On her first official day as the owner of South Philly’s Bok Building, Lindsey Scannapieco gathered her team of four, grabbed a six-pack, climbed up to the former school’s roof — and waited for the sunset.

It’s wild to think about now, but that breathtaking view — 360 degrees of Philly’s skyline — wasn’t even a selling point when Scout, Scannapieco’s real estate development firm, purchased the building in 2015. “We had toured the building,” she recalls, “but always during the workday, always between 9 and 5. We were planning to open up this bar on top of the building — and we had never seen the sunset.”

That sunset has since become as iconic a photo opportunity as the Rocky steps or the Broad Street median in front of City Hall. (Don’t believe it? Check this list of Philly’s most Instag

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