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200,000 square feet apartment building proposed for an empty lot between Friendship and Pine St. Friendship Partners Stealth planning is bad for everyone. Would not the public want some heads-up on such a major intrusion into the cityscape as a 12-story apartment block in the heart of the Jewelry District? The City may indeed be reviewing plans for the steel and glass behemoth to rise on Friendship and Pine Streets. But for the public, the unveiling of the project was an announcement in the pre...

Apartments for 155 Chestnut Street. Courtesy: Pebb Capital The student apartment block proposed for 155 Chestnut Street in the Jewelry District was a bad idea at first, and little–not even lopping the height from twelve stories to nine–has made it any better. It is an inappropriate and over-scaled turkey. Like the Fane Tower, it is the sort of project that epitomizes the citys failure to understand and capitalize upon its history and to respond sensitively to its many existing urban assets....