Originally Posted by Hendi

Ugh, when is someone going to just tear down Kennedy House, what the heck is a that disgusting looking building doing in the central business district anyway. How on earth can the residents even feign suprise let alone object when people want to build sky scrapers in the neighborhood with all the other skycrapers in it, did they just not realize that that's where they were moving?

Edit: just read that letter, yes, why on earth would you want to move a large number of high paying office jobs into a building right up the street and thereby increase the property values in the neighborhood and have a whole lot more businesses open all around you. The amount of office space in Philly has basically been stagnant for a decade (even Comcast has been offset to a large degree by the conversion of other office towers to residential and hotel space) which is one prime reason why growth in high paying jobs in the suburbs has been far outpacing that in the city. If people don't want office space built next to all the other office space then where, prey tell, do they think it should go?