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Philly Mag weighs in on the future of Washington Avenue
Flying Kite Staff
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
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Last year,
Flying Kite checked in on the huge changes coming to Washington Avenue
, an industrial corridor in transition. Now a couple of big announcements later,
Philly Mag
takes a look at this key thoroughfare.
Washington Avenue forms the spine of some of the hottest neighborhoods in Philadelphia: Point Breeze, Graduate Hospital, East Passyunk and Bella Vista. It’s also stood as the southernmost edge of greater Center City; a gritty and unforgiving moat of asphalt four lanes wide that makes it oh-so-clear you’re not in Society Hill any more.
Those facts of geography probably make Washington Avenue’s transformation inevitable. In fact, it’s already begun. Center City’s relentless growth has led legions of new Philadelphians to cross the Avenue, and they’re demanding it become, well, a more normal street. They want a Washington Avenue that is less quirky and less chaotic: fewer
pastrami factories
, more purveyors of artisanal charcuterie.
Developers are rushing to meet that demand.
Several
mega
-
projects
are
in
the
works
on Washington Avenue, including
a 32-story
Bart Blatstein
development at Broad Street
that will feature a grocery store, shops, restaurants, 700 parking spaces and 1,600 apartments. Seeking to build on that momentum, city planners want to rezone the western half of the Avenue, much of which is now zoned for exclusively industrial uses.
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Philadelphia Magazine
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