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Cobey1 t1_jdr06wj wrote

Could and should be 400+ units of affordable housing and commercial retail space if lead/asbestos free

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us1087 t1_jdr21ev wrote

Back when Philadelphia made things.

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i-bleed-red t1_jdr22g8 wrote

The Red Lion plant was walking distance to where I grew up and several neighbors worked there. After it was shuttered, huge families of deer took over the outside and you could always see dozens in a drive by.

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squee_bastard t1_jdr7ozg wrote

In 1998-99 I lived on Wissahickon for a year in a beautiful old apartment complex that my school had subleased units from. One night I tried a different way home from my usual Lincoln Drive exit, exiting off Route 1, I made a wrong turn and ended up driving down towards Hunting Park Avenue and saw all of these cool old buildings. I never knew what these were at the time but seeing this photo unlocked a long ago memory.

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carlosnelson_ t1_jdrbwju wrote

Replying to us1087 (#2,371,175)

I work all throughout Mayfair, Port Richmond. Kensington, Fishtown, Wissinoming, & Juniata Park on my route & I'm amazed at the vast amount of factories that were in Philadelphia. A lot of them have been converted into lofts/apartments

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APettyJ t1_jdrm9jv wrote

Dropped some visitors (one was from Gabon, another had an accent I couldn't place) at rave that was held in a part of the Budd plant last night. Always wanted to go to a rave...

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kenzo19134 t1_jds7pa9 wrote

Replying to us1087 (#2,374,499)

I took the train from Philly to Boston about 25 years ago. It was the same from NYC to Boston. It was a grim ride to see all the gutted infrastructure that supported the postwar boom.

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Playinclay t1_jdsjrut wrote

Replying to applefuk (#2,368,992)

Thanks for posting this. My grandfather worked there his whole life and I have his overalls he had to wear on the job. Interesting to learn more about the place he spent so much time!

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_jdsq0gm wrote

None of the people who worked at this place needed a beer garden or a dog park or a bike lane. Lol. 👍🏼

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outerspace29 t1_jdsx504 wrote

What's going on with the bioworks conversion for this site? Is that still proceeding?

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thegreendutch t1_jdt7fuh wrote

That place is huge. I always could see an action movie made there lol

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tiny-e t1_jdvbexg wrote

It seems the Budd company isn't quite done at that location, at least the Budd name anyway. A company doing biomedical manufacturing is (will be?) operating there. Philly still makes things, just different things.

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_token_black t1_jdwpaex wrote

Replying to carlosnelson_ (#2,372,421)

Craziest thing is at the very least that could be turned into housing.

A warehouse I worked at in NoLibs was converted to luxury condos in no time. Guess it’s harder to do if you’re not charging $3k to live there 🙄

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_jdzg8yv wrote

Replying to givemesendies (#2,405,289)

The bicycle should suck the automobile’s d!€k for bringing paved blacktop and asphalt roads into the mainstream with no cobblestones, brick pavers, wooden block pavers, and piles of horse manure everywhere bikes to exist on in the first place..

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givemesendies t1_je2okfd wrote

Replying to SouthPhilly_215 (#2,424,981)

Yes, but I prefer bike or walking for moving around in the city. I'm not sure why you hate bike lanes so much. Bikes means less traffic. Plus, if people could get around safely on bikes, they wouldn't have to spend all their money on cars. I always see you talking about how we should help the poor instead of building bike lanes, but bikes are WAY cheaper than cars and would make a lot of peoples financial life easier.

A beater car is $3000, will need a ton of money to keep going, and needs inspection and insurance and other bullshit. $3000 gets you an a high quality ebike that will need $200 of maintenance a year, and no insurance or gas. Hell, you could get a bike for 1000 and save the other 2000.

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_je2v40v wrote

Replying to givemesendies (#2,432,224)

I actually use an Apollo City scooter quite a bit friend. And I grew up riding my bike all over the city. We were taught that sharing the road doesn’t mean you can ride in the center of the street and slow up buses, trucks, cars, trolleys etc. The new influx interprets it as everyone should crawl at 10mph till they turn off of the street. People who claim to be super outgoing about using their bike or public transit for “most” of their commuting needs still seem to have brought their vehicles to town with them and, even though they may pay for a parking permit, just hoard the same parking spot for an inordinate amount of time. (Sometimes months!) Because a police vehicle or some other delivery vehicle, trash truck, or cab pulls over into the bike lane (usually in consideration of letting traffic pass more easily) doesn’t mean that vehicle should be kicked, spit on, or have some other mischief done to it while bikers/scooters ride by. (Yes this is a thing that happens more often than you’d think.) In the time it takes for some people to stop their bike, pull out their phone, take a photo, write some complaint, and then post it, they could have been blocks past the so called obstruction.

Its alarming any time a pedestrian or bike rider gets injured or killed in an accident. But when I observe more outrage and activism over further enhancing a comfortable and safe biking experience while anti-violence measures gets less energy.. While educating the city’s poor students gets less energy.. Idunno man.

It really has been great to see a lot of the basketball courts and athletic fields around town get long awaited makeovers. But sometimes it seems like ya can’t get the support you need to get the project backed by these newfangled neighborhood associations unless you offer a dog park as a bargaining chip. Or a cumbersome pavement “enhancement”…. Yeah we’ll fix the block but you gotta let us clog the artery. Hahaha. Its slick.

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