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		<title>Plans to rejuvenate aging Gallery would turn it 'inside out'</title>
		<description>Discuss Plans to rejuvenate aging Gallery would turn it 'inside out'</description>
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			<title>Best Practices</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I fully agree, I have to wonder what some good examples of urban malls that cater to a wide socioeconomic spectrum might be. Is anyone aware of any?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Devin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:42:24 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Correction</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gallery I opened in 1977, not 1974.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NS</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:27:48 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Agreed Devin</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Devin, your point is spot on. As much as I enjoy seeing Center City's rejuvenation it cannot be denied that much of it caters to a demographic not necessarily drawn to a place like Market East. Private developers and private enterprise do what they do for profit and cater to those who can afford which is why Walnut Street is what it is and other commercial thoroughfares in this city aren't. Nothing at all wrong with that because every city should have that but a place like The Gallery, which by its nature should have more cross appeal shouldn't switch sides of the spectrum. Many people but particularly those new to Philadelphia or upscale types don't find it welcoming. To turn it into King of Prussia makes an equally unhealthy turn. This is a city of many faces and many types and one reason that The Gallery is less than what it could be is because it doesn't often act that way. Opening the space out to the street is a start. The synergy that would come from concurrent developments on Market East would start to bring the mall more towards the middle. It's not a neighborhood mall - it's in the middle of a great American city and should look and feel that way.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Stephen Ives</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:18:05 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Grand Plans</title>
			<link>http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/47946-plans-to-rejuvenate-aging-gallery-would-turn-it-inside-out#comment-49938</link>
			<description><![CDATA[That being said, I would like to see a grand plan laid out for this space, such as an outdoor pedestrian shopping street or plaza. I hope that PREIT works closely with CCD to create a fabulous place. Given the location, this has the potential to become a central place in Philly, let's hope they hire some architects who can really come up with something impressive.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Devin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:57:26 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>I'm Cautiously Optimistic</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have been really torn with Market East. I don't think there is anyone that thinks the mall does not require a makeover, but I am worried about some of the suggestions for the space which seem to point to a massive up-scaling of the mall. Market East is very accessible, and it would be a shame to see redesign seek to throw lower and middle income individuals out of Center City, instead of providing a thriving commercial corridor that everyone can frequent. Such corridors are not unheard of, the redevelopment around the Columbia Heights metro station in DC is one of the best examples of this. In DC, they focused on getting retailers that can appeal to a wide demographic, such as a major supermarket and an urban Target, both of which should absolutely be considered as options for the Market East redesign.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Devin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:48:10 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Common sense buried and rediscovered...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I always wondered why, at the same time when there was a growing interest in allowing bars and restaurants to be open to the street, to see inside, to end the foolishness of the old blue laws and when there was the beginning of interest in sidewalk cafes here 30 years ago or more, that the huge Gallery was built totally denying all of that urban interest and becoming an awful big blind box right where we needed life, activity and vibrancy. It was all a naive bamboozlement back then that has ossified the vibrancy of a large section of the city. Seemed uncivilized and backwards to build the Gallery closed off from the city and from the streets and this article indicates that the managers of the Gallery are finally, too, realizing that we really do live in an interesting and vibrant city and that hiding from it was not the most enlightened form of urban architectural design. (However, the University of Pennsylvania's campus designs back then did the exact same thing by turning its back to the streets; the University also finally figured out that that had been a rather insensitive and uncivilized and not very wise architectural concept as well.) It is odd how the most reasonable of concepts gets buried for decades and then people marvel in surprise when the new common sense is found out to be the same old common sense that so many people had just ignored, denigrated and scoffed at for decades. As the world turns....]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gardner</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:04:31 --400</pubDate>
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