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Originally Posted by PhilliesPhan
901 North Front Street is a nice project, but 2500 North American is disgraceful. When are we going to stop building storage facilities along North American? The street was not redone to become a dead zone flanked by storage facilities. This facility and the ones on Ridge Avenue in East Falls, Grays Ferry Avenue in Grays Ferry, and along 32nd Street in Brewerytown are annoying.
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They are annoying but this is one place where the city has to take a heavy hand in determining where they should go. Another place is with light industrial. There are so many small mom and pop industrial businesses moving because they are selling their land to developers for multi-family etc. This is particularly true in the Riverwards and Kensington. Where are all those employers going? I'll tell you: South Jersey.
They need a place to land in Philadelphia. There should be zones of spec light industrial buildings in the Erie Street Corridor (how is this not a KOZ?) around the Coca Cola plant, South Philly around the port and airport, and even Bellweather.
The more I think about it, it's high time for a master plan for the industrial corridor along Erie Street. With the intense gentrification happening everywhere else, there need to be firm plans for every zone of the city that isn't residential. This particular area could be a boon for local neighborhoods in terms of blue collar jobs if it was well planned and managed. I'm thinking specifically Erie, Hunting Park, Luzerne, Cayuga Avenues from I through to Front Street. Some of it is happening organically but it needs a master plan and a governing body in much the same way we have for the Navy Yard, Bellweather, etc.
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