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Changing Skyline: Adding coffee to the culture

When you think about it, the development sagas of Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Independence Mall are awfully similar. Each started out with the aim of concentrating Philadelphia's cultural power in one part of the city. And after that imperial ambition was thwarted, each remained militantly opposed to allowing displays of commerce to interrupt its vision of grandeur. For years, it was nearly impossible to buy so much as a bottle of water as you slogged between widely spaced monuments.

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