Daily News | Why 20 dinosaurs showed up on top of two Center City high-rises
Elizabeth Dobbins was at a friend’s apartment in Center City recently when she looked out of the window and saw “life-size” dinosaurs on the roof of the north Riverwalk apartment tower along the banks of the Schuylkill.
Among the prehistoric beasts roaming the urban rooftop were an allosaurus, a brontosaurus, and a triceratops.Dobbins used to work as a journalist and her “lizard brain” still looks for good stories, “especially about big lizards, I guess,” she said.“Mostly, though, I was just really curious. Was this someone’s eccentric collection? Guerilla marketing for the zoo installation? A temporary home for cast-off dinos?” Dobbins asked.
Turns out, she’s not the only one who had questions. Another reader who’d spotted the dinosaurs atop the high-rise apartments at 23rd and Arch Streets reached out to ask about them through The Inquirer’sEven residents of the Riverwalk apartments, who’d seen the dinosaurs hoisted onto their multiuse rooftop via crane on June 6, had no idea why they were there.
One resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said no information about the dinosaurs was distributed to residents by , the company that manages the apartments. One day they just woke up and found themselves living with dinosaurs, as if they’d become unwitting participants in some newLouise Giordano, senior vice president of PMC Property Group, seemed surprised when I called to ask about the dinosaurs, and even more surprised I considered them worth of a story, as if dinosaurs appearing on rooftops is something that happens every day here in Philly.
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