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Philly won’t pave (artist’s) paradise to put up a parking lot p4
2/7/2015 | Real Estate Blog
It took two years, a team of dedicated lawyers and a lot of imagination to do it, but Philadelphia artist James Dupree beat city hall this past December. In 2012, the city took the fairly cynical step of delivering its declaration of taking just a few days before the move would have been prohibited (see our Jan. 30 post). The notice that Dupree’s studio in Mantua had been seized under the power of eminent domain spurred the artist into action.