Damonabnormal, I wish I could blame the NLNA for all of this, but really they are only Bart's scapegoat.

The thing that is holding up this project is two things:

-The toxic land
-The zoning changes.

Bart probably knew that the 3 tower project with townhouses wouldn't work with the declining buying market, specially the townhouses on top of the Schmidt's toxic soil. So he waited it out with the zoning changes till the time was right.

So during all that time he used the NLNA as the reason why it was going slow. But really he was just waiting for the perfect storm to push his new plan. He Pushed it(along with a new Hotel plan), but sadly it didn't work out in his favor(specially with the old guard going out a lot quicker the expected).

So here we are with Two of the Five project finished(Liberty Walk, Hancock Square).

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Next month, Bart gets another hearing in front of the zoning board.....

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a k-mart and a cheesecake factory sharing the same parking lot? lol. how about barts be puttin up future section 8 housing all over that hood.with the exception of a few industrial re do's all his crap is high density, overpriced junk. when this economy slows in a real way and all the overpaid consultants and not needed support staff that comprises most of the area, including all the so called artisans that will no longer be able to sell there stuff to the now broke ass , save our money now neighbors his junk is goin SECTION 8. and when you complain bout it its gonna be a racial /economic tip. you knows he gonna get paid, yo!

Liberty City I assume?

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"Power does what it wants." - George Carlin

Can anyone give me an update on the details of the NLNA meeting last night?

EXACTLY.......Crap and it won't last 20 years. I'd call it temp housing.

Here's the latest update. Looks very promising and a substantial improvement over earlier proposals, IMO:
http://www.planphilly.com/node/3180

Hopefully NLNA has a reasonable response and helps the project move forward.

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Wow! Chop down that 26 stories to 18 and I'm all for it!

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"Power does what it wants." - George Carlin

so how did you arrive at 18 as the magical height rather than 26?

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Because 1 plus 8 equals 9, which of course is the square of 3. Now, 3 has always had positive associations (see: three wishes, three bears, three wise men, etc.) so 9 simply magnifies them. Essentially, having 18 floors takes the magical connections of 9 and splits them into a ratio of 1 to 8. Eight, you'll notice, is the cube of 2, which is also the factor between 9 (the magical number) and 18 (the number of stories). It's pretty obvious, really.