With the "excitement" of a new Home Depot, etc. shopping center coming to West Parkside, I am curious if anyone knows anything about the look of this upcoming behemoth?

I'm sure it will be car-friendly even though a large number of people in that area walk, and take the trolley places.

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If I'm wrong about Home Depot going in this place, sorry. But I'm rather certain I have heard it will be there. It's definitely got to be a shopping center going in to have the scorched earth look at the site now.

that's great. any progress is great.

More of that here

It is strange that no renderings have been made public yet, as far as I know. I'm surprised Shoprite is confident enough to put in a huge supermarket there, given the site's proximity to the suburbs. Most of Wynnefield shops at the Acme on City Line, plus there's a Genuardi's and Superfresh in Wynnewood. Parkside itself is a pretty small neighborhood, and it's too far to be a convenient walk from any place south of Lancaster Avenue.

The site is relatively isolated, with only a few blocks of housing on either side, so the effects on the neighborhood will probably be limited.

Of course, it would have been ideal to see some type of transit-oriented development, you know, make a nice pedestrian crossing over/under the tracks to Lancaster Ave and make a nice trolley stop (52nd and Lancaster could even have a regional rail stop some day) and have medium-density apartment buildings with walkable shops and what not. Oh well, we'll see what the renderings look like, but I think the development will be strictly commercial.

I think ShopRite will be mobbed there. While the site is close to those other stores you mention, they aren't close enough that people wouldn't quickly decide to shop closer to home in W. Phila. If anything the ShopRite will help underscore how small and outmoded the ShopRite is Overbrook is at 67th and Haverford (even though they are updating that location). You might find people in farther out W. PHila. opt for the new, larger ShopRite on 52nd.

actually, acme tends to get more bala cynwydies and pathmark off conshohocken and ford road gets most of wynnefields shoppers. acme's a bit higher on almost all of the stuff they sell. but i'd imagine that alot of west philly will shop there.