Inga Saffron
@IngaSaffron
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Arch. critic @Phillyinquirer. Author of “Becoming Philadelphia,” 20 years of columns, from @rutgersupress [email protected]
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Joined July 2010
This is more like it. But Philly’s Market East still needs a city and community-led plan.
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Half a happy ending, but still painful to lose another Furness building.
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Where can I donate my tax cut to people who are being kicked off Medicaid?.
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What can we learn from the fact that the two most read stories on last week were about Philadelphia school students forced to wear diapers because of limited bathroom breaks and Jason Kelce rocking a speedo to benefit autism research?.
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When preserving an old Philly bank and building 114 apartments isn’t just about “highest and best use.” If there is left development, this might be it.
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RT @BlvdSubway: On Monday, November 12, 1984, the Center City Commuter Connection opened for business!
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Just like any slumlord, Philly’s government treats its buildings like assets that can br disposed of and monetized. Great story from @maxmmarin on the sorry state of former city history museum designed by John Haviland in 1824.
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RT @amandasoskin: 🧵1/5.Before Philly’s $2B HOME plan passed, @PHLCouncil raised serious concerns:.• $65M/year in debt service.• Competing c….
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Where’s the data? You can’t redevelop vacant property if you don’t know where it is.
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Happy Second Anniversary of no full service bus station in Philadelphia.
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Yes! If the Democrats hope to fight back effectively, they need to start showing video narratives from people who have lost their loved ones, their jobs, their businesses and their dreams because of Trump’s cruel and irrational policies.
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RT @SteveRattner: The World Bank nearly halved its forecast for US GDP growth in 2025, while Europe saw a smaller slowdown and China may se….
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This is ‘70s level slumlord shit. And what makes it especially bizarre is that this is a thrivjng neighborhood.
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RT @rw_briggs: Sorry you're gonna be late to work because a state senator had a bad experience with the former head of SEPTA, in a differen….
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RT @arenella1: Sadly, most Americans have no clue about what is happening in LA. My wife's son was shopping at a Home Depot Sunday when ICE….
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Not surprised, but still incredible that no one at @SEPTA would talk about this.
Thanks to @rcfp, I’m reading records that @SEPTA finally turned over. SEPTA should have told @sixers billionaire owners to GTFOH. #76Place would have cost the cash strapped agency millions of dollars, disrupted service for years and degraded Jefferson Station. @IngaSaffron
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How can you decry gentrification and then reject a thoughtful plan for a modest group of affordable houses?
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Yes, the feud is highly entertaining, but we know it’s going to end with even deeper cuts to crucial government services, a massive deficit and tax cuts for billionaires.
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