Never went before covid, but a few weeks ago before Christmas they were bustling and had baking stuff/espresso machines.

I think they’re filming today. I ride my bike through there daily and this morning it was blocked off at 19th and I could see what looked like a whole film setup.

This sucks, but please.. don’t make this a parking lot.

Just your daily reminder that drivers are rarely punished.

How could they let her drive after killing someone? How could she be given bail?

1 DUI and your license should be gone and your car impounded. Murder someone behind the wheel and you should be in prison.

Send them to Houston.

We have one of the most walkable/bikeable cities in America— purely because Philly is so old and that’s how cities used to be designed (for people).

The bones of Philly as an old city are a gift that other places need to spend billions to redevelop towards. Let’s not fuck it up anymore than it’s already been.

Like 90% of Washington to Spring garden and the Delaware to the Schuykill should be 20mph or less.

People shouldn’t expect to be able to speed through a dense city center in a car.

Interesting points!

I sure hope American urbanism is NOT on the decline! I think if everyone had exposure to walkable and bikeable communities there would be no argument that those are much more enjoyable than their car-centric counterparts.

Anecdotally, I see more and more people millennials and gen z getting interested in the strong towns movement and other urbanist groups. We have a few good ones in Philly ourselves.

As a dumb yuppie I can say that I wouldn’t rent here lol.

Doesn’t take much of an income to be able to afford a nice apartment downtown with the way rent is in Philly compared to other cities.

I hope that happens, but tbh Boston and NYC are miles ahead in terms of their tech/business/professional economy which I think drove their resurgence.

It’s nice to see small wins in Philly like the biotech industry growing and big tech names setting up small offices, but i don’t see Philly catching up in its current trajectory.

I agree that the El and BSL will continue to drive development.

I gotta admit though, the disjunction of development in Philly is weird. For example, there are still parking lots and other underuses of land on broad between vine and girard. Even downtown in general.

I assumed infill would precede expansion.

Always good to development, but I gotta admit this area is still pretty rough. I’m not sure who these luxury residences would be targeting and who would want to stay at a hotel here.

I know you said no food, but it might be worth checking out Monster Vegan.

Spooky themed vegan restaurant (also a bar), but the food is really good and they’ll probably have something fun going on Halloween weekend.