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I had heard that the ground breaking was scheduled for the end of December.
Site preparation is well underway now with heavy equipment grading and survey steaks laying out property lines.
We’ll continue to monitor the progress and post updates as the project moves along. Meanwhile follow this link to the web site.
It is a note of interest when everybody come to a unanimous agreement about anything. This time our 2 fine neighborhood newspapers both covered the honor bestowed upon Lorenzo DellaValle by City Council.
I still remember shortly after turning 11 the pictures on TV of the sinking of the Andrea Doria. One famous Philadelphian, then mayor Richardson Dilworth was on board. Unknown at the time, to us, was that a future famous Frankford resident was also on board coming to America.
Read the story from the Gleaner and the Northeast Times and don’t forget to wave when you walk by Lorenzo’s shop on Frankford Avenue near Harrison.
The Northeast Times this week has a lead story about the new signage along Frankford Avenue. Attention to the needs of the business area is always a plus and it is great to read about the cooperation of our various legislators in getting this done.
From today’s Daily News:
After visiting with relatives in West Philadelphia Christmas night, Shawn McKnight, 35, went to the Intocable Food Mart on 60th Street near Haverford Avenue to get a Mountain Dew.
He never made it home. He was shot to death outside the store.
“He was the victim of an apparent robbery,” said Homicide Lt. Philip Riehl.
McKnight, of Edmund Street near Margaret in Northeast Philadelphia, was shot at about 7:30 p.m. outside the corner store where he had stopped to make the purchase.
Police found him lying on the ground and took him to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead at about 8:10 p.m.
Riehl said detectives were still trying last night to get a description of the killer.
It was reported that McKnight was survived by his fiancee, a 3-year-old son, a 4-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old stepdaughter.
Read the entire article here.
From the Northeast Times:
Business owner Bill Goldshlack tried hard to block re-establishment of the Frankford Special Services District, but, in the end, he just couldn’t pull it off.
In a last-minute push, Goldshlack, who owns the Victor Stores, needed 51 percent of Frankford business owners to oppose the Special Services District — and in particular the taxes that would be assessed by the city to support it.
Goldshlack couldn’t muster that opposition. As a result, Mayor John Street’s endorsement of a bill creating the district is expected to have it up and running before he leaves office in January.
The Frankford Special Services District will encompass both sides of Frankford Avenue, from Torresdale Avenue to Bridge Street, and certain side streets that include parts of Kensington Avenue and Foulkrod, Gillingham, Griscom, Margaret, Meadow, Orthodox, Paul, Pratt, Darrah and Unity streets.
Previous criticism that the system failed in the past due to poor management does not seem to be addressed in the new proposal. Read the entire article here.
