Sensational take... The more accurate way to state it would be: Pay your rent or get evicted.

Perfectly good house to buy, rent out cheaply until the area eventually gets better over the course of the next 30 years and then have a cheaply acquired, high cash-flow property.

Plus the under-the-95 trails have been completed which leads right to the Richmond St hipster zone, in addition to the trolley tracks and the larger Delaware Ave revitalization.

Hopefully the hoping works out. Best of luck.

This is the type of quality of life issues that come with living in Kensington. Easiest thing to do is move to a different area.

It's not rocket science, but its also operationally intense. You can't just copy and paste other cities approaches because we have a completely different operating model.

They're doing this in limited scope because there will likely be many unforeseen situations that will need to be addressed. They will analyze and react to the unforeseen stuff which will give them a more realistic view of the painpoints of the actual sweeping and the operational painpoints of capacity planning for this appropriately. They will also need to likely hire and reassign different teams to support this so understanding which roles and accountability decisions will need to be made.

Once they have muscle memory built up and find a good balance of operational finesse, they can consider expanding it to be more wide reaching.

Large programs, even when the task at hand is not complex, become inherently complex once its added into a larger function (aka city government/ municipal services). This is a widely studied aspect of program management and should not be underestimated.

Large programs are best done in phases as a pilot program. Doing this citywide without neighborhood pilots to gain learnings from results in less wasted money and big process-related mistakes. They are doing this in phases, in key areas, so they can learn how to rollout it out citywide in a more effective manner. Project rollout is a key part of success of said project

There was some food market that was supposed to open there maybe 5-7 years ago, if i recall correctly. they have their signage with a "coming" message on it for awhile. I haven't been in that area since pre-pandemic, so I'm not sure what ever happened to it,.

Lots of international guests come through that makes it logical for Chinatown for short-term rentals

Those piers behind the Walmart are going to be a game changer. Can’t wait to hang out there when it’s complete and possibly even kayak

Lots of people probably avoid major camera-heavy state owned highways to lower risk and less footage

It will be unlikely to see much capping of 95 around that side since the 95 is at the roof height of the surrounding neighborhood, but they did a bunch of rennovations under the 95 which is technically a "walking trail". I've walked it dozens of times since it finished a few months ago and its actually pretty nice during the day, but at night time its pretty uncomfortable and doesn't feel safe (although there is a lot of lighting which is a major enhancement). Right across the street there is a construction material warehouse that is up for sale (according to the sign above it) and directly behind it is the entire Northbank Phase 1 construction site (nearly complete) which just started up phase 2. Once phase 2 completes and the streets are paved, the Delaware River Trail from Penn Treaty via Dyott St (the road full of potholes immediately north of Penn Treaty) into Northbank and directly onto Graffitti Pier's trail (which is planned to be a managed park).

If you haven't been back in Northbank, go take a walk and see how much has changed. The entire phase 1 waterfront section is publicly accessible and has a great view. It's shaping up really nice

There's a building between Penn Treaty Park and on the northern side of the casino. It was in a weird financial limbo for a few years, then it magically burnt down and has been just the early stage concrete foundation/ supporting structures remaining, but it was purchased by a new developer in 2022 and there is some plan to make some type of density-style development on that lot (I think it was like 190 units or something)... there is also another development right on the southern side of the casino that I think is recently broke ground as well. South, north and across the street from the Casino are a handful of projects currently going up or soon to begin going up.

I forget where I read it about the status of that building (its owned by Comcast), but this is what's going up next to it which is bring major density to that corner. The development on the comcast lot is after this first one gets built

https://www.rising.realestate/855-units-retail-planned-in-south-philly-on-the-delaware-river/

What do you mean?

It's like 5 - 6 years realistically.

11.5 acre park, leading right into all the northern waterfront developments that are emerging and all the recently rennovated and recently established fun of Spruce Harbor park, leading directly into Olde City and Market St is going to be such an awesome change. Night time along the waterfront is going to way more dynamic.

EDIT:

Here is a comment I made previously that adds more perspective into what the delaware ave projects are shaping up to be:

Delaware Ave and the waterfront are going to be very different by the end of this decade. Here's other in-progress or planned things, starting from North and moving southward:

Graffiti Pier Park

Northbank Phase 2 (Phase 1 is nearly complete with over 150 homes already lived within)

PECO Substation next to Penn Treaty Park turned into residential units

The site next to the casino

The site across from Club ROAR and the brewery right before Spring Garden

The old festival pier location having 1,300+ units and a waterfront park

The two projects across from festival pier's former site also making steady progress

The capping of I-95 and the 11.5 acre park being built upon it to replace Penn's Landing

All of this waterfront will be connected by the recently rennovated Delaware River Trail (which will extends through Northbank and into Graffiti Pier and may even extend further north as time goes on)

Spruce Harbor park enhancements

The site that is the 1-story Comcast facility is being sold and turned into some type of dense project

The Giant just finished construction in S Columbus

There's supposed to be some type of South Philly version of Northbank proposed for that area near the Walmart trail as well

^ That's a lot of foot traffic from over 3,000 new households alone, not to mention the attract it will draw from nearby Spring Garden, Fishtown (and the American Ave cooridoor that is massively building up, Northern Liberties and Olde City and disposable income being injected into the waterfront. We may see a whole new comercial cooridoor full of things to do at night time, more walkability/ quality of life improvements, more recreational open public spaces and new night life scenes. This will be a major tourism hub and will generate a lot of tax revenue and will be a key part of "things to do in philly".

Same here. Just don’t care to carry cash on me and haven’t had any reason to compel me to. Street vendors were the last place I used cash and not most of them have square or Venmo so it’s removed the final inconvenience for me

Wouldn't this help with 76 traffic. If this KOP extension happens, it seems like it would be a good central hub for bus/ shuttle services to the many employers along the 76 cooridoor (like up in Malvern and further along... lots of big companies with lots of people who live in the city and commute daily, I could see a lot of them being interested in this line)

Very Wizard of Oz-like

Yeah, it’s still on. Should be wrapped up around 2040ish

Atmosphere is decent, but the food quality to price ratio is way off. Haven't had any amazing food experiences there despite the prices being on that level

I graduated from Temple. It's a good education, but comes with a very low quality of life if you are living in the immediate area.

It's not a place where you can walk around with headphones and feel safe. I was constantly on guard while living there and when I look back, I wish I would've went somewhere else that had a peaceful, safe quality of life where I could walk home safely at night time and not have PTSD from having my home invaded.

Pooopa Marie’s!

There is a competitive aspect of the parade. The serenade is to honor the winning brigade. It's a long standing part of Philadelphia culture and something many people value. Stop trying to dilute and diminish Philly's culture.