1) No action should be taken to enter into any agreement with a private developer for the sale or lease of the historic Family Court building on Logan Square until there is a fully financed, approved, and construction-ready plan for a new Family Court facility.

2) The historic Family Court building should not be sold to a private developer.  Following the sound precedent of the Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall, any redevelopment of Family Court should be structured as a long-term lease under continued public ownership.

3) The building contains seven historic ceremonial spaces whose architectural and artistic value is extraordinary.  These should be listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and protected from adverse alteration or demolition.

4) No addition should be allowed on top of the Family Court building that would be visible from any part of Logan Square or the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

5) The building's New Deal-era murals, sculpture and stained glass windows should remain in public ownership.  If it is necessary to transfer ownership to an appropriate cultural institution, they should remain "on loan" in their original setting inside Family Court.


By joining the Friends of Family Court, I endorse the Preservation Alliance's five principles for Family Court and urge Mayor Nutter and City Council to endorse them as well: