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Frankford NAC Five Cases This Month

Community Zoning Meeting – November 9, 2017, 4667 Paul Street 1st floor,  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us and Vote!  On what happens in your neighborhood!

You must be 18 or older with ID to vote in these proceedings.

5127 Duffield Street – Develop lot into Veterans housing

5127 Duffield Street from Google Maps

4535 Tackawanna Street – Legalization of a five-dwelling unit

4535 Tackawanna Street from Google Street View

4416 Frankford Avenue – To be used as a Hall/ Entertain Events with food service

4410-16 Frankford Avenue

4938 Penn Street – Rooming house for six individuals

4938 Penn Street

4562 Hawthorne Street – Auto Repair shop

4562 Hawthorne Street

Eligible Voters: Community and Neighborhood Residents/ Residents must have ID in order to vote.

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Sugar and Spice

Sam Barqawi owned Sugar and Spice, the store on the NE corner of Frankford Avenue and Foulkrod Street for almost 25 years.   He was always very helpful to the police.  Yes the store was open all night and a magnet for trouble but he did his best to counter that by having the best surveillance system on the Avenue that helped identify quite a few criminals.  It was no secret and he was proud of it and would tell the drug dealers they weren’t welcome there.

He was honored by the 15th District Advisory Council in 2013 for his cooperation with the police and generous support of the PDAC over the years.

There is a new business at that location.  The new name is Lowi’s Market.

Thanks to Mark Montenaro for the tip.

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Congratulations to the Frankford CDC

On October 18th, at the Kimmel Center, the AIA (American Institute of Architects)  presented the Community Design Award to the Frankford Community Development Corporation and Richard Carroll, Brad Springer, Robin Miller, Sophia Lundeholm, Carrie Sauer and Michael Williams for excellence in design, collaboration  and community impact in the conceptual design of the streetscape improvements planned for the intersection of Margaret, Arrott, and Paul Streets with Frankford Avenue.

Proposed streetscape looking from the foot of Oxford Avenue across Arrott Street.

The plan is to take some of the chaos out of the intersection and make it more than what it is right now.  The first piece of that project is the Frankford Pause pop up park which is now being constructed.

It will be bold and not easy to miss. It will be a place for the community to gather for events and being next to the Daral building makes that block a hub for all civic business in Frankford.

When the reconstruction of the Arrott Transportation Center is completed the area will be much different.  Now, if we can get some of those stop and go stores out of there, things might really start looking up.

 

 

 

 

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Crackdown Aims at ‘Stop and Go’ Liquor Sales

Philadelphia lawmakers are celebrating a bill aimed at cracking down on so-called “Stop and Go” establishments and its about time.  These places defy the LCB regulations and use restaurant licenses to open phone booth sized stores to sell beer and liquor and the LCB and State Police have been useless in making them comply with the regulations.  See the story from 6ABC at the link below.

Source: Crackdown aimed at ‘Stop and Go’ liquor sales in Philly | 6abc.com