From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:19:21 -0400, Art Clemons  wrote:   
   >Karen Y Byrd wrote:   
   >   
   >> I'm waiting for Street to take responsibility for how well some   
   >> areas of the city are doing. But I don't think it has anything   
   >> to do with him directly. It's more an effect of economic factors   
   >> he has nothing to do with.   
   >   
   >That's not fair Karen, the city has done better than most others in the   
   >past four years, and it has been the emphasis on neighborhoods rather   
   >than downtown that most benefitted the people rehabbing and moving back   
   >in.  The area you're mentioning does have one major need, more parking   
   >or faster public transit.   
      
   If you were to go to my sister's neighborhood of Cobbs   
   Creek, or nearby Haddington, I don't think you'd see any emphasis   
   on those neighborhoods. And I'd bet if you were to travel   
   to S.Philly lots of people there still bemoan how downtown   
   is still getting all the attention.   
      
   KByrd   
      
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