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The next Northwood Civic Association Meeting is tonight at 7:00 PM at Simpson Recreation Center, 1010 Arrott Street.
Councilman David Oh, or a representative from his office, will be speaking about the legislation proposed on the issue of squatters. Update on 1301 Wakeling Street. Please attend this important meeting and bring a neighbor with you.
1301 Wakeling Street
Community Planting Day – Sat, October 28, 10 am – 2 pm, Frankford Pause Park, 4671-73 Paul Street – The Frankford CDC and the Frankford Garden Club present Community Planting Day with workshops throughout the day.
Free Concert – Sat, October 28, 1 pm – 5 pm, Carmella Playground, 2100 Wakeling Street – Free concert by Jah People, skateboard contest, food trucks, 50/50 raffle, Halloween costume contest for kids and adults and feed the homeless food drive.
20th Annual Tricky Trays – Sun, October 29, 11:30 am, St. Joachim Church, 1527 Church Street – Court St. Francis de Sales #2617 invites you to a day of fun at the 20th Annual Tricky Trays in St. Joachim’s Hall, 1527 Church Street on Sunday, October 29, 2017. Doors open 11:30 AM. First ticket drawn at 1 PM. $5.00 admission includes trip to the kitchen and 2 raffle tickets. Free dessert. Additional raffles and food available. 50-50 and kids costume judging. Bring canned goods for Matthew 25 food cupboard and get a free raffle ticket. Call Brenda for info 215-288-8168″
Frankford NAS Election – Thu, November 2, 9:00 am – 6:30 pm, 4667 Paul Street – Ground floor for the voting and Thu, November 2, 10 am – 4 pm, 4900 Griscom St,
Frankford Civic Association Meeting, Thu, November 2, 7 pm – 8 pm, St Mark’s Church Frankford, 4442 Frankford Avenue
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.
Congratulations to Joe Krause and the Northwood Civic Association on their big victory over EverBank of Jacksonville, Florida, the owner of 1301 Wakeling Street. At a court hearing on October 19th, Scioli Turco was appointed conservator of the property. Immediate improvements will begin to be made to the outside of the property and the home will be repaired inside and out to be marketed for sale as a single family home in the coming months.
Scioli Turco is a community and neighborhood development organization who works on behalf of neighborhoods to take over blighted properties and return them to the market when the owners cannot or will not do so.
This case goes back to April 16th, 2016 when the first hearing was held and the judge ordered the owner to do the repairs and get the house on the market for sale by June 1st. They did not comply but managed to forestall the conservatorship for almost a year and a half.
I have been watching the efforts of the people in Northwood to take on the speed problem on Castor Avenue between Foulkrod and Pratt for a couple of years now. They had some success in that the Streets department studied the Speedway and concluded that yes traffic was running too fast. They made promises to do some fixing and they did some fixing but not as much as the promised, at least to date. What they did was lay some strips across the lanes that are about as thick as cardboard which are intended to remind people to slow up. Cardboard might have worked better. The accidents are still happening and speed still speedy.
Northwood was promised by Councilwoman Sanchez that she would arrange a sit down with the Streets Department to resolve the issue. So far, no meeting. There are solutions to this problem but they are not being implemented.
Saturday morning, April 29th, Mari Carrasquillo, who lives about a block away from Castor and Foulkrod, posted on Facebook the first news about the accident. The car was traveling South on Castor and as it approached the intersection of Foulkrod, came into contact with the utility pole on the West side of the street. The car and pole were heavily damaged. The power lines shorted out creating some fireworks that took some time to be extinguished. No further information about the accident investigation by the police was available as of today.
