The Future of Francisville

The Philadelphia neighborhood of Francisville is about to get an urban makeover, but two competing visions have very different ideas of what that means.

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July 28, 2009, 5:00 AM PDT

By Tim Halbur

"The city's Office of Housing and Community Design is wrapping up a competition to select a developer for an oddly shaped, 1.5-acre site at 19th and Wylie Streets, a block north of Fairmount Avenue. For a change, the choice is between two excellent developers, each offering a progressive, urban-minded vision of what Philadelphia should look like in the 21st century. Yet their definitions of what's progressive and what's urban are poles apart."

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