“The neighbors are a crucial player in this conversation,” said Goldfein, who is married to David Lee Preston, an editor at The Inquirer, and who serves as the executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania. “We’re not asking them to approve it — though that would be great — as much as we want to be able to give them all the information we have and have an ongoing discussion with them, so they will be as comfortable as they can be with the facility.”