Philadelphia City Council Thinking About Market Street Revitalization

May 19, 2011 4:56 AM

(credit: KYW’s Karin Phillips)

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Long term plans to revitalize Market Street east could get a shot next month with an ordinance before City Council.

“It ought to be Fifth Avenue, it ought to be Michigan Avenue in Chicago.”

Paul Levy, president of the Center City District, says there have been plans for some time to turn Market Street from City Hall east to the Historic District into a better shopping district than it once was.

“What we need to do is build upon what are the strengths there, great historic buildings, places like the former Lits, places like Macy’s and the hotels, but add in a great deal more retail that’s oriented towards visitors as well as Philadelphia residents.”

There have been plans before, as recently as last fall, to allow large-scale signs on the buildings along Market Street East. A revamped ordinance is scheduled to be heard June 7th that will allow large format street signs on properties where owners would make at least $10 million in improvement or renovations.

You can hear Karin Phillips’ interview with Paul Levy in this CBS Philly Specials Place podcast.

Reported by Karin Phillips, KYW Newsradio

Philadelphia City Council Thinking About Market Street Revitalization

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Carolyn

As a life long resident of Philadelphia, who also works in the heart of center city, I would like to see better retail businesses on Market Street also! I hope that the city’s planning commission/developer would try to attract a variety of “LEGITIMATE” retailers and perhaps they would encourage prosperity for the area!!! Market Street was once a booming retail area, let’s strive for that kind of persona!!!
jr

Oh great.. more opining from this so called self appointed CEO of a trash company. Just WHERE is this additional retail going to be? Last time I checked, CC has 1 department store while every other major city has multiple. Face it Levy, Philly’s best was decades ago and it won’t return by spending $10mil on signs. I’m for removing the gallery entirely OR renovating it from the ground up. There’s too much open space where there should be retail. Take the 9th street entrance for example. Just what in the world were the architects thinking when the Gallery was built in the late 70s?

@sheriff. No one needs that type of response. You should be ashamed of yourself

sheriff

Jr, I speak the truth but no one has the balls to say it. They just crawl back inside their cubes at work & then again their henpecked lives at home. Which are you?

NS

Tear down the ugly and outdated Gallery.
Jim Wilmer

More minium wage jobs means more minium tax base. Visitors come and go, but the residents pay for these polititations salaries.