At a hearing Monday over the bankruptcy filed by a private developer at the center of the stymied Philadelphia family courthouse project, an attorney for the Philadelphia Parking Authority said that if the litigation is not resolved by November’s general election the new courthouse probably won’t be built.
Northwest 15th Street Associates, a corporate entity created by developer Donald W. Pulver to build the family courthouse on behalf of the First Judicial District, filed for bankruptcy June 23 after the original structure of the deal to build a family courthouse with $200 million in state capital funds at a site owned below ground by the parking authority and mortgaged aboveground by Northwest unraveled in the wake of the revelation that attorney Jeffrey B. Rotwitt, who was retained by the court system to search for building locations and as a tenant representative, ended up on the other side of the project by striking a fee-sharing deal with Pulver.
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