It’s definitely squirrels and rats looking for food, but yeah there’s not much you can do unfortunately. If you could get your neighbors to put their trash in a can with a lid, or put their trash out in the morning, your problem would be solved.

I know it’s annoying, but maybe making a sign or leave a note for your neighbors to see that clues them into the fact that it’s animals who are tearing open the bags to get their food scraps. I know that they should know better, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t ever think about it. Maybe hoping that they would do something different after finding out is naive, but I doubt they wanna be stepping over tons of trash outside their own building every day. Hopefully.

Temple was founded as a night school to help poor people get college degrees, only in the last 30 or 40 years has it expanded to be a large university. Temple has expanded its campus through a significant chunk of North Central and has displaced thousands and created a rent bubble in the neighborhood. The school doesn't provide enough housing for students, and many live off campus. Temple has a responsibility, written or not, to ensure they at least provide some benefits for north central and giving them access to 1 indoor food court is the least they can do. They dont even allow memberships to the library which is absurd every single liberary, university or not, should allow the general public memberships to access the extensive amount of material they otherwise may not be able to get. It's not like the students don't cause trouble either. Just during the eagles game a month ago, they flipped a car a few blocks off campus.

Yesterday everyone was saying Septa should install new systems to stop fare jumpers. Now most of the posts are either saying it won’t work or it costs too much. No pleasing Reddit

Nobody seems to be pointing out that the city is ending this because of a union grievance. The city tried something new to solve a real problem and the union used its contract/the law to block it. Please share the blame and recognize that in some cases the union’s interest don’t align with residents’ interests.

The 76ers could/should pivot in this direction. They could be pioneers championing an unprecedented investment in a community that is STARVING for economic opportunities. It would be a ricochet effect improving North Philly commercial corridors, bring different and new people to the community, and neighborhoods could be built outward from the arena (east of the arena is fishtown/Kensington, West of arena is brewerytown/Fairmount, etc). I would be okay if city/state officials subsidized a revitalization project like an arena in North Philly, it’s a community that desperately needs investment, good paying and sustainable jobs. Imagine if the 76ers committed to this and in return, they provide youth sports & recreation facilitiesx academic centers, etc. for youth in that area or the entire city, and the city/state in return tax abate them or some other form of subsidy. This whole market East debacle is just a huge missed opportunity from Black leaders who pretend to “champion” pro-Black agendas like this press conference, but then say nothing about the disenfranchisement of the communities they pretend to advocate for.

Temple is causing a lot of gentrification within a very poor local community and the idea is if temple is going to exist in North Central Philly and expand it needs to help the local community that it was initially started to serve. Temple was founded as a night school for people who couldn't afford to go to university and only within the last 30ish years became a large university. With that a lot of rents are being driven up because Temple doest guarantee on campus housing for its students. It prioritizes freshman and even then some people aren't able to get dorms. So a significant majority of the students live in rentals off campus, which is causing a lot of displacement. The least they could do is let the community access an incredibly small portion of the amenities they build for students

Thanks for the clarification. Just out of curiosity, do you know what the rational is to allow this food court to be open to the general public?

Temple isn’t responsible for the local neighborhood, though. It is a relatively affordable university giving jobs, a clean subway station, and the third largest police force in the state to the community, plus guaranteed customers every single year. I don’t think the dozens of food carts, local shops, or fresh grocer grocery store would be there (or be there in that quantity) if there weren’t 40k customers at Temple, do you?

The university has been around for well over 100 years, so everyone living near Temple chose to live there. Temple didn’t just buy the lot next door over night.

If the neighborhoods around Temple need more resources, they need to find investors or lobby the city. Temple is a university responsible for university students and employees. If you aren’t one of those two things, it really doesn’t owe you anything. If serving the locals helps the students or employees, then that’s great, but if giving locals access hurts the students or employees, then the right thing for Temple to do is exclude them. Put your own mask on before helping others.

Penn does this.

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We have similar policies. This is a food court on broad street that contains a chickfila, panda express and a Starbucks lol it just happens to be located right beneath the actual dining hall that only students have access to.

My Asian hubby agrees with you 100%.

I mean, that sounds pretty entitled. temple did decide to expand their campus in a poor neighborhood, not build enough student hous8ng so students rent up a lot of the housing stock driving a lot of people out of the neighborhood, the least they could do, the Least, is allow public access to a food court. It's not a dinning hall, you are not directly paying the school to eat in there it should be given public access

well, used to be club Egypt. And back in the day the entire sales office for a company I worked for was fire for downloading too much pornography. They were in that building. So it’s pretty historical.

>It’s half assed.

It's realistic, unlike

>A 76ers arena in north Philly

well that’s how you sell it but they are not looking to North Philadelphia or the waterfront or anywhere like that. They want their own arena and they want it right in Center City.

That's their narrative but the only thing they want to revitalize is their wallet

The sixers don't give a shit about revitalizing anything, they just want valuable real estate and sales. Im sure they suspect people won't want to go to a neighborhood that needs revitalization to go to other arena uses like concerts. Black leaders may have brought it up but there's no way they'd even consider it especially without subsidy

I wish all the campus food was like this honestly. I’m tired of dealing with locals harassing me inside businesses meant for students.

Are all the locals bad? Absolutely not. Most are probably good people. But the loud minority that harasses students ruin it for everyone else, and when it comes down to their ability to eat at Chick Fil A or mine (a student at this university,) the university should do what it has to to make me comfortable using my facilities.

Now, for completely off campus food or open air ones like food trucks, it’s different. But afaik Morgan Hall is completely Temple, so I don’t see why non-Temple people have any business in there.

That’s weird because that’s been the ENTIRE push behind the whole arena in market East. Either you don’t know what you’re talking about or the 76ers are doing a horrible job marketing their proposal!

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Check out "The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord and it will all start to make sense. Leave it to an essay written by a Frenchmen in 1967 to explain contemporary American life.

The Sixers aren’t trying to revitalize an area they’re trying to move to Center City

Given the hours they're closing are 2-5, it's not surprisingly at all teenagers getting out of school

North Philly is a better location 1000%. It’s centralized to the city and region, public transit oriented, and the community needs a big investment project to revitalize the area.