Tomorrow: First step toward Market East "billboard boulevard" up for review

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Tomorrow: First step toward Market East "billboard boulevard" up for review

POSTED: Thursday, September 13, 2012, 10:05 AM

Remember how Councilman Frank DiCicco, before retiring, got City Council to make the Market Street East Advertising District, aka the would-be Times Square of Philadelphia, with digital billboards lining the buildings? Well, the owners of the historic Lit Brothers building (which now houses a not-so-historic Ross) want to get on board. Tomorrow, the Historical Commission votes on whether to let them put in large-format, animated, non-accessory signage. (Above, via Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, a video rendering.) The Commission's Architectural Committee has already recommended nixing the project.

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