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Originally Posted by agzg
I hope so, too. For such a blighted neighborhood they could really use some positive businesses going in. It probably won't be a Super Target, though - is a Giant Eagle moving in next door?
ETA: Is this part of a gentrification initiative for that area? If so, where will the people that live in Sliberty go?
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It's right across the street from the GE there. There's also a Trader Joe's in the old Phar Mor plaza but it's a really tiny one and IMO impossible to do your full food shopping there - for example, I went there and then had to go to the Bird & get basic things like tomato juice because TJ's didn't have it. The big deal is Whole Foods, which is over in the Circle and actually has to have parking lot attendants because it gets so insanely packed.
In answer to your ETA, I would say yes, and well, that's part of my concern. They're trying to rebrand the area as "Eastside" and trying to appeal to what is referred to as the creative class (or hipsters, YMMV). This explains it better than I can.
http://www.eastofliberty.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoODGpf4ing
The thing is, the Target should have been the FIRST thing to go into the neighborhood (as I said, to replace the Sears and to give the area a general merchandise store other than Family Dollar) but I guess they wanted to wait and see how things would shake out. I can't blame them as a business, but as a person it kind of irks me that they lacked the balls to step up.
ETA: The Rankin bridge is the construction I refer to. It's a pain in the ass.
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