To: Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia
Cancel the construction of the Bread Street Estates and help preserve Philadelphia's Old City.
The Bread Street Estates is an ultra-modern townhouse project that is due to be constructed in Philadelphia's Old City. It has clearly been approved for construction by Philadelphia's City Government and is to be placed alongside historical buildings from the 18th and 19th century. The following is a petition for the Mayor to cancel this project. Thank you for contributing to the preservation of one of our nation's most historically-significant old cities. -- Read more; see pictures and the letter to Michael Nutter here: http://phillyresident.blogspot.com/2014/06/cancellation-of-bread-street-estates-in.html
Why is this important?
The Old City of Philadelphia is a historical district and, much like the old cities in all other countries in the world—i.e. Charleston, Montréal, Québec and those all through Europe and the Maghreb—, it should maintain a "historical" aesthetic. People from all over the world travel to Philadelphia in order to see the the Old City—the place in which the Founding Fathers had first deliberated and set the groundwork for this country. The tourism that the Old City attracts is a source of considerable income for the city and I believe that, if Mayor Nutter is to approve such ultra-modern and unattractive housing projects, as the one that is now about to be implemented, he is contributing to the defacement of one our country's most visited historical districts.
Not only is this project going to be a blight to the historical feel of the Old City, but it is also going to set a precedent for the construction similar housing projects in the future and, ultimately and in turn, for the defacement of the entire neighborhood. Thus far, most of the condominiums and estates in Old City proper have maintained a more neutral and antiquated look, but this one is radically modern and clearly does not belong in this part of the neighborhood.
Not only is this project going to be a blight to the historical feel of the Old City, but it is also going to set a precedent for the construction similar housing projects in the future and, ultimately and in turn, for the defacement of the entire neighborhood. Thus far, most of the condominiums and estates in Old City proper have maintained a more neutral and antiquated look, but this one is radically modern and clearly does not belong in this part of the neighborhood.