I appreciate your position and I hope I'm not beating a dead horse, but my personal dream is that there is an 11 story extended stay hotel built within UC, but not at 40th and Pine.? In addition, I dream that the 40th and Pine site is developed by Campus Apartments and Tom Lussenhop as a high end restaurant with 25 car parking and either classroom or community space on the second and third floor.? That way the City gets lots of construction and service jobs along with the multitude of fees that come along with development.?
The community is enriched by the development and the 40th and Pine/Woodland Terrace neighborhood is preserved and enhanced. You and I?might be saying the same thing. Guy -----Original Message----- From: Anthony West <[email protected]> To: UnivCity listserv <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 9:28 am Subject: Re: [UC] Campus Inn Guy,? ? I don't disagree at all with these points of yours, and I didn't actually contend either of those "misconceptions". This is a big city and a big neighborhood, wherein all sorts of development possibilities will arise over time. And any real-estate parcel tends to have multiple possibilities, depending on how you fiddle with it.? ? It is true, nonetheless, that questions of new job and business generation will be the chief *strictly economic* concerns that city planners will weigh when evaluating this or any similar project in our area. Growth control is not, repeat not, a top priority for the City of Philadelphia -- a city that has been losing jobs and residents for 50 years -- as it enters 2009. Just look at the City's budget and do the math yourself. This isn't something I'm advocating, just something I'm noticing.? ? -- Tony West? ? > Thanks for clearing up some of the confusion around the question posed > by > SH.? >? > I have one question about the facts in your post: your last paragraph > > contains the core mis-conception about this Hotel- that if this > project is > not built at 40th and Pine that it will never get > built. In addition, the > mis-conception is that there will be jobs > lost and families will have no > where to stay while their loved ones > are at extended stays in area > hospitals. (In fact there is a three > story, extended stay hotel being built > on 39th and Spruce right now!)? >? >? > I hear the same economic argument in your post and I wanted to point > out > that none of the economic problems that you mention (loss of jobs > and lack > of hotel rooms) will occur if the hotel is built elsewhere.? >? > Guy? ? ----? You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the? list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see? <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.?
