NIMBY’s BOOOOOOOO.

Starr has talked heavily about a dine-in move venue, possibly with separate stairs (elevator) to an upstairs continental style lounge? Nothing too loud or too Venga Loung-ish. Seems like you could fit something like this. Anything is better than the homeless people hanging out on the stairs all day. I don’t know how the commonwealth fought against this.

the commonwealth didn’t fight against this….the city was exited about this project …. a certain employee of Goldman of Properties who lives in the “White Building” across the street what the primary opponent of this project. he complained of potential noise…..!! he moved onto a major commercial district in Center City! and he’s concerned about noise….go live in Gladwyne or Haverford if you want Noise NIMBYISM won out again

the commonwealth didn’t fight against this….the city was exited about this project …. a certain employee of Goldman of Properties who lives in the “White Building” across the street what the primary opponent of this project. he complained of potential noise…..!! he moved onto a major commercial district in Center City! and he’s concerned about noise….go live in Gladwyne or Haverford if you want Noise NIMBYISM won out again

Ohh, thanks for the clarification

I’m pretty sure this passed zoning. The develop seems to have had trouble getting the cash together.

Wasn’t NIMBYS
http://planphilly.com/news/notebook/updated-developers-planning-turn-former-bank-pool-hall-get-deadline

Yes it was nimby’s …they slowed down the project…..and the developer moved on ………

[...] Plans for turning the fabulous, but vacant bank building at 12th and Chestnut into a billiard hall/r… Naked Philly writes that the property is “available for lease at an affordable $200K/year, triple net. Which, of course, begs the question, what is name of all that is holy can possibly come into this property at something that resembles the asking price, that will do the kind of business that’s needed to meet the rent and won’t be tossed aside by the neighbors who like the neighborhood just the way it is?” Thoughts? [...]

If the noisy rooftop deck was the issue, wouldn’t the simple fix be to encapsulate the roof area? A noise complaint seems a bit benign to halt a project of this stature.

Did this guy seriously expect quiet in this location? It’s a shame this will remain vacant

[...] Naked Philly doesn’t want you to forget the potential of 1200 Chestnut, the Horace Trumbuaer bank building that had its creative reuse denie… [...]

Did you bother reading the article? The developer got legislative relief (not zoning) for the project and then never did anything.

yes I read the article………..by the time the legislative relief happened the project was two years old………unused financing tends to evaporate…..

On the 1200 Bank website, the first announcement was in August 2010. The spot zoning bill was passed in April of 2011. Unless I’m missing a much earlier annoucnemnt, the problem was with the developer, not the city or NIMBYs. Maybe the NIMBY slowed it down by a couple of months, but if the funding was that inflexible, this project wasn’t happening regardless.

The stink from homeless people loitering on the steps of this building is UNBEARABLE, just got a whiff of it today (once again). It is interesting how few loud talking people would “represent” the neighborhood, while “silent majority” never speaks out. There got to be some reaction for this kind of action, yet I’ve never seen one.

Do you know anything about real estate development?……….I guess you think the announcement and website creation correlate to when the project actually started moving? wrong…this project began in 2008

LOL. I’m closer to this than you think.