A 1,000-foot colossus by the Schuylkill

Philadelphia Enquirer ^ | 12/14/06 | Joseph A. Slobodzian

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"A 1,000-foot colossus by the SchuylkillThe proposed $3.5 billion "Phila. River City" would rise 60 stories above JFK Blvd. But it exceeds limits and, so far, has few advocates. By Joseph A. Slobodzian Inquirer Staff Writer Its developers call it "Philadelphia River City" - a colossal $3.5 billion project that would remake northwest Center City along the Schuylkill with 12 million square feet of residential, commercial and office space in a series of 10 towers that would dwarf anything in the neighborhood..."

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For years Billy Penn atop City Hall was the tallest structure in Philly by law. Then in the 90's a few Towers went up, Center City became the place to be with entertainment and reasturants etc. But still, Philadelphia didn't look like a modern city, kind of a 1950's city, with a center and a donut of abandoned neighborhoods wiped out by Urban Socialism sort of like Detroit. I mean look at Atlanta, big tall towers everwhere, but now it may happen to Sleepadelphia.

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plus Philly has no winning pro teams except for Eagles?

[yobid]

You can't polish a turd.

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hey

[Holicheese]

Eagles are a winning team??? When?

[philsfan24]

eagles are no winning team.

[2banana]

And the people who will live there will be drawned by the highest wage tax in the nation (about 4.5%)????

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A spider can't build a web in Philadelphia without some city politician and his rent-a-mob of community activists raising holy hell on the evening news.

If these people showed half as much interest in fighting crime as they do in fighting any and all investment in their city, the place wouldn't be such a worthless sh*thole.

And this is my hometown we're talking about.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

7-6 is technically a "winning team". Despite the fact that they give up 200 rushing yards every week before you can even blink.

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Garcia is better than McNab More accurate.

Yeah, the wage tax is killing city for 50 years but Dem Mayors won't change it.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

There's no good reason for any Dem politician to want to change it. The wage tax keeps wage earners out of the city, thus out of the voting booths.

Philly's fiscal insanity is by design. And the design is to keep the city poor, uneducated and voting Democrat.

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The minute a Dem wins in a city, the city dies.

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Even if the developers obtained the Logan group's backing, they still would have to deal with City Council, which is expected today to give final approval to an ordinance imposing a 125-foot height restriction on all buildings in northwest Center City.

If I were on the city council, I would revisit that dumb 125-foot rule.