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It took $200 million and a 10-year legal fight to move the Barnes Foundation five miles from Lower Merion to the Parkway in Center City.
At last, the new Barnes on the Parkway is ready.
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The Barnes Foundation moved to its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia in part because it had a neighbor problem in Lower Merion.
Now its new neighbors are wondering how the Barnes will fit in.
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