Toll Bros. plans to nearly double the height of its
planned Jewelers Row condo tower project that entails the demolition of five
buildings on the storied Center City shopping street.
Toll has filed an amendment to its zoning application
that would allow construction of a 29-story tower with 109 condo units, Tim
Spreitzer, a spokesman for the Horsham-based developer's 's City Living
division, said in an e-mail on Monday.
Previous plans called for a 16-story tower with 80 units.
The revised plan's denser development "is permitted
within the current zoning for the site, as well as it being in character for
other developments within the Washington Square area," Spreitzer said.
The plan for the larger tower was first reported by the Philadelphia
Business Journal
The proposed change comes amid controversy over the demolition of existing
Jeweler's Row structures where the condo would be built. The Philadelphia
Historical Commission postponed a decision last month whether to list
three of those structures on the city’s Register of Historic Places.
Source: Philly.com
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