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Originally Posted by Front&Bainbridg
We as Philadelphians dont want to bring on storms of traffic into the corridor, just want it to be a more desirable location for tourists which brings revenue and helps our businesses survive and flourish.
To attract such businesses and tourists we need to make the move to a classier audicence, ie-GTOWN.
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Classier audience? There are a few places in Philadelphia where you can find classier audiences--Rittenhouse, Wash West, among others. There are people who will fight you tooth and nail to preserve the funky core of South Street. That is what made it, and keeps it, a tourist destination.
How many 'pretty' places do we need anyway?
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Originally Posted by Front&Bainbridg
No one here was speaking about crime, population, etc... These are other elements which are not a part of this conversation.
1-Clean the Streets up
2-Add Trees
3-Add nice attractive lighting and curb appeal
4-Results in a few more nice restaurants
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You do realize that for a relatively tiny area, BV/QV is host to a number of good to outstanding restaurants. That certainly isn't the problem here.
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Originally Posted by Front&Bainbridg
This all adds to the neighboorhod and would be great for our out of towners coming to visit instead of the rift rafty low segments we have now. I believe the 2nd to 3rd Block is great and a great start. So is the Starbucks, and I believe the Wholefoods area is getting built up nicely.
No, this wont be a G-Town, and I think you knew what i meant when i used GTown and Manyunk as an example.
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You have done this twice now--it's "riff raff", not rift raft.
Manayunk is not exactly the correct example to bring in here. The people on that forum are usually in a lather over the bars and pubs and college and just past college-aged creating a ruckus, and too many empty storefronts, and no supermarket! G-town can also reference Germantown here.