When living in Rittenhouse I tended to get my groceries delivered but depending on where you are in the neighborhood the Trader Joe's isn't a bad walk and there are a couple new Giants on the edge of the neighborhood in walking distance.

What's affordable to you? Walkable to all those things generally increases the price but if you don't need a lot of space all of Philly is pretty affordable. Take a look at Washington West, Rittenhouse, Queen Village, and Passyunk. If those are too expensive check out around Callowhill, Pennsport, Norris Square.

Yakitori Boy is where it's at. Google can answer the rest of your questions.

RIP 12th Street Gym and the last racquetball court at an affordable gym in Center City. That place was a fire death trap though and needed to come down.

>Anyway no doubt this will take 15 years to get done, but glad to see it happening

Maybe if it was towers going up but these are only 6 stories and they already have a grocery store tenant. I bet it'll be done next year at latest.

Good luck!

It was also a super easy process to adopt from ACCT when I did about a decade ago, hopefully still the same. Unlike some of the rescues that assume you're there just to eat cats and investigate you like you're trying to adopt a child.

All the local "rescues" get most of their cats from ACCT so I'd cut out the middleman and go there. You'll definitely be saving a life (or taking a bunch if you keep it outdoors so don't do that).

Martin's Meat & Sausage in RTM is my go-to for the finest sausages of all varieties and is extremely accessible via SEPTA.

I did mosquito treatment for a local government during college where we went to people's houses to help with mosquito prevention and untreated pools actually aren't typically a big source because they are big enough to host predators of mosquitos as well. It was always buckets or garbage cans, French drains, bird baths, unused fountains, and other small pockets of water. Definitely good advice to toss a bunch of granular mosquito bits over the fence if your neighbors have those.

>In an order filed Friday afternoon, Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler said the seven articles filed against Krasner, which were approved by the House last month, did not sufficiently show that he’d failed to perform his duties with an improper or corrupt motive, which is required under the state constitution to impeach a public official.

>The practical implications of the ruling were not immediately clear...

>“It seems to me that these impeachment proceedings are based on disagreements with public policy and an elected officials’ discretion,” she said. “And I think that this proceeding could set terrible precedent in the future.”

And it's less white than it used to be. What is your point?

Ironic comment coming from someone who lives in what used to be a nearly all white neighborhood that's been diversified through new development.

>“Gentrification is our number one problem,” longtime Point Breeze resident Betty Buford told Billy Penn in late September, standing with her neighbors at a Save Black Point Breeze rally. 

Anti-Gentrification here appears to just be code for maintenance of racial concentration/segregation based on the name of the organization doing the rally.

> $56 million would only buy 2-3 blocks of a subway line in Center City

The $56M is just to design the line here.

So you claimed I had no academic experience, I gave it to you, and I'm the one waving a diploma around? Fucking moronic. So you have no alternative definition of "inner city" or any reason why it's worth preserving? Super strong case for keeping a neighborhood of suburban style projects immediately adjacent to Center City.

What is your definition of "inner city" then if you're such an expert? Why is "inner city" culture something we want to sustain when it never refers to a prosperous and safe neighborhood? I focused on housing policy during law school, your expertise seems to be Darrell Clarke style NIMBYism.

Lol, "inner city," is just another term for poor and shitty. No one calls Fairmount or Nolibs the inner city despite a similar geographic location.

If you "love" the suburban style projects and trashnados of West Poplar I don't think we'll ever see eye to eye on urban planning . The inefficient use of space there will eventually be corrected like every other Center City adjacent neighborhood. There's already big apartment developments in Poplar and a ton of development along North Broad which will make West Poplar more attractive and valuable enough to densely develop. The projects there have and will hold it back some but they'll be built around like Queen Village or Nolibs and will eventually be demoed or converted. They won't be rebuilt as dense or moved, Section 8 vouchers are a much better solution than concentrating poverty in projects.

>Love the "responding to demand" myth though, that's always a good one. No one responds to demand, they respond to profitability. There's very little demand to turn Kensington into a future condominium graveyard

What's that you said about opinions about places you don't live? I'm in South Kensington and there is massive demand to live here near public transit, world class restaurants and a booming arts scene. And they're building densely for that demand because our neighborhood isn't full of suburban project NIMBYs concerned about keeping their neighborhood poor and shitty.