Germantown and Graver's Lane??

[huckjr]

Does anyone know what's being built or what the expansion is at Germantown and gravers lane directly across from the iron hill brewery?

[Worm]

The building where the sidewalk has been unnecessarily closed for over a year forcing pedestrians into the street with no advanced warning of a closed sidewalk? good question.

[huckjr]

The building where the sidewalk has been unnecessarily closed for over a year forcing pedestrians into the street with no advanced warning of a closed sidewalk? good question.

LMAO, that's the exact one!!!

[stonefly]

It is a Bowman project. I think the first floor will be retail with condos or apartments above.

The building looks great but it has been under construction forever.

[Worm]

Isn't that the same developer who is going to be working on the much bigger project at the old ford dealership?

Maybe you could express your concerns at one of the following meetings:

Development Review Committee
When Tue, July 17, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Where Chestnut Hill Hospital, 8835 Germantown Avenue, Main Level Conference Room

Aesthetics Committee
When Tue, July 24, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Where Town Hall, 8434 Germantown Avenue

Land Use Planning & Zoning (LUPZ) Committee
When Thu, August 2, 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Where Chestnut Hill Hospital, 8835 Germantown Avenue, Main Level Conference Room

[m.leland]

…There's an Aesthetics Committee?

Who is on this committee?

[seand]

…There's an Aesthetics Committee?

Who is on this committee?

Aestheticians?

Well, it would be funny.

[Tocchet]

Richard Snowden is putting a lot of his money where his mouth is and will be living in the new development at Gravers.

[Worm]

"The interesting major construction at Germantown Avenue and Gravers Lane, informally known as the Snowden Mansion, lends an interesting mix of architecture to a community generally built around fairly narrow standards. One outspoken individual, upon seeing the now close-to-finished multi-story imaginative structure claimed it looked very much like a “landed Pirate Ship.”

Appearances lend to speculation that storefronts will return to Gravers Lane." - Mt. Airy News

But the real question is: When will pedestrians be able to return to Gravers Lane?

[NCtransplant]

But the real question is: When will pedestrians be able to return to Gravers Lane?

Aren't there sidewalks on both sides of the street (or am I missing some subtlety in the question)?

[Worm]

(you're missing the part about having to jaywalk if you're not familiar with the closed sidewalk with no advanced warning situation)

[Kukla65th]

They've done a beautiful job with the property - the Gravers facade is spectacular.

[billy ross]

Aestheticians?

Well, it would be funny.

I've long considered myself to be an aesthete.

My wife and I were scratching out heads trying to figure out what used to be at that site. Any help here?

[Mt. Airy Brewer]

The building where the sidewalk has been unnecessarily closed for over a year forcing pedestrians into the street with no advanced warning of a closed sidewalk? good question.

There is a sign on each end of the sidewalk that reads "Sidewalk Closed." Could you not figure out to cross the street? It has been there and is still there this morning.

[seand]

I've long considered myself to be an aesthete.

But I was imagining a committee of people who have the job title of aestheticians (google it), make up kits in hand, tromping down Germantown Ave. making Chestnut Hill more beautiful, one face at a time. It was bad joke that hinges on catching a job title some would describe as being as euphamistic as "building engineer."

[bungee]

I think its an amazing building. I like it because it looks like some of the best late 19th century architecture in CH without being kitchy, the would-be wag's comment quoted above calling it a "landed pirate ship" notwithstanding. There was a derelict faux colonial strip of shops on the site previously.

[Worm]

It's a sad world when people think it's OK to keep a public sidewalk closed for over a year.

[Mt. Airy Brewer]

It's a sad world when people think it's OK to keep a public sidewalk closed for over a year.

Why are you so upset about a sidewalk being closed? Deal with it. Use the other side of the street. It's called construction. This magical thing has been happening for, I don't know, thousands of years.

[NCtransplant]

It's a sad world when people think it's OK to keep a public sidewalk closed for over a year.

A year's worth of missing sidewalk is part of an inconvenient world. A sad world is one with global warming, the 2012 Phillies, et al.

[bungee]

It's a sad world when people think it's OK to keep a public sidewalk closed for over a year.

Only in Chestnut Hill could half a block of closed sidewalk (when there is ample sidewalk to use parallel to the same stretch and directly across a narrow street - cause such sorrowful dispondance.

If this is truly a cause for sadness, one wonders how the displaced in Darfur and the Sudan manage...