Reading planners reject cost cutting proposal at Boscov's hotel

Thanks to the Reading City Planners, Our City Reading’s hotel, under the affiliated name “Reading Hospitality,” won’t be able cut corners on the make-or-break hotel-convention center project in the 700 block of Penn Street.

It's going to be big.

At the very end of a story Saturday all the way back on B4 is a paragraph:

“Planners also denied a request by Reading Hospitality LLC to eliminate some landscape and streetscape plans for the Double Tree [sic] Hotel and garage project in the 700 block of Penn Street. Developers had asked to remove some patterned brick along the curb and landscaping due to costs and maintenance.”

The city needs all the patterned brick and landscaping along Penn Street it can get.