dec 11, 2010 10:43 pm
Subject: Re: [UC] hotel and office building on walnut
I attended several community meetings and my descrip
In a message dated 12/11/2010 10:45:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
anthony_w...@earthlink.net writes:
Every time I walk past this crumbling monument to misguided
radicalism at 40th & Pine, I wonder how long it'll be until it burns.
Or, as President Reagan famously said to Jim
"As for your nonsense about "my" "outspending" "you", I own one building
in one city and one neighborhood -- right here -- my home -- which I am
struggling to hang onto in the midst of a terrible recession. How many
buildings do you own? How many cities do you own property in? I spent
zip money
krf...@aol.com wrote:
They wrote "In 2009, developers announced they planned to build the
hotel at 40th and Pine streets. They changed locations after nearby
residents expressed concerns that the building would harm the
neighborhood’s identity. The project site was then moved to Walnut
Stree
A deeper way to read this is simply that the local eds & meds industry
continues to grow, at a time when many other American industries are
suffering from international competition. So E&M is tending, over the
long run, to take up more real estate around its bases -- of which we
are one.
But
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