The quandary that has burst unexpectedly out into public view is the next significant, bold step up and forward for our very important natural history institution.
What to do? Where to go? How to be smart? How to embrace the obvious?
The brilliant solution, in front of our noses since the Family Court moved, has been for the Academy of Natural Sciences to move across Logan Circle into the former Family Court building and onto the lot behind to expand, modernize, reorganize their research facilities and to reposition their exhibitions. Most important for everyone is to take and preserve …
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The quandary that has burst unexpectedly out into public view is the next significant, bold step up and forward for our very important natural history institution.
What to do? Where to go? How to be smart? How to embrace the obvious?
The brilliant solution, in front of our noses since the Family Court moved, has been for the Academy of Natural Sciences to move across Logan Circle into the former Family Court building and onto the lot behind to expand, modernize, reorganize their research facilities and to reposition their exhibitions. Most important for everyone is to take and preserve the cherished diorama over there, too. Then, the buildings the Academy has owned for generations become just right for our Moore College to expand.
Win, win, win, win. Strengthen Logan Circle, strengthen Moore, strengthen the Parkway, strengthen our beloved city by dramatically improving the spaces for the admired-around-the-world Academy, and strengthen our city by preserving that magnificent Family Court building, copied from those anchoring the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a lineage of great importance for our own Parkway.
Let us encourage the bright leadership at the Academy, the very experienced lady loaned from the city, our forward thinking mayor and Drexel’s leadership to do the “speed dating” required to quickly resolve our quandary, embraced together at last, and waltz arm in arm up to the altar.
Gardner A. Cadwalader
Chestnut Hill
