Step out of the art deco cathedral that is Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station and you see a neighborhood-wide construction site. Stand beneath the station’s West Portico, and its columns frame images of cranes, steel beams, and glass towers, amid a park of redwood trees and century-old limestone and terra cotta. A new skyline is rising in America’s sixth-largest city, where, until the mid-1980s, a gentleman’s agreement dictated that buildings couldn’t surpass the height of William Penn’s statue atop City Hall.
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