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Which corner? I wasn’t around back then

Now that it's getting warmer there will be a lot of street festival that local artists will attend and sell work. 2ns Street Festival for example

Compared to what it used to be, it's good. Neighbors who have been here a while say it's good too. Not having check cashing places and strip clubs along your commercial street is a good thing, whoddathunk.

A bit far, but you could try calling Iron Horse Hobby House in Reading - https://www.ironhorsehobby.com/

YankeeDabbler in Bellmawr might

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Moving to lower Moyamensing area soon from the west coast - anything I should know about the area?

yeah those dudes are great. i've gone to a couple local zoning meetings where they have given their proposals for different projects - they always listen to the feedback, even from the old-heads who hate the new projects.

i'm waiting for them to buy the strip club, bare elegance (at richmond and allegheny), and flip it into a dolphin-type club.

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norris square is absolutely going to change, but i don't see it becoming a hipster strip. the redevelopment over that way is too big money.

port richmond has way more of an organic thing going on. it's the same shit that made fishtown pop off 15 years ago. follow the music (launderette // lunar), booze (lunar, tin can bar, donna's, corner bar, bonks), and food (pizza richmond, lunar, nemi), art (tshakeshke, corpse flower, tattoo collective).

my prediction is bare elegance (strip club at richmond and allegheny) gets flipped into a dolphin-type place and that's what makes the neighborhood completely tip.

Thank you for posting this. I remember seeing it as a kid and it was very much a vivid memory.

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Go to the ancient looking fellow with Grey hair, or the guy that looks like a chubbier Billie Mays. The old dude with brown hair is the angry one. I think Aldi-brand Billie Mays is the guy that actually does the repairs.

I feel like a lot of people on this sub really don't know what fishtown was like before 2010 - it absolutely had the same vibe as port richmond in the 2000s (even into the early 2010s). every bar was a locals-only corner bar and if you weren't from fishtown originally, you got looked at like you had a third eye. it was a working class neighborhood for generations.

that said, port richmond not having easy access to the el is an issue. the trolley will help though.

That area is rich with great restaurants, bars, clubs, etc. but it’s pricey (comes with the neighborhood) but buses will take you down into south Philly and the food scene is cheaper and maybe even better.

Cool, thanks for confirming. They did an incredible job on Lunar and that new high rise across the street on Richmond looks great as well. I know a bunch of businesses have spoken highly of them, and I love that they have an office right there on Richmond — becoming even more personally invested in the immediate area.

the barbary also deserves it's credit. when ownership flipped in 2007/2008, it really pushed fishtown as a destination. clubs like that simply didn't exist in philly before that time.

It’s just as dangerous as any other place that creates crowds of drunk people. The shooting the person mentioned started as an argument between 2 groups of drunk people. Go figure.

Edit: best nightlife scene in Philly if you’re into that. I live a few blocks north and get the drunk people walking by in the early morning lol

a frame is absolutely the driving force behind richmond street right now. they are snapping up whatever property they can - revitalizing // redeveloping it and making sure that cool tenants are getting put it. they're doing a great job.

There are height restrictions. See Philly’s zoning quick guide here

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Lamsdale option. A 10 min walk from the R5 station

http://www.henningstrains.com

Yeah it would be better with 0 parking and 140 units