We the people of Philadelphia, united in concern for our fellow and future Philadelphians, call upon Mayor Kenney to stop any and all developments by Gagandeep Lakhmna in our city. 

For more than a decade, Gagandeep Lakhmna has wrought havoc on our city, racking up a lengthy list of failed projects, court cases, unpaid contractors,​ unsafe and unpermitted construction and demolition​, deceptive marketing and even illegal evictions. 

And yet, despite being sued by the City and even held in contempt of court, he continues to build controversial large projects. As we speak his construction company Greenpointe is planning a hulking apartment tower in our neighborhood of small rowhomes. The project has been decried by the community and even called “disgusting” and “ridiculous” by city planning professionals. Worse still, the site housed a historic hosiery mill ripe for adaptive reuse, which instead is being haphazardly demolished, leading to multiple safety violations and even debris falling into active roadways.

This trail of destruction exposes a failure by the city to hold rogue developers accountable.

We demand that this developer’s activities be immediately halted while the city comprehensively investigates his past actions and considers broader measures to hold irresponsible developers accountable and protect residents negatively affected by these bad practices.

Our City deserves better than developers like Gagandeep Lakhmna.

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Build Like You Live Here is a volunteer group of neighbors fighting against irresponsible development and unethical developers in the city of Philadelphia. We bring attention to, and actively engage in, the development process in Philadelphia through advocacy, information sharing and promoting action items amongst our neighbors. We are committed to organizing against harmful, negligent, and predatory overdevelopment in all Philadelphia neighborhoods by actively engaging in the Civic Design Review process.