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Old 04-28-2015, 10:18 AM
 
Location: New York City
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For how long, though? That tipping point could be reached very quickly. Everything seems to be speeding up exponentially.
If your talking about CC and surrounding yes, things are speeding up, but Philadelphia County is a big county and very impoverished.

People sometimes just look at CC and surrounding and think Philly it is on its way to the top, when the city/county as a whole unit still has a long way to go.
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Old 04-29-2015, 11:07 PM
 
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How did West Philly pay for a new high school? The money wouldn't seem to be there.
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Old 04-30-2015, 08:49 AM
 
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How did West Philly pay for a new high school? The money wouldn't seem to be there.
How did W. Philly pay for it? You mean how did the School Dist. of Phila. pay for it.? Good question. Schools have closed in the district like UC High School and the elementary school that was adjacent to it. Drexel bought the land where those school were(there's a lot construction going on currently). How much did Drexel pay for that land and how much did the district get? Btw, Penn bought the old W. Philly High building.
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Old 04-30-2015, 10:17 AM
 
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How did W. Philly pay for it? You mean how did the School Dist. of Phila. pay for it.? Good question. Schools have closed in the district like UC High School and the elementary school that was adjacent to it. Drexel bought the land where those school were(there's a lot construction going on currently). How much did Drexel pay for that land and how much did the district get? Btw, Penn bought the old W. Philly High building.
So they financed the new one by selling the old one first? Okay, I guess it makes some kind of sense...

Hopefully Upper Darby can do the same.
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Old 04-30-2015, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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If your talking about CC and surrounding yes, things are speeding up, but Philadelphia County is a big county and very impoverished.

People sometimes just look at CC and surrounding and think Philly it is on its way to the top, when the city/county as a whole unit still has a long way to go.
BTW, I need to correct a stat you put out either upthread or on another thread dealing with the city's poverty rate.

Philadelphia is the most impoverished of the nation's 10 largest cities, but the poverty rate in the city (which is coterminous with Philadelphia County) is 28 percent, not 50+.

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So they financed the new one by selling the old one first? Okay, I guess it makes some kind of sense...

Hopefully Upper Darby can do the same.
No.

The School District built the new high school (on the site of the old West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys), then it sold the old one. And before it built the new one, it had already converted several nearby existing junior high schools (="middle schools") to high schools, thus enabling the new high school to be much smaller than the old one.

The School District has a capital budget like most public bodies. Operating budget deficits usually do not derail capital budget projects.
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Old 04-30-2015, 01:54 PM
 
Location: New York City
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BTW, I need to correct a stat you put out either upthread or on another thread dealing with the city's poverty rate.

Philadelphia is the most impoverished of the nation's 10 largest cities, but the poverty rate in the city (which is coterminous with Philadelphia County) is 28 percent, not 50+.

I don't remember saying 50+%, I knew it was around 1/3, I was mistaken if I said 50 before.
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