Residents of the Callowhill neighborhood surrounding a billboard at 1113 Vine Street will have to wait at least until next year to find out if their appeal of a permit allowing the sign’s owner to convert it to digital display is successful. A hearing on the digital conversion at the Zoning Board of Adjustment Wednesday afternoon was continued after a contentious and legally befuddling 90 minutes.
Month: September 2012
(via Spring Garden Street Greenway)
Is this the future of Spring Garden Street? After attending my first meeting of the Callowhill Neighborhood Association, I have to admit I am hopeful.
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is working with many partners, from the City of Philadelphia to every neighborhood group along Spring Garden. But a new Spring Garden Street Greenway will only happen if:
- The planning and design process shows we can meet some pretty lofty goals
- You stay involved, support our work and help us move it forward!
Puniceous Pullman
Steak & Bagel Train
Broad and Noble Streets
Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday, 12 May, 2010
Philadelphia trade unions that have kept the Goldtex construction site under siege for the last six months agreed to end their protest after Rep. Bob Brady convened talks last week at the Sheet Metal Workers union hall, developer Michael Pestronk confirmed yesterday.
The Goldtex entrance at 12th and Wood Streets was virtually deserted Monday, for the first time since angry union protesters began gathering there in March in an organized effort to block deliveries and prevent Pestronk’s company from converting the 12-story factory building into rental apartments. Pestronk is trying to break with Philadelphia tradition by employing a mix of union and nonunion workers.
According to his account, the unions agreed during Brady’s peace parley Thursday to drop their demand that he use a fully unionized workforce. In exchange for calling off the protest, Pestronk said that his company, Post Brothers, had promised to encourage its subcontractors to include more card-carrying union members in their crews.
(Full story: Brady negotiates deal to stop union protests at Goldtex construction site)
One more opportunity to see images from “Urban Landscapes” exhibited at Seeds Gallery!
In Saturday’s incident, Council receptionist Robin Jones, 50, was allegedly driving a city-owned 2008 Chevy Cobalt about 2:30 a.m. when she lost control of the vehicle and hit a building at 13th and Hamilton streets in Center City, police said.
Remember when the Mad Decent Block Party was held on our very stoop? Well, the fine folks at The Institute feel that the time has come to bring it back. Thus on Saturday, September 22, the street will be closed for a free public block party featuring bands, DJs, food and drink. We’re hoping to pack the street with attractions so consider this an open call for artists/craftspeople to bring a table and set up on the sidewalk. Interested vendors should e-mail Charlie Collazo to reserve their spot: [email protected]
Of course it’s filthy. So is your mom. And so is the bougie nature that threatens this thing about which we all need to get a little more protective: Philly’s longstanding beautiful weirdness. We don’t mean to harp on this, but it’s true: For every transplant that comes here with their Rubbermaid tub filled with laptop chargers and Dwell magazines and copies of the PDT Cocktail Book, essential particles of that weirdness are squeezed out. We are speaking of matter and space. There is only so much. And yes, the transplants bring many good things. We are not xenophobes. But this shit needs to be managed.
[No. This quote was not directed, in any way, toward the Eraserhood. It still applies here in our neighborhood just as well as it applies to the intended target.]
Rumors have been flying that the highly publicized union protest at 12th and Wood Streets may have finally come to an end.
Michael Pestronk, of Post Brothers Apartments, which owns the former Goldtex Building under construction, acknowledged today that they had indeed met with union leadership yesterday, as they have regularly since the start of the protests, and that most rank-and-file members had been pulled from the picket line.
However, Pestronk stopped short of saying that a compromise had been reached.
(via Goldtex Protests At An End? | Hidden City Philadelphia)