Philadelphia 2035 (York, Perkasie: best neighborhoods, models, consultant)

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by Pine to Vine

The Fillmore (re)opens tonight with Hall and Oates: Big Sound Check

This can only serve to speed up gentrification in Fishtown.

Pop quiz for all the newish and/or younger folks on this board:

Where was the original Electric Factory located?

Don't even think about cheating! Lol

[kidphilly]

wasnt it on race? by the black banana

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by kidphilly

wasnt it on race? by the black banana

No.

It was on the NW corner of 22nd and Arch. There are townhouses there now.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by kyb01

No.

It was on the NW corner of 22nd and Arch. There are townhouses there now.

LOL, I wanted to go there to see several of the British acts & my mother would not buy that at all because some of her friends had told her about banning the Electric Factory for their kids because of proximity to the Troc.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by southbound_295

LOL, I wanted to go there to see several of the British acts & my mother would not buy that at all because some of her friends had told her about banning the Electric Factory for their kids because of proximity to the Troc.

An old friend of mine did sound mixing at the old EF. Lol @ the Troc remark since it was blocks away from the old EF.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by kyb01

An old friend of mine did sound mixing at the old EF. Lol @ the Troc remark since it was blocks away from the old EF.

I tried to tell my mother that, but she wasn't buying it. (not that she had 1st hand information)

[gwillyfromphilly]

Nashville developer selected to build first UCity Square apartment building

[thedirtypirate]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/up...es-change.html

Five years ago, Mayor Michael A. Nutter proposed a tax on soda in Philadelphia, and the industry rose up to beat it back.
Soda lobbyists made campaign contributions to local politicians and staged rallies, with help from allies like the Teamsters union and local bottling companies. To burnish its image, the industry donated $10 million to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
It worked: The soda tax proposal never got out of a City Council committee.
It’s a familiar story. Soda taxes have also flopped in New York State and San Francisco. So far, only superliberal Berkeley, Calif., has succeeded in adopting such a measure over industry objections.
The obvious lesson from Philadelphia is that the soda industry is winning the policy battles over the future of its product. But the bigger picture is that soda companies are losing the war.

The change is happening faster in Philadelphia than in the country as a whole. Daily soda consumption among teenagers, a group closely tracked by federal researchers, dropped sharply — by 24 percent — from 2007 to 2013, compared with about 20 percent for the country. Last month, the city Department of Public Health reported a sustained decline in childhood obesity over the last seven years.

[cpomp]

3.0 University Place Coming Soon to 41st & Market | Naked Philly

Another big development in West Philly.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by cpomp

3.0 University Place Coming Soon to 41st & Market | Naked Philly

Another big development in West Philly.

Wow, this is amazing. If someone had told me a couple of years ago that this would happen on that corner I would have laughed.