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From Michael Bane of the Northwood Civic Association:
NCA General Meeting
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7:00PM
Saint James Church
Castor Avenue and Pratt StreetOn the agenda…
– There will be a presentation for the proposed boys school at the former site of Thrifty Scott Beer Distributor.
– We will discuss information about new ownership of the house at 4712 Castor Avenue.Please bring a neighbor to the meeting!
The Frankford CDC has a new blog. Take a look and then feel free to add your two cents. They want dialog. You can find it here.
I don’t usually post news that is not directly related to Frankford but this sounds like something that would happen here.
To demonstrate this residential, Southwest Philadelphia community’s opposition to the introduction of a PRIVATE PRISON for 400 Inmates on the same block as a day care center and a school – and one block away from a church.
The residents, businesses, community groups, block captains, and institutions of this area of Southwest Philadelphia oppose the placement of a PRIVATE PRISON in their neighborhood. There was no effort to engage or alert this community to this two-year, underhanded effort to put this prison in the heart of a residential community. Residents did not know a PRIVATE PRISON was being planned. Residents did not know there was a Zoning Board hearing about the prison on January 27, 2010!Now the community is fighting back and coming out to let their voices be heard. Residents and community groups have organized to write letters to the Zoning Board opposing this prison. Residents are contacting their City Council representatives to let them know they do not want this in their neighborhood.And on Wednesday, February 9th, at 4:30pm, residents are taking to the streets to show the rest of the neighborhoods in the City that they might be next – so need to stand up for their neighborhoods before their neighborhoods become dumping grounds.
From the Frankford Civic:
Our meeting scheduled for Thursday February 3rd has been postponed until Thursday, February 10th…same time in Aria health system”s lunch room.
The Northwood Civic meeting last night was attended by about 30 people who had heard about the Volunteers of America house becoming occupied on Christmas Eve. NEastPhilly.com did a great job of covering that angle and you can read their report and see the video here.
The former location of the Thrifty Scott beer distributor on Castor Avenue near Wingohocking is under construction. Possible tenants for the building are a dialysis center that would move over from the Cancer Treatment Center. Another potential tenant is looking at the facility. Both will make a presentation to the Civic with details of their plans.
