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Market Street landlord preps for Phils parade

Landlord HRPT prepares for the Phillies to parade down Market St.


   When the Phillies parade past the Market Street skyscrapers today, the neighborhood's biggest landlord plans to place large men at key places, to keep the crowd and the World Series winners supplied with one of the basic ingredients of any citywide championship celebration.

No, not beer."The windows don't open. So we're putting people on the roofs to dump confetti," said David J. Campoli, regional boss at HRPT Properties Trust.HRPT owns the twin Centre Square towers, pyramid-topped Mellon Plaza, and black-glass-fronted 1600 Market St. (popularly known as the Darth Vader building).

Above the street, landlords and tenants will hold parade-watching parties from street-fronting suites. They're the best seats in town, if you want to observe ecstatic street life but stop short of messy full participation. (Market Street storeowners hope to avoid the broken glass and student riots that marked the impromptu celebration on South Broad on Wednesday night.)

  And you don't have to pay ballpark prices. Just know somebody.That's Philly. (From today's PhillyDeals column in the print Inquirer)