Penn/UCD badmouths this neighborhood to this day. Penn still markets itself
by exaggerating how they singlehandedly waived their magic wand and turned
this "post industrial wasteland" of ten years ago into the heaven-on-earth
we see now. And now, as Ross pointed out, they've even wrote a book about
it. UCD still implies that without them, all that we now see is a mere
mirage that will disappear as if someone pulled the plug on the TV.
As if the neighborhood was a mere abandoned shell, or worse, were full of
residents who were too lazy, or stupid, or both, to do anything about the
"horrible" conditions without the all-knowing Penn there to ride in and
rescue everyone. And as if the same economic changes were not happening in
places that did not have Penn's beneficence bestowed upon them.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UC] Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:34:00 EDT
In a message dated 6/11/07 2:19:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> This post may be your most twisted perspective on reality, yet.
>
Not sure where we disagree here, Liz. I agreed with Ross that people (in
this case, Penn) claiming credit for things they hadn't done has always
been a
problem in UC, and then I said that the best thing Judith Rodin did was
stop
Penn from badmouthing the neighborhood in a way that had been making people
afraid to live here. What part of that do you disagree with? Do you
think she
did something better?
Melani
Melani Lamond, Associate Broker
Urban & Bye, Realtor
3529 Lancaster Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
cell phone 215-356-7266
office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113
office fax 215-222-1101
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- Diamond award for over $8 million in sales, and
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- Top Lister
- Top Seller
- Top Overall Combined Volume
- Top Listing Units by Area
- Top Selling Units by Area
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