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Condos To Block Out Sun?

Posted by: David Gest

29 March 2006 - 8:00am

Local residents protest a towering proposed development plan in Philadelphia.

Donna West "told developers that she had calculated that if they built their planned 500-foot-tall 'Barnes Tower' condominium, the sun would never again shine on her rowhouse near 20th and Spring Garden Streets.

West was not alone. Among the 500 people who crowded the round sanctuary of Highway Tabernacle Church at 18th and Spring Garden were more than a few who worried that their city of neighborhoods was about to become too much like Manhattan's shadowy canyons."

"Shadows, blocked views, half-million-dollar price tags. Renaissance and the glitter of new buildings and affluent new residents don't come easily in the city of rowhouse neighborhoods."

Full Story: Sunlight concerns cast shadow over condo plan
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 2006
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