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'After five years of support from the Main Street program, McNulty said, "the hope is that it will feel like more of a cohesive experience as you go up Baltimore, rather than little pockets of businesses. It'll feel like it's thriving all the way up the street."' Ms. Harte, tossed a few extra comments in this press release for UCD. It gives more of an appearance of balanced reporting to toss in random statements. Hahaha, she certainly doesn't need to look far to find massive distrust of Penn/UCD projects! In 2003, UCD denied using L&I to pressure Baltimore Ave businesses into facade "upgrades" when it was reported in the city Paper. Then, in the Philadelphia business Journal, "the corridor manager" seemed to take pride about this inappropriate use of a government agency. During the mayoral primary, it was revealed that UCD was violating federal law while doing "favors" Now, UCD will pay itself $50,000, and pass out $25,000 favors per year to supporters. Ostensibly, UCD wants to homogonize Baltimore Ave into something like the "Cereality" corridor of Walnut st where upscale businesses come and go. UCD passes out massive favors to upscale businesses like Sugar Hill Bakery. These businesses are targeted as supporters for the BID, Penn's scheme to gain taxation rights to further gentrification without any accountability. Any business that doesn't play along is going down hard as we've seen repeatedly. Penn's unilateral vision about beautification is absurd, (eg. The Hub, Radian, the 40th and Locust artwork, Walnut St). Who the hell told UCD that we want to destroy the long term businesses on Baltimore Ave to get a rotating group of upscale Cereality, Sugar Hill Bakery, etc. facades????? Is this the work of that damned SHCA/UCHS? Glenn ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
