Wednesday update
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Nov. 7
Check out www.planphilly.com tonight for a breaking news report, including video, of the Center City District’s illumination of five significant buildings on South Broad Street. That’s the Ritz-Carlton in the rendering above.
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Matt Ruben, a college teacher and community activist who lives in Northern Liberties, challenges PennPraxis critic Michael Sklaroff in a Daily News opinion piece.
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In a letter published by the Daily News, Craig Schelter, a former executive director of the City Planning Commission and executive vice president of the Phila. Industrial Development Corp. and Michael Sklaroff, chairman of the real-estate department at the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, and chairman of the Phila. Historical Commission take issue with the vision for the Central Delaware Riverfront being developed by PennPraxis.
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