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The Future of Francisville

Posted by: Tim Halbur
Thanks to: ArchNewsNow
28 July 2009 - 5:00am

The Philadelphia neighborhood of Francisville is about to get an urban makeover, but two competing visions have very different ideas of what that means.

"The city's Office of Housing and Community Design is wrapping up a competition to select a developer for an oddly shaped, 1.5-acre site at 19th and Wylie Streets, a block north of Fairmount Avenue. For a change, the choice is between two excellent developers, each offering a progressive, urban-minded vision of what Philadelphia should look like in the 21st century. Yet their definitions of what's progressive and what's urban are poles apart."

Full Story: Changing Skyline: Francisville face-off on urban design
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 2009
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