PHILADELPHIA – September 12, 2013 (WPVI) — Police are searching for an armed suspect who barricaded himself inside a Philadelphia business with three other people early Thursday morning.
Armed suspect barricades himself, 3 others inside Philadelphia business | 6abc.com.
Philadelphia’s threatened Church of the Assumption. Credit: Jonathon Much, Much Photography
Next City is hosting a live blog of the 2013 Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference, now ongoing in Philadelphia.
Zach Patten of Curbed Philly contributed to this story.
The Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference turned its eye to preservation at an afternoon session on Tuesday, with panelists exploring how shrinking cities and neighborhoods can become more desirable and healthier places to live.
Demolition versus rehabilitation was the crux of the conversation. While stressing the importance of educating the public about a neighborhood’s historic assets, the panelists made it clear that preservationists advocating for rehabilitation must convey why redevelopment is better than teardowns.
“Walking the Eraserhood” represents an ongoing street-level exploration of the Callowhill district and surrounding environs, a sort of virtual walking tour of the neighborhood.
On the northeast corner of this intersection is the former site of the Colonial Revival style Willys-Overland Company building, demolished in 2012, after only two years dedicated as part of CIHD, to make way for a center for the Pennsylvania Ballet. Attached to this lot, just to the north of the Willys-Overland site, stands the 1911 US. Tire Company Building, slated to be occupied by Pennsylvania Ballet as part of the same complex. The southeast corner still contains the Albert Kahn designed Packard Motor Company Building, currently filled with luxury apartments.
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From what we understand, the property will be going to auction in November. No word on an opening bid price, but we’d have to imagine it will be lower than the $7M+ number the owners were seeking when it was previously on the market. We had never heard of Maltz Auctions before, but they apparently run auctions all over the country.
Independence Press Building Should Be Sold This Year | NakedPhilly.
[Two of the winners (The Hactory coming in at number six and PhilaMOCA coming in at number five) are based in the Eraserhood.]
“Walking the Eraserhood” represents an ongoing street-level exploration of the Callowhill district and surrounding environs, a sort of virtual walking tour of the neighborhood. This is the first installment in the series.
This is the corner colorfully referred to as “The Heart of the Eraserhood.” On the southeast corner of this intersection is the site where David Lynch first lived when he studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Lynch reports he lived, “right kitty-corner from the morgue,” which still stands on the northwest corner of the intersection, now serving an annex to the main building of Roman Catholic High School, around the block at Broad and Vine streets. On the northeast corner of this intersection stands the historic Heid building, a pivotal site in the formation of the Callowhill Industrial Historic District (CIHD).
SEPTA’s Spring Garden stop along the Broad-Ridge spur isn’t architecturally unique. It has barrel vaulted concrete ceilings, steel I-beams supporting the street above, and the Broad-Ridge line passes by it every day. What is unique, the train doesn’t stop.
At 12th & Spring Garden, the southwest corner features a property that looks positively awful, as our friend GroJLart wrote in the City Paper this spring (though we’ve hyperlinked his story, the link now curiously doesn’t work). It’s the site of a derelict former car repair shop that looks like it’s a Hollywood representation of a gas station after the bombs fell. It’s right across the street from the still-gorgeous Church of the Assumption, which continues to stand despite the probability of demolition in the name of development.
Blight and Vacancy at Two Corners of 12th & Spring Garden | NakedPhilly.
Yes, the rumors are true. Prohibition Taproom will be open for lunch every Friday at 11:00am starting TODAY!
Yes, the rumors are true. Prohibition Taproom… – Prohibition Taproom.
