Yet another wrong assumption.

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Well I apologize then. I agree with you on one of the mentionings, but not the others. I will keep that to myself though for obvious reasons.

Let’s imagine all the nice new trees and lamp posts on a Saturday night. There are throngs of people on the sidewalks. Wait there is no room to walk… Damn trees… people snapping the branches, drunks from Fat Tuesday throwing up on the posts (yeah FT isn’t going anywhere), more people walking into the street because they’re tired of walking on crowd sidewalks and into trees, traffic gets worse, more cars spill onto Bainbridge, Coquette diners on the meridian die from the exhaust fumes, parking gets worse, people give up on South St. and travel to Haddonfield for their tattoos, civilization dies as we know it, South St. then returns to its usual status quo and the lamb lies down on Broadway.

I can’t say I always agree with Alesis and the gang but this time they’re right. South St. has shops that set root there when rents were cheap. They helped give the street its rep. Now that we no longer need studded leather, acid washed t-shirts and punk rock we’re happy to see the Zipperheads of the world move on (or in their case around the corner). We’ve traded in the fun of South St. for a classy named Martinis at French sounding restaurants and we want South St. to change with us. Well, the hell with us. We don’t own South St and wanting it to become the next Georgetown, SoHo, Village,… is a mistake. Because if we succeed we’ll be filling this blog with sentimental schlock about how we all first got drunk at JC Dobbs or bought some cool Day of the Dead doll at that funny little gallery with all the Mexican stuff or how wild we were to shop at Zipperhead.

Alarms should be ringing that we will now have three banks on the street! What the heck are banks doing on South St. And lets not forget the last big project around that area involving the city and developers was New Market… you might notice the lovely big hole on Front St. that it has become. That stretch of 2nd is only just coming around and it is mostly due to the use of the shed, allowing QVers to find the courage to walk along South St in order to get organic white radishes on Sunday morning.

I am sorry for the ramble. I like change as much as anyone but in the scheme of things South St. is just fine. It was and continues to be part of the revival of Queen Village and that shouldn’t be forgotten. I think it was Alesis who mentioned some of shop owners that lived in the area. They were setting the beachhead for the rest of us to storm on into QV. I bet they there are days they regret that.

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Pardon me if I am mistaking but I was walking down the Street this morning and there are Lamposts in place, there are a few trees scattered and of course there is a sidewalk.

The REHAB would just to make the lamposts nicer, with more lighting. The REHAB would fix much of the street and sidewalk which has fallen apart in the past several years. (Hey come on, every street needs to be revamped).


Room to walk for drunks? Well, I disagree. The Trees will be a nice feature if put in correctly. There are plenty of Trees in Manyunk and PLENTY OF DRUNKS.

I dont see vandalization being that much of an issue.


The REHAB is not to Change South Street, it is to make it more presentable!

What's wrong with the university of pittsburgh?

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this article caught my eye - in regards to this thread and the argument on how cleaning up South Street will increase tourism...

http://www.philly.com/philly/busines...R_TOURISM.html

What that article does is just confirm my earlier point to FrontB - yes, a cleaner South Street will be a welcome improvement for the neighborhood but it will not increase tourism traffic any more than a clean block of Chestnut Street would.

GPTMC uses so many larger and powerful events and locations to draw tourist dollars ... South Street just happens to be a historical entertainment destination - perhaps not as entertaining as it was for some - but it still IS South Street....

Gentrifying the street with chains or indie stores designed to attract a "more affluent" tourist dollar is not on the agenda of anyone in power ... they have enough destinations and events within the city limits (and beyond) to lure those traveling dollars into our city without having to create a new one.

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Southstman,

He spent how many postings describing how we must make south street like georgetown, and when that didn't work he said mannyunk, and when that didn't work he said tourism, then he claimed philadelphia spends "far less" than other cities, and when I proved him wrong on that point he now says:

"The REHAB is not to Change South Street, it is to make it more presentable!"

All within 24hrs. What a blowhole-I've seen less switches at a lightbulb convention.

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HAHAHAHA!!!

Too true. Trust me, as I posted earlier - he lost me at the "starbux" comment

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LOL!!!

Where is Front B!!

I do agree that it will be more presentable for what its worth, but as I have argued no way to Georgetown just a more fun cleaner and attractive South Street!

I wish to formally apologize to everyone...turns out many of you are correct. We should turn south street into Manayunk-what a classy place!!!!

http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/1124581.php?

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