Mention of the T&T bar once again raised eyebrows at the Frankford Civic meeting on Thursday night.  Neighbors have been watching with concern as work has been going on at the now closed bar at Margaret and Hawthorne Streets. It has been not quite a year since young Christopher Spence lost his life there in a senseless shooting.   Jason Dawkins, Councilwoman Sanchez representative at the meeting assured everyone that the building was not ever going to open up as a bar again.  The building is for sale and the community will have input as to its future use.

In other news at the meeting, the representative of the owner of Torresdale Appliance and Furniture (4571 Torresdale Ave.) presented their zoning case.  The use of the building has changed and they are looking for support from the Civic.  They board voted unanimously to

support their application.

Stephanie Clymer made a presentation on behalf of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership.  From Manny Citron of PhillyRising, they are working on a community garden or gardens in Frankford that will hopefully be available in the Spring.  From Edgardo Gonzalez of Tony Payton’s office, there is still interest from the The Center for Urban Theological Studiesin taking over the old Frankford Community Y building.  No decision has been made as yet.

The next Frankford Civic meeting will be on March 1st at 7PM at Aria Health.

 

It was a fairly short meeting last Thursday with only a few zoning issues on the agenda.  Several cases will be continued pending further information.  The board did vote to support the application list below.  The tire business at 5024 Torresdale Avenue wants to construct a building.

The next meeting of the Frankford Civic Association will be on January 5, 2012.

The Frankford Civic met Thursday night, October 6th, with about 20 people in attendance.  There were some routine zoning issues updated from the past.  The only new item of significance was an idea being discussed by the owners of the Quickie Mart at Frankford and Unity Streets to expand the

useable space of the store for the purpose of creating a sit down eating area and offering take out beer for sale.  Improvements to the shopping area would be part of the project.  The owners are trying to gauge community support and have not made a formal presentation to the civic as yet.

The next meeting of the Frankford Civic Association will be on Thursday, November 3rd.

 

I was away so could not cover the Frankford Civic meeting last week.  Fortunately NEastPhilly.com was on the job and captured a lot of valuable information.  L&I was the big story and that is always a hot topic at the Civic.  Read all about it here and they have a video too.

Members of Frankford Civic,