PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread II

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by Redddog

Some good stuff here and from PhilliesPhan.

If Fry does what Fry does, Temple will make huge strides connecting it's campus right down to City Hall. Containing violence and creating a safer environment for students is of the utmost priority. To me, it's the biggest detractor the school has. I've had at least 3 family members come and look at that school and passed not because of the quality of the education or the curriculum, but because of the area it's in and the reputation for violence.

I haven't spent a lot of time around campus but the times I've been there at night, even Broad St is super sketchy. It's a damn shame because it's a great school. It's so frustrating to have something like the neighborhood ruin it as an option for prospective students. PhilliesPhan can (and hopefully will) comment on how he felt as a student there and what it was like to hang around there socially.

Fry figures out a way to expand their real estate and control violence and he will continue his remarkable legacy here in Philly and solidify his standing as one of the greats.

He will need the help of a better economic environment.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by cardeza

wasnt someone talking about graffitti on or around the highways recently???

https://www.penndot.pa.gov/RegionalO...px?newsid=9417

It’s alive!

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by mcgrath618

Edmund Bacon deserves a statue in effigy, and a place amongst some of the most mistaken and ill-advised Philadelphians of all time.

Jim Kenney seconds that motion.

[Philly Fan]

Originally Posted by mcgrath618

Edmund Bacon deserves a statue in effigy, and a place amongst some of the most mistaken and ill-advised Philadelphians of all time.

True. I included him with some trepidation, although my short list was of folks who'd had a major impact on Philly's urban environment, whether for good or ill. And he WAS instrumental in the preservation of Society Hill in the 1950s and 1960s when others sought to decimate it, right?

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

It’s alive!

They'll close a highway down to remove graffitti but can't sweep a highway shoulder. Blessings from PennDot. And for sure, they'd never send a sweeper to clean the highway when it's already closed for another reason because that would make too much sense.

[mcgrath618]

Originally Posted by Philly Fan

True. I included him with some trepidation, although my short list was of folks who'd had a major impact on Philly's urban environment, whether for good or ill. And he WAS instrumental in the preservation of Society Hill in the 1950s and 1960s when others sought to decimate it, right?

True, but odd that he didn’t take the same approach to Poplar in North Philadelphia, or with Broad Street Station’s headhouse.

[Knight Hospitaller]

Originally Posted by mcgrath618

True, but odd that he didn’t take the same approach to Poplar in North Philadelphia, or with Broad Street Station’s headhouse.

There seemed to be a real antipathy towards Frank Furness’s designs at that time. We have lost a lot of them.

[TonyTone]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

They'll close a highway down to remove graffitti but can't sweep a highway shoulder. Blessings from PennDot. And for sure, they'd never send a sweeper to clean the highway when it's already closed for another reason because that would make too much sense.

They have been sweeping highways all week.

There has been Street sweepers on 76 & 95 this past week at night.

Penndot & the city are working to clean it up. Remember this isn’t gonna change over night, however continuous work will fix the problem

[Philly Fan]

Originally Posted by mcgrath618

True, but odd that he didn’t take the same approach to Poplar in North Philadelphia, or with Broad Street Station’s headhouse.

In other words, he was a bit "Footloose?" Or maybe that was his son. [Sorry, couldn't resist. ]